Curriculum Vitae

Summer Bridge Program Lead Peer Advisor (January 2021 - June 2023)
- Guided 300+ historically underrepresented first-year students through an intensive summer program, offering insights into the social atmosphere, academic rigor, and extracurricular opportunities of a large, public research institution
- Organized eight engaging in-person and virtual events each spring and summer, including outreach activities, panel discussions, and student workshops, addressing students’ concerns and connecting them with available support opportunities
- Individually contacted students via telephone, email, and Zoom and connected them with available learning opportunities to transition into their first year of college with ample support
- Collaborated with a team of 49 peer and professional staff in weekly group awareness workshops
- Worked cross-functionally to support UC Berkeley’s Student Learning Center (SLC) and affiliated programs as needed
- Recognized with UC Berkeley’s Campus Wide Staff Appreciation Award for “going above and beyond what is normally done” and nominated for the Outstanding Peer Advisor Award for “exceptional advising, mentoring, and counseling”
Writing Program Ambassador (June 2022 - August 2022)
- Fostered a warm, courteous, welcoming, and inclusive environment for writers, visitors, and peer and professional staff who arrived at the in-person and virtual Vèvè Writing Lounge
- Greeted and guided writers to sign in and connected them with appropriate services/sessions
- Supported in-person and virtual Vèvè Writing Lounge management during service hours with set-up/breakdown, attended to service/tutor-related questions from visitors, and took note of trends/patterns with writers and tutors
- Performed administrative tasks including, but not limited to, maintaining program usage data, managing the online appointment system and program LISTSERV, and providing support to program professional staff

Service

UC Berkeley College of Computing, Data Science, and Society

Associate Dean of Students’ Undergraduate Student Advisory Board Member (August 2023 - Present)
- Nominated to serve on the Undergraduate Student Advisory Board for the newly established College of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS), convened by Associate Dean of Students Deborah A. Nolan
- Meet monthly with college decision-makers to provide critical feedback on ongoing/planned projects, such as expanding CDSS-affiliated student opportunities and ensuring CDSS’ commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging, and justice in practice

UC Berkeley Division of Undergraduate Education

Vice Provost’s Student Advisory Council Member (August 2022 - Present)
- Nominated by peer and professional staff members at UC Berkeley’s Student Learning Center (SLC) to serve on the Student Advisory Council on Undergraduate Education (SACUE), convened by Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education Oliver M. O’Reilly
- Meet monthly with campus decision-makers to provide critical feedback on ongoing/planned projects, such as reimagining commencement, adapting grading policies, and increasing the reach of student organizations in a post-pandemic environment
- Assist the Student Information Systems (SIS) User Experience (UX) Team with redesigning CalCentral (the platform that students use to view their enrollments, grades, and finances) to be more user-friendly and accessible to screen readers

Leadership

UC Berkeley Undergraduate Political Science Association (UPSA)

Co-President (April 2023 - Present)
- Lead the organization’s planning of events and goal-setting each semester
- Prepare agendas/presentations and facilitate weekly board meetings and organization general meetings
- Delegate responsibilities to other board members and ensure that they are completed
- Build and maintain close relationships with the department’s chair, professors, advisors, and graduate students, in addition to other campus and external organizations
Events/Social Chair, Representative to the Alliance for Civic Engagement (ACE) (April 2022 - April 2023)
- Coordinated all organization socials and professional events and served as the primary liaison for UPSA and the Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science in meetings and events with other student social science organizations
- Met monthly with various organizations to organize projects and discuss progress toward advancing civic engagement and discourse among campus community members
- Hosted the largest Election Night event on campus since 2016, sponsored by the ASUC Vote Coalition in November 2022, providing a safe, non-partisan space for community members to view and discuss the midterm election results and implications
- Improved organization membership numbers by 25% and event attendance by 40% in the 2022-23 academic year by updating promotional materials and adapting the number and types of events to better fit members’ academic and professional interests

Pi Sigma Alpha, The National Political Science Honor Society (University of California, Berkeley Iota Chapter)

President (May 2023 - Present)
- Spearhead the reincarnation of UC Berkeley’s chapter of Pi Sigma Alpha, outlining the organization’s goals and leading the planning of events each semester
- Prepare agendas/presentations and lead weekly board meetings and organization workshops
- Delegate responsibilities to other board members and ensure that they are completed
- Advocate for UC Berkeley’s chapter of Pi Sigma Alpha on the national organization level
- Maintain close communication with the department’s chair and advisors regarding student membership eligibility and scholarship/professional development opportunities
- Oversee the administration and expansion of the chapter’s “Political Science Opportunity Scholarship“ for low-income political science students, the only need-based scholarship housed under UC Berkeley’s Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science

Psi Chi, The International Honor Society in Psychology (University of California, Berkeley Chapter)

Executive Administrator (May 2023 - Present)
- Handle day-to-day administrative operations of UC Berkeley’s chapter of Psi Chi, outlining the organization’s goals and spearheading the planning of events each semester
- Prepare agendas/presentations and lead weekly board meetings and organization workshops
- Delegate responsibilities to other board members and ensure that they are completed
- Advocate for UC Berkeley’s chapter of Psi Chi on the national organization level
- Maintain close communication with the department’s chair and advisors regarding student membership eligibility and scholarship/professional development opportunities
- Build and maintain relationships with the department’s professors, advisors, and graduate students, in addition to other campus and external organizations
- Respond to organization emails promptly and professionally
- Update the organization’s website as needed
Treasurer (January 2023 - May 2023)
- Planned and reviewed the organization’s budget for the semester and spending for each event
- Represented Psi Chi as a UC Berkeley ASUC/GA Signatory and Financial Agent
- Maintained an organized and up-to-date record of all organization financial transactions
- Generated fiscal reports for UC Berkeley’s ASUC/GA and LEAD Center as needed
- Processed all chapter membership dues and fee waivers to the national organization

