As a high school student, Claire serves as an International Student Ambassador as well as President of the Southeast Asian Society. In Spring of 2024, Claire won a Norton Fellowship, a prestigious grant awarded to a select group of students where she designed a program to teach English and Math to children of migrant laborers in Bangkok. 

 

In summer 2024, as part of her fellowship, Claire worked with migrant workers in a construction site. Here, she witnessed
squalid living conditions. People were living in crowded shipping containers that in the hot and humid Bangkok summers turn into ovens. Claire immediately collaborated with site managers and workers to document these poor conditions and compiled recommendations for improvement.  

 

Even after finishing her fellowship, Claire was haunted by the scenes she had witnessed and the thought of migrant workers having little rights and being abused. As a result, she founded the Migrant Justice Coalition (MJC) to get more people to address these issues and find real solutions for not just this one camp but other migrants in Thailand and elsewhere.