Animations to raise funds for Ukraine
In September 2022, I started volunteering for an organization Frontline.live Ukraine. The organization is based around an open-source crowd-mapping platform that helps ensure donated supplies are delivered to displaced and injured Ukrainians.
My assignment was to manage social media content and communication materials. I accomplished that by creating animated gifs to raise funds and increase the urgency.






Art + Climate Action
In my last semester at Lehigh University, I wrote a research paper on how art is changing people's behaviors and empowering the community to climate action.
I looked at 3 international artists who are using their skills in visual communication to accelerate learning and motivate the public to climate action.
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1. Olafur Eliasson
2. Zaria Forman
3. Xavier Cortada
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Feel free to read my research paper and share your thoughts!
Activism through art
The research paper above spurred my creativity and made me wonder how I can express my thoughts and frustrations through art. During this time, I lived in the US during the COVID-19 pandemic, BLM protests, continuing gun violence, and climate crisis. Here is my art piece titled American Society.

The art piece contains multiple parts:
1. Parents teach their kids (the next generation) how to use guns, which creates a never-ending cycle of gun violence.
2. Children's hands (politician's hands) covering our eyes at the current state of the country and world.
3. Microplastic was found in unborn babies, so I tried to represent that with plastic bottles on the face, portraying how plastic is part of us or in us.
I understand that this piece shows a very bleak and pessimistic future and puts a critical view of the US. This is how I was feeling as a foreigner living in the US during the pandemic surrounded by rising COVID deaths, gun violence, and attention-grabbing media.
Hackathon for social impact using open data
On December 15th and 16th, we organized our first Klub Ada Hackathon for Social Impact using open data.
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Accomplishments from the event:
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40 participants developed a socially impactful solution using open data in 24 hours
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20 mentors came to help steer the teams
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6 sponsors helped fund the hackathon (Outbrain, Celtra, OUTFIT7, infinCUBE, tretton37, and Sportradar)
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50/50 women to men attendance, which emphasized our commitment to creating a community to empower women to excel in technology careers
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Solutions spanned from optimizing household electricity consumption to developing flood alerts, creating heatmaps for optimal housing, and even designing playground locators for families.