RESUME

PAID EXPERIENCE

Congregation of Tikvat Jacob, Manhattan Beach, CA — Lead Madrich (student leader)

SEPTEMBER 2022 - PRESENT

  • High level of seniority and leadership 

  • Training, general assistance, curriculum delivery, food distribution, attendance oversight, and a number of other roles

  • Started off at volunteer in 2022, hired as paid employee in late 2023

  • 7-8 hours a week–4 on Sundays for Sunday School and 3 on Wednesdays for b’nai mitzvah tutoring and general office work

Torrance Theater Company, Torrance CA —  Program Leader

JUNE 2024 - PRESENT

  • Summer camp counselor and activity coordinator

  • After period of counseling work, contract was extended to include assistance roles throughout the school year for set construction, sound work for band shows, and manual labor

  • Employee of the City of Torrance, which owns the company

  • Started off by volunteering for company and was hired through interview with about 20 other candidates (6 accepted to position)

UNPAID/VOLUNTEERING WORK

Technical Theater, Mira Costa — Volunteer

AUGUST 2021 - PRESENT

  • ~615 recorded thespian hours as of 10/9/2025

    • Obtained International Thespian Society membership in 2024

  • 7 theatre productions at Costa + 3 class productions

    • Won 1st place in Set Design in 2025 Fullerton Technical Theatre Festival competition out of 4 schools; Led a team of 31 students in the construction of the aforementioned set over an interval of five months.

    • Stage Manager for current fall production 

  • 5 different charitable benefits (2 holiday benefits, 2 AIDS benefits, and 1 Fire Relief benefit)

  • Lighting Designer and Board Operator in Senior Scenes 2 years in a row (mentee in my sophomore year → mentor in my Junior year, teaching a mentee how to operate a light board and build cues)

No Place for Hate Committee, Mira Costa High School — Member

SEPTEMBER 2023 - PRESENT

  • Founding Member: led the creation and coordination of this committee

  • Monthly meetings; about 20 hours a year if activities are included (~40 so far)

  • Committee where I work with the vice principal and other students to plan activities and enact policies that eliminate hate and discrimination at Mira Costa.

  • Have organized pledge-signing activities, an anonymous report form for the school, art contests, and a survey to gain data re: the degree to which students felt safe at school along with the amount of hate they encountered (administered at the end of the 2024 school year).

  • Worked with administrators to spearhead a campaign for teachers to input new wording in syllabi against hateful behavior in the classroom; Assisted in the creation of informational homeroom videos on interrupting bias; Took on a large role in running two panelist-style school-wide assemblies on bias (speaking in one and organizing another)

National Honors Society, Mira Costa High School branch — Member

NOVEMBER 2024 - PRESENT

  • Became a member by completing a  20-hr Individual Service Project, which had to be approved and signed off by an advisor and  school admin

Equity, Diversity, Social Injustice, and Inclusion Committee, Mira Costa High School — Senior Class Representative

DECEMBER 2024 - PRESENT

  • Working with teachers to provide student input toward syllabus laws and teacher response to classroom conflicts, and to educate teaching staff about student experiences.

  • Collaborating with teachers and students on a board to shape policies and trainings for teachers (unlike NPFH, which focuses on students)

  • Working in tandem with No Place for Hate Committee for the production of student-led staff trainings on interrupting hate and bias (elaborated upon below)

  • Hosting and organizing two “Interrupting Bias” workshops in which students participated in a fishbowl discussion that teachers could observe and ask questions (one workshop on 5/20/2025 and one on 6/5/2025)

Anchorless Productions, Bay Area — Volunteer Set Designer

JANUARY 2025 - PRESENT

  • 2 productions: SpongeBob: The Musical (Sound Board Operator) and Tangled (Set Designer)

  • ~50 hours so far

  • Nonprofit that puts on productions fully run by special needs actors and buddy actors that accompany them onstage

LEADERSHIP ROLES

Noar, Manhattan Beach, CA — President

MARCH 2022 - PRESENT

  • Elected President in May 2023

  • Jewish Youth Group hosted by Congregation of Tikvat Jacob and based around discussions about present issues + service acts

  • Co-founder of Teen Advisory Counsel → leading the charge to change Noar into a program that makes more of an impact, expanding it to encompass teen activities hosted by the Congregation of Tikvat Jacob and utilizing the teen advisory counsel to create engaging and meaningful activities for Jewish youth

  • Worked with an advisor, Alison, to create the counsel mentioned above

  • Around 30 hours a year (have done it all three years of high school – monthly meetings)

  • Have hosted:

    • Purim carnival

    • Beach cleanups

    • Project Needs (food kitchen) partnership

    • Discussion panels and meetings about current events and identity in the context of them

