My Writing

First-Generation Participation in Professional Organizations at Higher Education Institutions: A Qualitative Research Study Using Social Capital and Bioecological Systems.

Argues that institutional opportunity structures, not individual choice, are the primary driver of inequity in first-generation students' access to professional and career-oriented organizations. Based on semi-structured interviews with first-generation UVA students, analyzed through Bronfenbrenner's bioecological systems theory and Putnam's social capital framework. Finding: awareness shapes access, access shapes engagement, and the institutional exosystem controls all three.

ESG and Public Sentiment Analysis for Predicting Short-Term Stock Movement.

Tests whether AI can predict next-day stock-price movement from environmental, social, and governance sentiment extracted from financial news. Uses FinBERT for sentiment, fed into Logistic Regression and XGBoost models alongside market data. The approach is limited in predicting short-term movement but may be helpful in longer-term prediction.

HoosHub: Enhancing Student Organization through a Centralized CIO Web Application.

A team project developing a centralized application to unify club discovery, communication, and management for UVA's Contracted Independent Organizations. HoosHub lets students browse and join clubs, RSVP to events, and engage through a single interface, while giving CIO leaders tools to manage pages, post announcements, and handle membership. Built with React Native, NodeJS, Firebase, and AWS S3.

Publishing a Website with GitHub Pages + Cloudflare DNS/SSL.

A step-by-step walkthrough for deploying a site on GitHub Pages with a custom domain through Cloudflare. Covers domain purchase, DNS configuration (A records and CNAME), SSL/TLS settings, and the common places things go wrong.

Destiny's Champion: a fantasy novel in two unlikely threads.

A fantasy novel weaving together two storylines. Asher, a seventeen-year-old villager whose life is shattered when monstrous beasts destroy his home, guided onward by a mysterious figure with yellow eyes. Lillian, a princess of the wealthy Kingdom of Adesh, thrust into grueling survival training in a sacred oasis. Set in a world where nine gods once ruled, their disappearance leaving behind fractured kingdoms and stories of civil wars between divine sisters.

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