Jessica Pham

• Supported National Security Staff to the Vice President on research and administrative tasks.
• Researched East Asia, Western Hemisphere, Middle East, South Asia, and Eurasia for advisors to the Vice President.
• Assisted Executive Secretary team with logistics for VP trips and meetings, including on Asia, Mexico, and Panama.

• Organized information sessions on student and career opportunities with the Department of State (DOS).
• Represented DOS at career fairs.
• Distributed information via email and at international relations events on the structure of, fellowship opportunities, career options, and Civil vs. Foreign Service with DOS.

• Amplified STAND brand-name using social media, blogs, national emails, and news sources (e.g. PolicyMic, Huffington Post).
• Coordinated with Outreach team to train grassroots on media techniques.
• Worked with Education Coordinator to get weekly updates and blog posts and national emails out.
• Worked with Student Director and Advocacy Coordinator to set organization's policy and campaign priorities for the issue areas we work on: Syria, Burma, Sudan/South Sudan, and DRC.

• Oversaw logistics of 15 international fellowships.
• Liaised between SIG and fellowship placement supervisors.
• Connected with faculty mentors for Fellows.
• Organized fellowship outreach and workouts for potential applicants.
• Led team of interns to carry out tasks for each fellowship.

• Planned annual Darfur Fast to raise awareness and funds for cook stoves in refugee camps, preventing rape and sexual abuse against women.
• Executed awareness, advocacy, and fundraising events for Syria, Burma, Sudan/South Sudan, DRC, Rwanda, and Uganda.
• Collaborated with other student organizations and media outlets.
• Utilized social media to raise organization's profile.

• Managed data, summarize, and distribute information on domestic and sexual violence.
• Trained staff in data management.
• Observed workshops on health counselors' empowerment and on HIV/AIDS.

• Collaborated with other human rights NGOs on anti-torture letters to Congress and Obama administration.
• Distributed news on US national security and accountability.
• Represented organization at Senate and House Foreign Relations/Affairs hearings and stakeholder meetings.

• Facilitated "From Memory to Action" exhibition, which focused on contemporary genocides.
• Conducted literary review and monitored news on the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) cases to write a report on the ECCC and the international justice system.
• Prepped for and attended the meeting for the Working Group on the Responsibility to Protect, led by former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.
• Prepped for and attended the museum’s "Voices from Congo" conference, open to the public.
• Monitored news coverage on Obama’s Presidential Study Directive on Mass Atrocities (PSD-10).

• Developed project on ethnic Vietnamese minority experiences of violence and genocide.
• Conducted 13 individual interviews and three group interviews with survivors, in Vietnamese.
• Transcribed 23 interviews from Vietnamese to English.
• Produced reports on ethnic Vietnamese’s lack of Cambodian citizenship and statelessness.

• Tutored Beginning class on computer skills, including operating a laptop; typing; mouse usage; Internet Explorer web browsing; and Word Document.
• Tutored Advanced class on computer skills, including Internet Explorer web browsing; checking and sending emails; axess.stanford.edu usage to check health benefits; course enrollment; and checking wages and paychecks.

• Implemented two workshops in Setrawa Village on general health on sanitation and nutrition, and two on women’s health on menstruation, pregnancy, and menopause.
• Collaborated with ophthalmologist from Jodhpur to organize eye clinic in Setrawa; provided paid-for transportation to Jodhpur and paid-for surgeries.

• Organized and executed “Service Summit” workshops for (1) global poverty, (2) human rights, and (3) environment.
• Organized and executed “Big Problems, Big Ideas” workshops, specifically for Education and Global Poverty and Development.