  • Hosts one teen-based event every month

Restoring Rainbows, Manhattan Beach, CA — Branch Founder

JULY 2024 - PRESENT

  • Nonprofit that collects, restores, and donates school supplies to various organizations (currently partnered with School on Wheels and Salvation Army)

  • Hosted a 3 month long drop-off drive at a nearby synagogue (May 1-Sep.1), an end-of-the-year collection event at Mira Costa High School (lasting the two final weeks of school), two informational meetings, and three fundraisers

  • Operates in the form of a school club, where my club members organize efforts to establish different donation box locations around the town and to make partnerships with different charities

Drama/Tech Board, Mira Costa High School — Tech Secretary

MAY 2025 - PRESENT

  • Oversees planning of events and documenting of Thespian points for Mira Costa Drama/Tech students, assuring hours are accurate to their point equivalents

  • Assists students in obtaining International Thespian Society Membership once they have reached the point threshold to do so

INTERNSHIPS/BUSINESS-BASED ACTIVITIES

Paper Flower Business — Owner

DECEMBER 2024 - MAY 2024

  • Technically still operational – leftover supply being sold through pop-up events and festivals

  • Selling handmade flowers out of repurposed sheet music and book paper

  • 60 flowers commissioned by my school’s drama department for sale as concessions in 2024 musical

  • Sold ~70 at an art fair and through other means

  • Made a little less than $1,000 overall from product sales. (Most materials were repurposed waste, thus material costs were close to zero.)

Berkeley Business Academy for Youth, Online — Student

SEPTEMBER 2024 - MAY 2025

  • ~80 hours altogether

  • Bi-weekly sessions spanning the academic year where I was placed in a team of five that created a business proposal and interviewed over 30 people as a team to develop our model into a realistic business

  • Created a business centered around industrial dehumidifiers for hydroponic farms that, if implemented, would recycle air humidity into hydroponic reservoirs, saving money for our customers and reducing water waste

  • Gained cold calling and interviewing skills (conducted 8 interviews to learn about the hydroponic industry and to gain feedback on my product)

  • Gained CAD skills from designing the product

ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES

Publication — Writing from 2019 to present

2019 - PRESENT

  • Self-published a poetry book (The Strings of Life and Love) through Amazon in 2024 

  • Poems published in PoetSpeak Magazine issue #56 in 2024 

  • 3 poems  – Purity, Siren and Four published in Papercut (a literature magazine run by Mira Costa students) in June 2025

  • 2 poems – Shadows and Friend, featured in an educational pamphlet by Spree Powers in 2024 about abstract art forms.

  • Have been working on-and-off on a number of novels for about 2 years, 2 of which are close to entering the publishing stage

Beach Cities FIRST Robotics Team (Team 294), Redondo Beach — Mechanical Team Member

SEPTEMBER 2023 - JULY 2025

  • Around 120 hours altogether during school year, and ~30 during summers before and after sophomore year

  • Gained CAD skills–learned how to use OnShape and a number of machines (like a laser cutter, CNC, etc.)

  • Led a team in construction of many robot parts and oversaw creation of the robot’s bumpers for the 2024 season

  • Won 2nd in the World Championships in 2024 as a part of a coalition of three teams

Wrestling, Mira Costa High School — Varsity Team Member

MARCH 2022 - JUNE 2023

  • Varsity: advanced to CIF Regional Finals in 2023

EDUCATION

Mira Costa High School, Manhattan Beach — Diploma

2022 - PRESENT

Will graduate from this high school in 2026.

UCLA Extension, Remote — 4 Credits earned

JULY 2025 - PRESENT

Completed Elementary Spanish 3.

MiraCosta Community College, Remote — 3 Credits earned

MAY 2025 - PRESENT

Completed Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management.

Plan to take Physics 1 in Spring 2026.

PROJECTS

The Strings of Life and Love — Published 2024

Collection of poems I published after several years of  writing poetry.

SKILLS

CAD, Canva, Google Sheets, Microsoft Word, etc.

Analysis

Leadership

Teamwork

AWARDS

Scholar Athlete, 2022

Honor Roll 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025.

Scenic Design: 1st Place, Fullerton College Theatre Festival 2025

Certificate of Achievement for Outstanding Theatrical Work in Peter and the Starcatcher (for Costume crew work) and Anatomy of Grey (for hair and makeup work) by the California Educational Theatre Organization in their 2023 and 2024 High School Theatre Festivals respectively

Stage Crew/Technical Execution Winner, 2025 JRAY awards – won as a member of the crew of Bright Star, a show put on by Mira Costa High School

Thespian Scholar, President’s List, 2024-2025

Mira Costa High School Tech, 2024-2025 Tech Award - Gold Level

Mira Costa High School Drama/Tech 2025 Spring Musical “Bright Star” Running Crew Spotlight Award

LANGUAGES

English

Rudimentary Spanish and Russian

Fluent Sarcasm