Political Computer Science @ Berkeley (PCS)

Vice President of Operations (May 2023 - Present)
- Oversee an overhaul of the organization’s finance system
- Secure new funding initiatives to ensure adequate income and maintain long-term viability
- Plan and review the organization’s budget for the semester and spending for each event
- Represent PCS as a UC Berkeley ASUC/GA Signatory and Financial Agent
- Maintain an organized and up-to-date record of all organization financial transactions
- Generate fiscal reports for UC Berkeley’s ASUC/GA and LEAD Center as needed
- Process all membership dues and fee waivers
Data Science Education Team Facilitator (January 2023 - May 2023)
- Guided a committee of six members with little to no programming/statistical experience through learning a fundamental topic/package in data science each week
- Mentored members through individual projects implementing the data science life cycle, from gathering publicly available data to cleaning and critically analyzing the data in Google Colab with Python to presenting their research findings
- Prepared agendas/presentations and curated resources for each week’s lesson
Education Project Lead Research Analyst (August 2022 - December 2022)
- Analyzed risk factors affecting public schools and charter schools in California with public government datasets (using Python, GeoPandas, pandas, seaborn, SQL, and Tableau)
- Compiled research findings into an interactive website and comprehensive legislative proposal
- Produced an easy-to-understand voter guide identifying 2022 general election candidates in California who held policy positions that were most conducive to achieving student improvement and success
- Presented results at the Fall 2022 Berkeley EECS and Research Symposium (BEARS) to an audience of 200+ community members
- Served as the primary liaison for PCS in coordinating logistics with other organizations for BEARS

Associated Students of the University of California (ASUC)

Deputy Chief of Staff (Office of Senator Carlos C. Vázquez) (July 2022 - May 2023)
- Ensured the proper functioning of the 30-member office and assisted other executives and teams with efforts to elevate intersectionality, disability justice, and underrepresented students at UC Berkeley through student government
- Hosted weekly office hours to gather feedback from campus members on how the office could better serve them and their needs
- Published weekly and special Senate reports and presented office initiatives and progress to the Senate every week
Interim Legislative Department Director (Office of Senator Carlos C. Vázquez) (July 2022 - September 2022)
- Supported the Administrative Team in an additional role during the Senate’s transition period
- Reviewed the policymaking processes, bylaws, and rules/norms of the ASUC with office members
- Provided legal advice to office teams and assisted teams in crafting and presenting legislation to the Senate
- Elected as students’ top-ranked Senate choice, our office’s core values concerned intersectionality, disability justice, and underrepresented students

Organizations

Student Association for Applied Statistics (SAAS)

Internal Affairs Officer (May 2021 - Present)
- Contribute to the club’s social atmosphere by planning and hosting in-person and virtual whole-club and smaller house events for 130 members to interact with one another outside of their designated committees
- Perform internal club tasks including, but not limited to, managing the big/little program, conducting member profile interviews, facilitating study group sessions, and designing presentation templates and social media posts (with Google Workspace, Microsoft Office, Adobe Creative Cloud, and Canva)
Data Science Researcher (January 2022 - May 2022)
- Participated in weekly workshops covering advanced techniques in data cleaning, data analysis, data visualization, version control, quantitative and qualitative research, and presentation skills (with various libraries and packages in Python and R)
- Constructed a logistic regression model that predicted whether Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests would or would not occur in a United States locality based on selected demographic features with 77% accuracy, 77% precision, 80% recall, and an AUC of 0.83
- Presented results at the Spring 2022 Berkeley EECS and Research Symposium (BEARS) to an audience of 250+ community members
Data Foundations Developer (January 2021 - May 2021)
- Participated in weekly workshops exploring foundational concepts and tools in statistics, data science, machine learning, and Python programming (with pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn, seaborn, and matplotlib)
- Competed in a Kaggle data science competition on rainfall prediction in Australia, designed to solidify concepts learned during workshops
- Connected with upper-division students to gain professional development skills and resources and learn more about internship recruitment and strategies to succeed academically

Skills

Education
- Academic Coaching
- High School Advising/Teaching
- Peer Mentoring
- University Advising/Teaching
Interpersonal
- Event Planning
- Leadership
- Management
- Organization
- Public Speaking
- Team Building
Programming Concepts/Tools
- Bash
- Git
- Machine Learning
- Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
Programming/Statistical Languages
- Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
- IBM SPSS Statistics
- HTML
- Java
- JavaScript
- Python
- Qualtrics
- R
- XML
Qualitative and Quantitative Research
- CITI: Animal, Biomedical, and Human Subjects Research Certifications
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- Experimental Design
- Qualitative Coding
- Sona Systems
- Survey Design
Technologies
- Adobe Creative Cloud
- Canva
- Google Workspace
- Microsoft Office
- Slack
- Squarespace
- Wix
- WordPress
- Zoom

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Andrew Chen

Curriculum Vitae