Sophie Xu (she/her/hers) - Curriculum Vitae (CV)

Aspiring Crypto Researcher Education: Sophomore in Gap Year at the University of Pennsylvania (now a member of the Class of 2026) Intended Major: Computer Science Minor: Data Science Relevant Courses: Introduction to Data Science With R, Calculus I, Introductory Microeconomics, Calculus II, Introductory Macroeconomics, Marketing 101 High School Diploma: June 2021 - Queens High School For The Sciences @York College, Jamaica, Queens NY; Cumulative Unweighted GPA: 100.82% (4.0); Rank: 2 out of 129 students HS Leadership Roles: ARISTA National Honor Society (President); Public Forum Debate Team (Co-Captain); Amnesty International Club (Co-President, Group Coordinator); Asian American Association

(Founder, Facilitator); Newspaper (Editor-in-Chief, Journalist, Graphic Designer) My Motive and Related Experience:

I am currently searching for opportunities to intern in cryptocurrency research since I am passionate about technological and quantitative innovation that leverages my critical thinking skills to generate insights and thought leadership for groundbreaking social surplus. Even though I am inexperienced since I am making this career transition, I make sure to meticulously complete my projects of all difficulties with detail and validity in serving their purpose. I am an adaptable learner who is quick to pick up on any relevant technical skills. Most of all, I believe curiosity and persistence to learn trump all.

I have dabbled in the programming languages of R (from a one-semester political science course in college on utilizing R to analyze politics-related data sets), Python (from my ongoing completion of all the Python courses created by Wall Street Prep), OCaml (from my experience with an introductory computer science course in college), and Java (from my “AP Computer Science A” course in high school).

College Activities:

● Member - Penn Effective Altruism (October 2021 - Present)

● Consultant - Wharton Diversity and Inclusion Strategic Consulting (DISC) (October December 2021): Only non-Board member who volunteered to singlehandedly host a General Body Meeting by presenting slides and facilitating discussions on white supremacist workplace structures; Delivered consultation to a product testing startup to increase their penetration into under-reached segments for membership recruitment; Presented a multi-pronged ideation on piloting a student ambassador program that would partner with geographically diverse universities’ clubs and work-study offices, while reassuring its program quality with UTM parameters and consistent, democratized communication between program coordinators and participants

● Member - Smart Women Securities (October - December 2021): Completed 10-Week Seminar Series on elements of financial literacy (e.g. analyzing stocks, reading and interpreting balance sheets and income/P&L statements)

● Co-Education Chair - Asian [Pacific American] Students Promoting Identity, Reflection, and Education (ASPIRE) (October - December 2021)

● Member - Platypus Reading Society (September 2021 - Present)

● Penn Pay It Forward: My proposal to fund cultural centers and culturally-competent mental health services with $500 was selected for implementation Relevant Research, Volunteer, and Work Experience:

● Online Intensive Scholar - Girls Who Invest (February 2022 - August 2022): Completed the CFA Investment Foundations; Obtained a one-year scholarship from Wall Street Prep to work towards certifications in Accounting, Excel, Python, Financial Modeling and Valuation, Real Estate Investing, Private Equity and Venture Capital, and Fixed Income Markets

● Operations Intern - A Stealth Cryptocurrency Research Startup (July 2022 - July 2022): Was selected to be the sole new intern from a very competitive pool of top college students; Conducted legal research on blockchain and cryptocurrency; Communicated with stakeholders, partners (e.g. venture capital firms), and outsourced assistance (e.g. legal firms) via Zoom, Telegram, Discord, and Gmail; Served as an informal secretary by taking notes that effectively transcribed word-for-word all daily meetings' contents; Organized the team’s Discord and ClickUp; Read and communicated updates in the DeFi space to the team of 8 people weekly; Organized company-wide "friendship dates" to foster a culture of friendliness; Regularly took initiative even as a newly-minted intern to "rock the boat" by speaking up and writing detailedly about important financial or organizational decisions; CEO had outlined a project for me to design an engine that scrapes through all existing DeFi exchanges to organize them better

● Steering Committee Member - Human Rights Educators USA (HRE USA) (August 2021 Present): Elected to serve on the Steering Committee (SC) of a human rights, nongovernmental organization with membership spanning nationwide; First college student to serve (since 2021); Regularly volunteered to be the secretary/notetaker and outspokenly participated in discussions on campaigns and initiatives for teaching Critical Race Theory (CRT) in schools nationwide

