Academics

Honors Diploma, Class of 2025. Alpine ski racing program; academics part-time in grades 9–10 and full-time in grades 11-12.

Full-time in grades 8–9, part-time in grades 10–12. President of the French Club, grades 10–12.

AP French, AP Spanish, AP Psychology, AP African American Studies

Certificate of Achievement in French Language & Culture.

French Civilizations

English (native), Spanish (fluent), French (fluent; six years of French immersion school).

Second-language-acquisition and CEFR-aligned research for a skills graph that models English proficiency in Jinso's AI language learning system, used by more than 34,000 learners in 19 countries. Author partnership proposals for U.S. Embassy programs in Latin America, lead grant-funding initiatives, and develop internal AI automation tools.

This paper posits a theory for why French remains widely spoken in some former French colonies but not others. Comparing 14 countries across 300+ years of history, I develop a “needs and means” framework to explain how communicative, institutional, and economic needs interact with access to education to shape the prevalence of French today.

https://www.curieuxacademicjournal.com/_files/ugd/99711c_b1ce5c4e2e264ad1a6af325032da5377.pdf. Compares the legacy of colonialism in Senegal and Trinidad & Tobago through the films of Ousmane Sembène and Frances-Anne Solomon, drawing on ~50 scholarly sources and interviews with filmmakers & diplomats.

This study examines whether debris from explosives routinely used for avalanche control at Sugar Bowl ski resort affects soil health and plant biodiversity.

Co-led study at UC Santa Cruz Science Internship Program, IntERPrET Lab, eight weeks. Tested how context steers bilinguals' translations of words with several meanings; experiments coded in PsychoPy. Applicatons in ESL curricula and language learning methods. PI: Daniel Pfaff.

Three weeks with Prof. Dan Edelstein. 10 page thesis on power transitions in the Haitian and French revolutions.

SLIYS I and II, two weeks, studying phonology, morphology, and syntax.

Awarded on work ethic, academics, citizenship, and race results.

Named for exemplary academics alongside ski-racing results

Researched the oppression of African Americans, Chinese immigrants and Indigenous peoples around Truckee, and placed three memorials to enslaved Black people who lived in Placer county.

Instructor for adaptive skiing, climbing, and outdoor activity. Assist with outreach.

Regional team leader. Tutored Haitian and local students in algebra and conversational French.

Trail restoration after the winter season.

Monthly discussions, and the summer camp in 2023.

Two-week programs taught by Stanford and Stanford OHS faculty.

Truckee River United 07 travel team.