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📍 Brooklyn, NY
Rotational Product Manager
Recent Columbia University grad.
Passionate about the intersection of policy + technology.
Always learning. Let's connect!
Elizabeth Kyung Merrigan
📍 Brooklyn, NY
Rotational Product Manager
Recent Columbia University grad.
Passionate about the intersection of policy + technology.
Always learning. Let's connect!
Designed and wrote copy for partnership and donor pages for political startup issuevoter.org.
Developed a new strategy for direct sales to high schools and colleges by analyzing competitors and running user interviews.
via Almaworks Accelerator
Launched growth features to acquire new subscribers, increase retention, and decrease churn rate, leading to $10K+ in revenue within the first month
Researched state-sponsored cyberattacks for publication in the Cyber Operations Tracker and authored article on Chinese state-sponsored cyber threat actors for Net Politics
Awarded $3400 grant for independent research project analyzing U.S. allies’ press coverage of Huawei and 5G technology policy. Presented research at Columbia Undergraduate Research Symposium in October 2019.
Reported on student life for investigative features and managed production timelines for team of 8 writers to cover stories on Morningside Heights, Manhattanville, and West Harlem.
🗓️ May 2020 - June 2020
➡ Design at Columbia (Session 1, 2020)
➡ Columbia-Harvard-MIT Accelerator (2020 Batch)
We redesigned office hours for the Zoom era using a wait room and topic-flagging system. We launched our MVP (using Airtable) in Fall 2020.
🗓️ March 2020 - April 2020
Allows shoppers to report safety standards of local stores and inventory updates to their neighbors, as well as register for a specfic time slot.