● Culturally Responsive Sustaining Education (CRSE) Scorecard Evaluator - New York University (NYU) Metro Center (February 2021 - Present): Deeply discussing and quantitatively evaluating anti-racism present in upcoming NYS exams and curricula for NYS K-12 public school students; Recently quoted as a spokesperson in a report written by the NYU staff activists shedding light on various issues with some curricula we evaluated in 2022; Maintained relationships / continued to build community with nationwide activists and staff whom I have proactively campaigned, led, and publicly spoken with since my days as a high school activist

● Marketing and Graphic Design Intern - Women Empower X (WEX) (April 2021 - June 2021): Closely brainstormed with and advised the CEO, my supervisor, and publishers in meetings on ways to improve how Inclusive, Diverse, Equitable, and Accessible (IDEA) the hiring processes and membership recruitment processes were; Designed graphics for TikTok, Instagram, and LinkedIn posts; Served as a copywriter for posts on LinkedIn and Instagram

● Current Alum, Co-Founder, Internal Communications Lead, Mission Circle Secretary, Advocacy Secretary, Business Circle and Governance Circle Member - Youth Power Coalition

(YPC - 501(c)(3) nonprofit) (April 2020 - July 2021): Advocated for Culturally-Competent Sociocratic Governance Models in Presentation at Sociocracy for All’s (SoFA) 2021 Global Sociocracy Conference — the recording of my presentation was shared in the SoFA forum in 2022 after it sparked further conversation on the lack of racial diversity among SoFA members; Delegated and documented notes with the International Neighborhood Community Network’s Global Children’s Parliament; Reiterated and managed digital collaboration platforms (e.g. Slack workspace and Youth Power Hub, our site); Engaged with local NYC funds that empower nonprofits and weaponize capital to decolonize fundraising, bookkeeping, and management of donor-driven finances from a 501(c)(3) perspective; Collaborated with NYC youth activists from various allied organizations to co-host a virtual strike against an in-person return to schools — especially for teachers — amid COVID

● National Youth Collective (YoCo) Member, Youngest Investment Subcommittee Member Amnesty International USA (November 2020 - July 2021): Served as secretary of the Investment Subcommittee and co-allocated the investment portfolio of the world’s largest human rights NGO; Served as a change management consultant who co-conducted gap analyses and drafted material containing plans for continued youth engagement organization-wide; Brainstormed plans to reform existing governance processes and infrastructure to grow the equitable participation of youth activists; Advised the Chief Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility

(IDEA) Officer on ways to further combat ageism, sexism, and racism within the organization; Served as a project lead in YoCo for AIUSA Board of Directors election reform

● Current Alum / Former Youth Leader and Advocate Role-Holder - Asian-American Student Advocacy Project (ASAP@CACF) (August 2019 - June 2021): Speech on my personal narrative that centered advocacy for Asian Pacific Americans (APAs) was featured by Buzzfeed; Secured discretionary funding by speaking with NYC Councilmembers (“CMs”); Campaigned for culturally-competent mental health services and co-facilitated Advocates’ calls on campaign plans; Testified for mental health services in front of CMs; Presented campaign @Intrepid Museum’s 2020 Youth Summit; Co-founded the Office of the New York City Public Advocate’s Youth Task Force and led mental wellness calls for citywide youth (April 2020-September 2020); Strengthened inter-organizational relationships with IntegrateNYC and Teens Take Charge and served as an informal inter-organizational delegate; Co-designed zine for our 2020 APA-Youth for Equity Symposium (APA-YES) social media campaign; Positive work with ASAP contributed to my acceptance to intern for CACF (June 2021 - August 2021) to transcribe conversations with Asian immigrant parents that collected their feedback for public school learning environments in citywide effort for linguistically accessible community engagement

● Policy Communications Intern - New York State Asian Pacific American Task Force (NYS APATF) (January 2020 - May 2021): Was the sole and founding youth organizer; Documented and facilitated live town halls whose topics included solidarity, COVID relief, and harmful local laws and policies (e.g. the criminalization of sex work); Transcribed the town halls word-for-word onto Twitter; Served as a detailed notetaker and active listener as well as participant for monthly planning and ideation calls with other core and much more experienced organizers (e.g. organizers with Red Canary Song, The Working Families Party of NY, Korean Americans for Political Advancement, etc.)

