Katherine Tan
Pursuing BA degree in Social Studies at Harvard.
| Headline: | Club Leader |
| Skills: | Chinese, English, Languages, Spanish |
| Groups: | Infosys InStep Internal Business Plan Competition |
| Interested in: | Growing my group, Helping members of my groups, Meeting new people, Partnering with other groups, Professional opportunities, Sharing my projects |
| Schools: | Harvard University |
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | Harvard College Consulting Group, Cambridge, MA |
| Position: | Nonprofit Case Team Leader |
| Time period: | September 2007 - Present |
| Description: | • Led team of 4 students to assess the market for nonprofit capacity building services for Social Innovation Forum, a venture philanthropy organization.
• Led team of 3 students to develop fundraising strategies for Circle of Women, a student non-profit seeking to build a girls’ school in Afghanistan, which helped the group raise $70,000 in 6 months. |
| Employer: | Harvard Advocates for Human Rights, Cambridge, MA |
| Position: | Vice President of Education; Director of Latin American Advocacy |
| Time period: | September 2007 - Present |
| Description: | • Worked with rest of Executive Board to organize internal development and external educational initiatives.
• Served on new faculty-student task force to develop a human rights study abroad program for Harvard. |
| Employer: | Harvard Undergraduate Women in Business, Cambridge, MA |
| Position: | Associate; Morgan Stanley Corporate Mentorship Program Co-Director |
| Time period: | September 2006 - Present |
| Description: | • Rebuilt and co-directed mentorship program connecting WIB members with female professionals.
• Helped establish and manage partnerships with Travelocity, Monitor, P&G and other leading firms. • 1 of 5 directors (out of 40 total) given yearend recognition for contributions to the organization. |
| Employer: | Community Service/Social Advocacy |
| Position: | Work experience |
| Time period: | December 2004 - Present |
| Description: | Women’s Issues
Mentored 4th grade girls with Harvard Strong Women Strong Girls (2/2008-present) Served as peer counselor on relationship and sexual assault issues with Harvard Response (2/2008-present) Social Activism Co-founded high school branch of Amnesty International (12/2004 – 6/2006) Served 200+ hrs with Commonground Sanctuary community counseling hotline (4/2005 – 7/2006) Helped rebuild a church burned down in Alabama with Alternative Spring Break (4/2007) Provided housing and employment search advocacy though Cambridge Student Partnerships (9/2006 – 6/2007) |
| Employer: | Tractus Asia Ltd., Shanghai, China |
| Position: | Summer Research Analyst |
| Time period: | June 2008 - August 2008 |
| Description: | • Researched and developed strategy for boutique consulting firm that helps US companies invest in Asia.
• Interviewed 11 provincial officials and 6 industry executives for an article on China’s logistics industry published in the journal of the China Supply Chain Council. • Completed 65-slide presentation analyzing opportunities for Washington State to attract greenfield investment from Chinese companies, which formed the basis for Tractus’s long term project strategy. |
| Employer: | Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Research Partnership Program, Cambridge, MA |
| Position: | Research Assistant to Prof. Emma Teng, Burkhardt Fellow at Radcliffe Institute |
| Time period: | September 2007 - June 2008 |
| Description: | • Retrieved, organized, and summarized over 1000 pages of primary source research for project investigating historical attitudes towards Chinese-Western interracialism. |
| Employer: | David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Position: | Harvard University Sponsored Intern with ANDARES Microfinance Foundation |
| Time period: | June 2007 - August 2007 |
| Description: | • Helped craft 3 year proposal to the Inter-American Development Bank outlining support and training programs for the Argentinean microfinance sector.
• Identified key partner to implement the first microfinance training-of-trainers course in Argentina. • Executed and analyzed a survey of 50+ microfinance institutions nationwide with 3 team members. • Assisted with grant proposals to the Ford Foundation, Deutsche Bank, and other major funders. |
| Employer: | Office of Senator John Kerry, Boston, MA |
| Position: | Domestic Policy Constituent Relations Intern |
| Time period: | January 2007 - June 2007 |
| Description: | • Worked closely with state policy director to conduct constituent casework and domestic policy research.
• Facilitated outreach to state representatives and county sheriffs for state-wide conference on crime. • Drafted grant support documents and researched federal funding for community organizations. |
| Employer: | Hill&Knowlton Beijing, Beijing, China |
| Position: | Public Relations Intern with Beijing Olympics and Crisis Management Team |
| Time period: | August 2007 |
| Description: | • Coordinated and wrote team submission to the 2007 Asia-Pacific PR Awards which won award for Crisis Management Campaign of the Year.
• Conducted trilingual media monitoring for the Beijing Olympic Committee and O’Melveny & Meyers LLP. |
EDUCATION
| University: | Harvard University |
| Time period: | 2010 |
| Degree: | Social Studies , BA |
INFORMATION
| Hobbies: | Poetry writing, literary fiction, fashion design, pastel drawing, social theory |
