Corinne Hess

Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science, 3.5 GPA — Berkeley, CA

• Community Organizer

Berkeley Student Cooperative — Berkeley, CA

• Serving as liaison to central office, coordinating required workshops, and writing and enforcing house policies
• Facilitating weekly meetings with all 38 residents to communicate house matters and overseeing manager team

Common Good AI — Washington, DC

• Engaged in weekly collaborative team meetings with fellow students and invited speakers
• Provided feedback on various tools for deliberative democracy including CrowdSmart, Pol.is, and Talk to the City

Share Foundation — Perast, Montengro

• Assisted organizers with small errands and tasks during SHARE Foundation's Digital Rights Summer School.
• Kept minutes during each session and compiled and distributed minutes to all participants.

• Designed a functional RISC-V CPU in Logisim, including datapath and control logic for instruction execution.

• Developed spam classifier by cleaning raw email data (Regex) and training ML models with feature selection and performance evaluation.

• Built a semantic word search engine in Java with custom data structures and DFS-based graph traversal.

• Professional development for queer students including resume building, workshops, and an annual conference
• Large scholarship (between $15,000 and $20,000) granted annually

• Support program intended to serve those from under-represented communities who have had little or no prior exposure to Computer Science
• Met weekly to attend support sessions, engage with professional development opportunities, and learn as a community