vanessa tao

junior at brown university

in the process of 1. creating the life i want and 2. hunting down my next boba

vanessa tao

junior at brown university

in the process of 1. creating the life i want and 2. hunting down my next boba

vanessa tao

junior at brown university

in the process of 1. creating the life i want and 2. hunting down my next boba

what i’m working on

strategy at fountainhead

building and growing the next screenwriting platform

at school

film, theatre, policy, advocacy, entrepreneurship, and community organizations, focusing on experiences, having fun, meeting new people

work experience

whether it's mckinsey or the attorney general's office, i'm interested in shaping the systems, decisions, and institutions that change lives

what i’m creating

writing, usually creative nonfiction but sometimes poetry, producing short films, getting roped into musical theatre, and the outdoors because i'm from colorado

strategy & operations

built ai platform for top-5 bank at mckinsey

created sops for small businesses to transform their processes

manage $30K+ budgets in two clubs at brown

creating fountainhead systems and guiding strategy

creating community

2x'd two chapters at youth-led civics nonprofit by scaling outreach

guided first-year students through orientation and leading two teams at brown

running campus events for several orgs, 100-1k students

built corporate + nonprofit partnerships at united way, national nonprofit

storytelling

writing creative nonfic articles for post-

working on films + musicals at brown

wrote newsletter for state senator, 7k+ constituents

interviewed by cbs on youth mental health

edited scripts for psych2go, youtube channel (11m+ subs)

strategy & operations

built ai platform for top-5 bank at mckinsey

increased EBITDA +20–23% by creating sops for small businesses

manage $30K+ budgets in two clubs at brown

creating fountainhead systems and guiding strategy

creating community

2x'd two chapters at youth-led civics nonprofit by scaling outreach

guided first-year students through orientation and leading two teams at brown

running campus events for several orgs, 100-1k students

built corporate + nonprofit partnerships at united way, national nonprofit

Ran campus events

storytelling

writing creative nonfic articles for post-

edited scripts for psych2go, youtube channel (11m+ subs)

wrote newsletter for state senator, 7k+ constituents

interviewed by cbs on youth mental health

working on films + musicals for fun

side quest of the week

mckinsey conference and kayaking in san diego

favorite media

In Vietnamese, the word for missing someone and remembering them is the same: nhớ. Sometimes, when you ask me over the phone, Có nhớ mẹ không? I flinch, thinking you meant, Do you remember me?

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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

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