About

Reina Mitchell is a passionate full-stack software engineer with a background in political science and public policy. She has over three years of relevant experience and possesses strong organizational and project management skills. Reina is currently working as a Software Engineer at fuboTV, where she specializes in Ruby on Rails and JavaScript. She is also a prolific blogger, and her work can be found on Medium. Reina's passion for politics has greatly influenced her programming style, and she hopes to build more applications that make political engagement and policy issues such as healthcare more accessible to users. She is also a skilled writer and has worked as a Media Relations Intern at Harriette Cole Media, where she updated the company's social media accounts and wrote and edited press releases, blogs, and news articles for sites such as TheRoot.com. She also proposed and implemented the conversion of written works into ebook format. Prior to her work at Harriette Cole Media, Reina worked as a Campaign Intern for the Julie Menin Campaign for Manhattan Borough President, where she initiated phone calls to prospective voters, contributed to the aesthetic design of campaign collateral, engaged in canvassing events personally with the candidate, and compiled and analyzed voter responses to create data infographics of potential voter turnout for the campaign using excel. She also worked as a Policy Analyst for DIS - Study Abroad, where she analyzed current laws in Denmark, Sweden, and Amsterdam regarding human trafficking and sex work, submitted a policy paper on recommendations and amendments to current laws on sex work in Denmark, and went on field study tours for investigative work. Reina's education history includes a Bachelor's degree in Political Science and Government with a Smith College Music Performance Concentration from Smith College, a Tuck Business Bridge Program in Accounting and Business/Management from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, a Public Policy Analysis program from DIS - Study Abroad, and a Software Engineering Immersive program from Flatiron School. Reina's technical skills include Ruby, Redux, AWS, Javascript, SQL, Web, Python, ui, and Frontend. She is a skilled software engineer with a passion for using her skills to make the world a better place.