● Researcher and Informal Team Lead - Columbia University’s Social Science Summer (SSS) Program (July - August 2020): Received a $5,500.00 scholarship; Co-authored a paper on Black and Asian Pacific American (APA) youths’ access to culturally-competent mental health services and co-led research for it within a team of four; Proactively shared external files and resources relevant to the class that I had requested to be and were uploaded onto the class website for accessibility; Took initiative to transcribe all verbal communication in some classes — those notes were also uploaded onto the class website for all to access upon my request

● Intern - Office of Assemblywoman Yuh-Line Niou (July 2020-August 2020): Wrote a proposal to decriminalize sex work; Wrote multiple bill summaries; Compiled press clippings; Wordsmithed citations; Expediently aided a woman who had lost her daughter to suicide by compiling a list of linguistically-accessible local mental health resources

● Navigator / Research Intern - Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum (September 2018 - June 2019): Conducted and presented biochemical research on sustainable bioplastics; Promoted gender equity in STEM and drafted a speech on the intersection of gender equity and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to present as a delegate at the United Nations for their 2019 International Day of Women and Girls in Science Assembly Publications:

● Cruz, David. “Legislators Coming for the SHSAT.” Gothamist, 03 Sep. 2020, https://gothamist.com/news/city-council-hears-plenty-skepticism-nyc-school-reopening-plan

“Sophie Xu, a high school student, testified that nothing would be lost by staying fully remote.

"For every single excuse [given] to reopen, such as the need to combat food insecurity throughout schools, there are healing-based alternatives that do not risk exposure to the virus," said Xu. "One: reach out to under-heard communities in their desired languages to identify educational barriers they've been facing since COVID started. Two: remove blended learning as an option, instead make remote learning more equitable. Three: expand resources such as regional enrichment centers. And last but not least reopen schools only when they have fully met all of the safety and health guidelines, regardless of when that time comes."”

● Parrott, Max. “Legislators Coming for the SHSAT.” Queens Chronicle, 23 Jul. 2020, https://www.qchron.com/editions/queenswide/legislators-coming-for-the-shsat/article_07de9b43- aeb9-5647-9387-9a7237385567.html

“Sophie Xu, a student at Queens High School for the Sciences at York College who works with the state’s Asian Pacific American Taskforce, commented on the high proportion of Asian enrollment in many of the specialized high schools. She said that many families see it as a be-all-end-all because of the many socioeconomic obstacles that they’re up against.

“It’s a no-brainer that some Asian Pacific Americans would conform to society and go by a scarcity mindset to survive in the only way they think they know how,” Xu said.” Non-English Languages:

● Mandarin - Limited Working Proficiency

● Cantonese - Limited Working Proficiency

● Spanish - Professional Working Proficiency

Past Honors and Awards:

● Duke University - Likely letter recipient; Candidate for the University Scholars Merit Scholarship, exclusive to the top 0.2% most competitive applicants out of the 49,555-applicant pool

● Johns Hopkins University - Selected to be among the top 0.06% most competitive applicants out of the 33,236-applicant pool as a prospective Hodson Trust Merit Scholarship Recipient

● Became one of 14 members of Amnesty International USA National Youth Collective(YoCo)

(July 2020 - June 2021); Youngest elected to a four-member Steering Body (January 2021)

● College Board AP Scholar with Distinction Award (August 2020 and August 2021)

● Senior Awards: Attorney General Triple C Award - Certificate for Character; Courage and Commitment to Improving Society; NY City Comptroller Achievement Award (for Academic Excellence while Showing Leadership and Commendable Citizenship); The Council of School Supervisors and Administrators of the City of New York Student Leadership Award; QHSSYC Student of the Year for Outstanding Scholarship (This student receives a certificate, and their name is permanently engraved on the school wall plaque for being outstanding in scholarship); Gold Medal for Excellence in English; National Merit Scholarship Program - Certificate of Merit; Principal’s Honor List (for all terms) -Excellence in Scholarship; Certificate for Excellence in Spanish; Certificate for achieving 100% on the Mathematics Regents; Outstanding Achievement in Chemistry, Outstanding Achievement in AP Environmental Science, and Leadership in Math/Trigonometry (May 2019)

● 1st Place Speaker and 2nd Place Preliminary Team (as a maverick) of Open/Varsity Division at the 2018 March NYC Urban Debate League (NYCUDL) High School City Championships

● 1st Place Speaker (out of 111 speakers) and 1st Place Team (out of 53 teams) in the 2017 November NYC Urban Debate League (NYCUDL) tournament Conference Presentations:

● Throughout my high school career, I had presented self-created speeches, teach-ins, or presentations related to governance, activism, and similar topics at numerous public or large-scale events (e.g. press conferences). This Google document contains the links to all my past self-created presentations:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OQgvN9BpoDF4CutWy19Vr4YbU7wS8TEVuGmu61Vu B3I/edit?usp=sharing

All relevant links are highlighted in yellow — please ignore any non-highlighted words.

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