Samples available on request.
Hypothetical R21 exploratory grant proposal completed as part of graduate neuroscience coursework centered around the research of drug abuse. Awarded a top grade for the work.
5-minute class speaker draft for University of Chicago's Class of 2020 graduation, reflecting on the college experience and uplifting the graduating class in pandemic times. Finalist.
Fictionalized 13-page account of "The Lipstick Killer"'s life story. The Lipstick Killer is a serial killer believed to be responsible for a string of murders that occurred in Chicago, for which a man named William Heirens was convicted for. This decision has been since contested. Work is based on research and other secondary research articles. Awarded a top grade for the work.
Short 1-page descriptive vignettes inspired by episodes and musings from a temporary residence in Chicago.
In Chicago, a ragtag group of college immigrants are dismayed when they are shut out by their hometowns far and near, while their knocks on the door of the American Dream also seem to fall on deaf ears.
Arden joins the debate team in college as a play to break from the wallflower personality that has dogged her all her life, unwittingly entering a testosterone-laden lions’ den of sorts that she struggles to love and loathe.
Entry for University of Chicago's Radio 24 Competition (2020). Political satire - the President, in a medically induced coma due to the coronavirus, boards a haunted train to seek approval to carve his image on Mount Rushmore.