Hello, I am Lulu! I have a passion for understanding history and building a more inclusive present. When I'm not exploring the newest offerings at Kepler's books or whipping up pancakes in my kitchen, you can often find me teaching crochet classes and leading city youth initiatives.

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Crystal Springs Uplands School
GPA 4.13
SAT 99+ percentile
Honors track for English, Math, History, Spanish, Biology
Completing Global Program for Scholars, with advanced Spanish and French, peer tutoring and foreign language immersion
College-level Credit Courses
College of San Mateo, ECON 100 Principles of Macroeconomics, 2024
University of California Irvine, Gifted and Talented Institute, Independent Research Program, 2024
Pre-College and Summer Courses
Politics, Law & Economics, Yale Young Global Scholars Program, 2024
Economics of Inequality, Brown University Pre-college Program, 2023
Writing on Big Tech, The New York Times Summer Academy, 2023
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Summer 2025
San Mateo County Libraries
Youth Learning and Outreach Internship
Led and facilitated hands on learning experiences in English and Spanish
Conducted culturally sensitive outreach in the community to help reduce summer learning loss
Fall 2024
California State Assembly, District Office Marc Berman
Intern
Supported office operations for Assemblymember Berman, including organizing, promoting, and documenting community events as well as advancing constituent casework related to public agencies
Developed capstone project proposing legislation to increase education access for neurodiverse youth; presented to distinct staff and assembly member
Nov 2024
Poll Worker
Managed lines, assisted approximately 600 voters, and supported same-day registration for over 100 citizens
2023-current
Youth Advisory Committee of the City of Menlo Park
Secretary
Develop agendas, take minutes, communicate with commission members and city leadership about activities that foster involvement of youth in municipal government
Work with other executive members to plan and promote citywide events.
2021-current
Kibop Crochet
Founder & Instructor
Teach youth crochet courses as contractor for the City of Menlo Park Community Services Department
Teach private classes for crochet enthusiasts of all ability levels, including neuro-divergent students
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2024-current
The Gryphon Whiffer, Crystal Springs Uplands School, Hillsborough, CA
Founding Editor-in-Chief
Manage a staff of 21 students as founder and editor-in-chief of the school’s first humor and satire publication.
Edit all articles and train assistant editors; oversee all graphic design.
Work with school leadership to print and promote biannual issues.
2024-current
Student Leadership Fellowship, Crystal Springs Uplands School, Hillsborough, CA
Fellow
Work directly with the Head of Upper School to build a positive school culture through community-wide projects.
2023-2024
Shanti Alliance, Honolulu, HI
Member
Participated in fellowship program promoting diversity, equity and inclusion in independent and charter schools in HI and CA
2019-current
League of Creative Minds (Model Congress and Model UN), Stanford, CA
Delegate
Participated in and recognized at national conferences with Best Delegate, Best Delegation and Honorable Mention awards
Served as Teaching Assistant for Summer program
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2025
Menlo Park Sister City Association
Youth Ambassador to Bizen, Japan
Selected as youth ambassador in Menlo Park delegation to Bizen, Japan. Delivered closing speech at City hall meeting.
2023-current
Magical Bridge Foundation
Facilitate programming at Magical Bridge playgrounds and events to make activities inclusive for people of all abilities
2023-2024
Community Legal Services of East Palo Alto
Translated documents between Spanish and English to support monolingual immigrants access to legal services
2022
Kevin Mullin for Congress Campaign
Completed voter calls on behalf of campaign
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Academics
National Merit Scholar Semifinalist, 2025
National Hispanic Recognition Program, 2024
AP Scholar, 2025
Volunteer
Gold President’s Volunteer Service Award, 2024
Language
Platinum Award, Le Grand Concours (French 1)
Debate
Harvard Model Congress Boston 2023, 38th session of Harvard Model Congress, Boston
Best Delegate Award for Outstanding Performance in the House Energy and Commerce Committee
Dartmouth Model UN Conference 2024
Best Small Delegation Award
Honorable Mention Award in recognition of outstanding performance in the UNESCO committee
Stanford Model UN Conference 2024
Honorable Mention Award in recognition of outstanding performance in the International Labor Organization committee
Harvard Model Congress San Francisco 2024
Honorable Mention Award in recognition of outstanding performance in the House Oversight and Government Reform committee








Research
Presentations & Publications
Poster Presentations at 2025 Western psychological Association
Aghakhani, S., Vi, E., Hedayati, T., Maxcy, J., & Bunge, E. (2025, May 1–4). God bless you TALKO chatbot: User engagement with a chatbot for adolescents with autism [Poster presentation]. Western Psychological Association Annual Convention, Las Vegas, NV, United States.
Manuscript submitted for publication:
Aghakhani, S., Vi, E., Bechtel, A., Maxcy, J., and Bunge, E.L (2024). TALKO: A Conversational Agent to Teach Social Skills to Adolescents with Autism. Manuscript submitted for publication AUT-25-0552.
Maxcy, J. (in press). Satire vs. The State: Political Comedy and State Censorship in the United States, 1776-Present. Journal of Research High School.

Talko manuscript submitted for publication

Talko poster


Talko manuscript submitted for publication

Crystal's Premier Satirical Newspaper
Fiber Arts Portfolio
I taught myself to crochet at age 8 and have not stopped since...


















