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UMAMA ISHTIAQ
Aspiration Statement
I am currently exploring different management trainee programs in various companies to see where I feel most fit. At the moment, I am inclined towards pursuing a career in design thinking/human-centered design.
Core Skills
- Research (qualitative, quantitative, and fieldwork)
- Writing Skills
- Project Mangement
- Design Thinking
- MS Office
Experience
Leadership / Meta-curricular
- UNAP President - HU Chapter (2020 - 2021)
- Marketing Director - HUMUN Ill
- Executive Council - Habib Feminist Collective
- Sevasmos Head - Omicron
Internship / Volunteer Work
- Design Fellow - Designist (Jun 2022 - Jul 2022)
- Social Media Intern - Creative Nigari (June 2020 - August 2022)
- Research Intern - Green Colation Pakistan (February 2021 - March 2021)
- Social Media Intern - HerPakistan (June 2019 - August 2019)
Publications / Creative Projects
- Housing Challenges of Young Adults living in Karachi
- Pakistan judicial system influence on our gender performance based on our assigned gender at birth
- Menstrual Hygiene management in Matiari Taluka
- Sanitation and Education: Women of the Developing World
- Colorism and its connection with Body Dysmorphia
Final Year Project
Project Title
Social Capital and Market Failure
Description
Young adults living independently are socially and economically displaced from the rental market. My aim of the research is to explore the market failure i.e. how the real estate market in Karachi malfunctions due to mistrust placed on young adults. I want to explore the structure of conservative societies and how, through social capital, young adults have managed to navigate within structures that don't recognize them as a legitimate market for independent housing. The goal is to explore how conservatism is the source of how market functions and how social capital has been an effective tool for young adults to navigate within structures that are inherently discriminatory towards them.