Professional Overview
Jasmine Chong New York
Intern, Administrative Assistant and Styling Assistant, 2024-2025
Jasmine Chong New York is a slow-fashion brand based in the Garment District of Manhattan, New York.
Avery organized and catalogued the atelier inventory, corresponded with private clientele, stylists, seamstresses, and wholesale stockists, maintained existing filing systems, ran financial transactions, and assisted with creating social media content and writing the brand’s newsletters. She similarly supported private styling appointments and the creation of a new collection, which included coordinating sample trials, capturing behind-the-scenes social media content, creating moodboards and look boards, reconfiguring and dispatching line sheets, and photoshoot styling.
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Parsons The New School for Design
Research Assistant for Assistant Professor Anya Kurrenaya 2025-2026
Anya Kurrenaya’s current work focuses on the intersection between food, fashion culture, and media.
Avery’s research for Professor Kurrenaya included analyzing historical trends and comparing recent marketing strategies using physical archival material as well as online databases for secondary source material. This required utilizing university archives, public library archives, and private archival sources. She created a database which housed collected findings and relevant primary sources and Liaised with Professor Kurennaya on a strategic approach to connect data with present-day trends, creating a master bibliography of scholarly source references and relevant examples.
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Additional Research Assistance
Research Apprentice at the University of California, Berkeley 2021-2023
Professor Brian DeLay, UC Berkeley Department of History
Avery assisted Professor DeLay in the creation of an online database that compiles library data from the global arms trade beginning at the end of the Napoleonic Wars through World War I. She parsed, translated, and uploaded relevant primary source statistics from Britain, the United States, and Germany into an excel spreadsheet system which was then catalogued accordingly to be published in the online archive.
Associate Professor Ryan Brutger, UC Berkeley Department of Political Science
Avery assisted Professor Brutger in his publication of “International Economic Relations and American Support for Antitrust Policy” published in Business and Politics through strategic data collection on media coverage of antitrust policy in the United States and abroad over the course of several decades. She contributed to a large database primarily concerned with antitrust media coverage and collaborated on the creation of an article coding system for use in both online databases and with physical archived materials.