Overview
Work history
Education
Skills
Affiliations
Further Academic Accomplishments
References
Societies
Timeline
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Emma Silvestri

London

Overview

1
1
year of professional experience
9
9
years of post-secondary education

Work history

Adviser

Citizens Advice East End
01.2024 - 11.2024
  • I volunteer at Citizens Advice twice every week, from 9:30 to 5:30, as an Adviser to provide free legal support
  • The main areas on which I provide help are housing, family, debt, consumer, work and benefit
  • In addition to advising clients on what support from the government they may be eligible for, I also keep detailed records of all my interactions, and engage with third party charities to best help our clients

Caseworker

The Trans Legal Clinic
01.2024 - 11.2024
  • Company Overview: a small organisation which just gained charitable status this summer
  • I volunteer as a caseworker one day every week at The Trans Legal Clinic
  • We offer legal support for trans people covering a range of areas which disproportionately affect them
  • I mainly focus on the practice areas of gender recognition and gender-based violence
  • In the first, I help people through the process of changing their name on a variety of documents and updating their details with respective bodies
  • And the latter has a great overlap with housing, benefits and the police
  • Because this charity is so rapidly growing a large part of my role rests on my own independent research of the law and has made me really keen to pursue a career in it
  • A small organisation which just gained charitable status this summer

Part time Job

UCL’s Hanger shop
01.2024 - 11.2024
  • Working as a team to constantly update the shop to create a better customer experience and raise sales
  • Manning the till with a friendly and warm character

Transition mentor

01.2024 - 11.2024
  • In this role I help to make the transition from secondary school to university easier for first year students
  • I do so by showing them around UCL, giving essay writing tips and general advice

Education

Classics Bachelor’s degree -

University College London
09.2023 - 06.2026

A levels - Latin, Chemistry, Maths

Highgate School
09.2021 - 06.2023

IGCSEs - English Literature, Religious Studies, Biology, Chemistry, Physics

Highgate School
09.2019 - 06.2021

GCSEs - Latin, Classical Greek, French, English Language, Mathematics

Highgate School
09.2019 - 06.2021

GCSE - Italian

Highgate School
09.2019 - 06.2020

Skills

  • Native Italian Speaker
  • Proficient in Office 365
  • First Aid Trained

Affiliations

  • Clothing alteration
  • Painting
  • Designed UCL's Classics Society logo

Further Academic Accomplishments

- Awarded UCL Mark Gretton Academic award (2024)

- Academic Representative: I worked closely with the heads of my faculty to communicate student issues and resolve them. (2023-2024)

- Researched and produced and extended piece of writing on shipwrecks which has been converted into a blog and is currently displayed Maritime Archaeology Trust website. (2023)

- Editor of ‘Kleos’ Classics journal: Collated and edited articles which required strong time-management and organisation skills as well as a keen eye for detail. (2022-23)

- Completed the Open University course on the pre-socratic philosophers (2020):

References

References available upon request.

Societies

- Vice president of UCL’s Classics Society: (June 2024 - )

I am currently the vice president and am working closely with the president to plan the coming year’s events.

- Outreach officer of UCL’s Classics Society (2023-2024): This post required me to speak to visiting and current lectures to set up talks and lectures for the student 

- Sixth- Form Council Chair (2022-23): Worked with pupils in the sixth form to help makes changes in the school’s system. I helped organise an Anti-Sexism Forum and led a talk on the methods of leadership after working closely with my MP showing an ability to lead and teach.

Timeline

Adviser

Citizens Advice East End
01.2024 - 11.2024

Caseworker

The Trans Legal Clinic
01.2024 - 11.2024

Part time Job

UCL’s Hanger shop
01.2024 - 11.2024

Transition mentor

01.2024 - 11.2024

Classics Bachelor’s degree -

University College London
09.2023 - 06.2026

A levels - Latin, Chemistry, Maths

Highgate School
09.2021 - 06.2023

IGCSEs - English Literature, Religious Studies, Biology, Chemistry, Physics

Highgate School
09.2019 - 06.2021

GCSEs - Latin, Classical Greek, French, English Language, Mathematics

Highgate School
09.2019 - 06.2021

GCSE - Italian

Highgate School
09.2019 - 06.2020
Emma Silvestri