LUKE BANTIS
Summary
Mission-driven professional with a proven track record at NGOs who leverages expertise in data analysis, communications, and direct service to progress innovative solutions and advocacy for underserved communities. Committed to driving impactful initiatives through strategic collaboration and salient methodologies.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
2
2
Certifications
Work History
Curriculum Designer & Tutor
Learn Thrive Grow Academic Support
McLean, Virginia
08.2023 - Current
- School-based behavioral therapist and curriculum designer.
- Specializes in standardized test-prep and sensory-cognitive remediation with neurodiverse students.
Security Consultant
Mercor
Remote
02.2023 - Current
- OpenAI, as client, requires data generated by LLMs to be parsed and scanned for accuracy and personal and/or business identifiers.
Research Assistant
International Organization of Migration (IOM), UN
, Remote
10.2025 - 01.2026
- Monitored long-term displacement and rights dynamics in Asia-Pacific and East, the Horn, and Southern Africa, including horizon scanning, scenario analysis, tracking signals, and drafting briefs.
Communications & Community Programs Intern
Collateral Repair Project
Amman, Jordan/Remote
05.2025 - 01.2026
- Wrote donor-facing journalistic articles in collaboration with CRP's grants department for CRP's Executive Director.
- Developed and co-taught a chess program for their summer camp to teen refugees and critically-vulnerable Jordanians.
- Remotely fundraised for CRP's fall campaign.
Research Assistant & Communications Lead
Refugee Congress
Washington, DC
08.2025 - 12.2025
- Developed a GIS tool for advocacy and resource mobilization.
- Communications Lead between Georgetown University, Refugee Congress, Refugee Council USA, and the Refugee Advocacy Lab.
Campus Ambassador
The Princeton Review
Washington, DC
02.2025 - 08.2025
- Promoted TPR products through campus events and media campaigns.
Clinician, Tester, & Scorer
Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes
Washington, DC
05.2023 - 08.2024
- Employed sensory-cognitive instruction at a literacy project in PG County and the DC Learning Center.
- Having been trained up as a Tester and Scorer, administered and scored batteries of tests.
Afterschool Tutor
Vineyard App Camp
Washington, DC
09.2023 - 02.2024
- Managed behaviors to create a positive learning environment.
Co-Director of the Field Canvas
Clean Water Action
Baltimore, MD
01.2022 - 05.2023
- Started as a Canvasser and worked way up to Co-Director.
- Fundraised >3 days a week on top of administrative responsibilities.
- Acted as the internal and external point of contact for the office.
- Worked with lobbyists on the public-facing messaging of campaigns.
Education
MA - International Migration and Refugee Studies, Concentration in Humanitarian Practice
Georgetown University
Washington, DC12-2025
BA - International Affairs, Concentration in Conflict and Conflict Resolution
George Washington University
Washington, DC05-2021
Skills
- Data analysis
- Python
- R
- SPSS
- Stata
- Tableau
- GIS
- Microsoft Suite
- Public speaking
- Community engagement
- Technical writing
- Curriculum design
- Fundraising software
- Advocacy strategies
Volunteer Experience
- Volunteer Co-teacher, Collateral Repair Project, Amman, Jordan, 07/25-08/25: co-proctored an English Conversation Club to adult students for a deeper understanding of native English-speaking.
- Volunteer Assistant, Emmanuel Lutheran Church, Fairfax, VA, 01/25-04/25: helped newly-arrived refugee families move into their new homes in Virginia (i.e., assembling furniture and cleaning).
- Co-founder, PJs for Patients, Brooklyn, NY, 09/13-12/21: made and sold crafts to fundraise and deliver cotton pajamas to children who were receiving cancer treatment at hospitals.
Languages
English
Native/ Bilingual
Greek
Native/ Bilingual
Spanish
Full Professional
Arabic
Elementary
Certification
Harvard Humanitarian Initiative - Building a Better Response certificate
Timeline
Research Assistant
International Organization of Migration (IOM), UN
10.2025 - 01.2026
Research Assistant & Communications Lead
Refugee Congress
08.2025 - 12.2025
Communications & Community Programs Intern
Collateral Repair Project
05.2025 - 01.2026
Campus Ambassador
The Princeton Review
02.2025 - 08.2025
Afterschool Tutor
Vineyard App Camp
09.2023 - 02.2024
Curriculum Designer & Tutor
Learn Thrive Grow Academic Support
08.2023 - Current
Clinician, Tester, & Scorer
Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes
05.2023 - 08.2024
Security Consultant
Mercor
02.2023 - Current
Co-Director of the Field Canvas
Clean Water Action
01.2022 - 05.2023
MA - International Migration and Refugee Studies, Concentration in Humanitarian Practice
Georgetown University
BA - International Affairs, Concentration in Conflict and Conflict Resolution
George Washington University