Ane Alonso Sancho

• Serve as an external collaborator on a Duke IRB-approved linguistics study exploring how bilingual Spanish-English speakers retell culturally meaningful personal narratives across languages.
• Analyze how cultural nuance, emotional emphasis, and narrative detail shift when stories are translated or retold in English.
• Contribute to literature review, data collection, transcription, qualitative coding, linguistic analysis, writing, and editing for an ongoing research paper.
• Collaborate with university-level researchers, developing experience in research ethics, qualitative methodology, cross-cultural communication, and scholarly writing.

Grades 11–12 | 2 hrs/week

• Created an independent online platform providing free IB notes, videos, practice problems, practice tests, and past papers to reduce barriers to academic support.
• Built and maintained the website independently, organizing resources across IB subjects to support student learning beyond classroom instruction.
• Collaborated with IB coordinators to share resources with 300+ IB students at school and expand access to students internationally.
• Used website analytics to track global reach, including 200+ views from outside the United States.

• Assisted 300+ applicants from Texas and nearby states with visa and Spanish nationality services during high-volume consular events.
• Provided English and French support by guiding applicants through procedures, answering questions, and helping organize required documents.
• Managed event logistics, including station setup, line coordination, document review, applicant flow, and material organization.
• Developed experience in multilingual communication, administrative support, public service, and handling sensitive personal information.

• Founded and independently operate a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit that uses oral history to make anthropology more accessible to students and the public.
• Interviewed 30+ elders from varied cultural backgrounds, documenting lived experiences, traditions, migration stories, and intergenerational perspectives.
• Published selected narratives as blog posts and began developing an e-book to preserve elder voices through a student-led anthropological storytelling project.
• Led all aspects of the initiative, including outreach, interview preparation, documentation, writing, editing, and digital publication.

• Created and independently maintain a trilingual blog focused on language learning, multilingualism, and cultural communication for teenage readers
• Published 100+ original weekly posts in English, Spanish, and French, ranging from personal reflections and opinion essays to language-learning tips and strategies
• Promoted accessible language education by translating language topics into engaging, student-friendly content
• Built a growing online readership with 200+ views

• Direct a peer reading mentorship program serving 30 second-grade students, coordinating volunteer schedules, student pairings, and weekly reading sessions.
• Train and manage 30 high school volunteers to guide younger students through reading practice and comprehension questions.
• Developed reading reflection forms for volunteers to track student progress, helping measure a 15% improvement in literacy engagement.
• Provide English and French reading support to struggling readers

• Developed 6+ submissions across critical essay, poetry, fiction, and interdisciplinary portfolio work, demonstrating range across academic and creative writing.
• Transformed independent research on global e-waste trade into a nationally recognized critical essay examining environmental injustice and international power dynamics.
• Earned National Silver Medal, Regional Gold Key, Silver Key, and Honorable Mention recognition from the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards.
• Promoted creative risk-taking among students by presenting my work, encouraging submissions, and helping normalize participation in national writing competitions.

• Translate and revise TEDx subtitles across English, Spanish, and French, helping make educational talks accessible to multilingual audiences.
• Earned the official role of Language Supervisor, reviewing volunteer subtitles for accuracy, readability, timing, and publication readiness.
• Completed 400,000+ words of translation, revision, and amendment across 500+ TEDx talks published or prepared for TED/YouTube platforms.
• Oversee quality control for other translators, strengthening cross-cultural communication and accessibility through precise multilingual editing.

• Selected for a competitive in-person Yale Young Global Scholars program focused on interdisciplinary approaches to global challenges.
• Studied language, culture, global affairs, and research through seminars, lectures, and collaborative discussions with students from diverse backgrounds.
• Worked on and presented a group capstone project, building skills in research, public speaking, teamwork, and cross-cultural analysis.

• Conducted independent research on the global e-waste trade, examining how international policy frameworks struggle to address environmental injustice and unequal power dynamics.
• Wrote and published a 12-page research paper, Transboundary Movement: E-Waste and the Power Dynamics in International Trade, in Curieux Academic Journal.
• Evaluated international treaties, trade patterns, and environmental consequences through literature review, policy analysis, case studies, and data interpretation.
• Met biweekly with a University of Chicago PhD mentor to refine research methods, academic argumentation, and scholarly writing.