about Ottilie
a Schwarzman/Fulbright/Coca-Cola Scholar, Ottilie thrives under pressure. Her degree in IT Innovation fused entrepreneurship with technical fluency, a combination that she's applied everywhere from building automation systems at a defense contractor to coaching Central Asia's first international women's lacrosse competition.
SKILLS:
technical >
- Adobe Suite, Final Cut Pro
- Canva, CapCut
- Python, HTML/CSS
languages >
EDUCATION:
EXPERIENCE:
- Won and led a conservation and digital storytelling grant in rural Zambia
- 22 students spent a week learning about National Parks and film production, producing a short film about Kasanka National Park
- Produced audiovisual content translating complex Eurasian geopolitical and policy research for public audiences
- Managed cross-functional operations for high-profile speaker engagements and panel discussions with political and academic leaders, coordinating logistics, media, and on-site production
- Founded and executed the first Asian Lacrosse Games: secured a World Lacrosse Federation grant and coordinated a five-team international competition in Samarkand
- Founded Baby Steppes, a 140,000-follower blog on Substack/TikTok covering politics, culture, and current events
- Collaborated with Silk Road University to develop curriculum for a new M.A. in International Relations
- Managed simultaneous social media campaigns across platforms to promote large-scale campus events for a student body of 15,000, including a 7,500-capacity concert featuring 3 charting artists at Baxter Arena
- Created promotional materials, sizzle reels, and event photography; oversaw ~$500,000 in event budgets
- Monitored high-level meetings and produced materials for permanent archives at Offutt Air Force Base
- Built a JIRA-based automation system that cut issue-checking time by 80%
- Built trust with elderly patients to encourage the adoption of newly developed portable EKG monitors, enabling safe earlier hospital discharge and creating more space for new patients
ACHIEVEMENTS:
- Aspen Ideas Festival Scholar (2019)
- National Security Language Initiative Scholar (Moscow, 2018)
- Jane Street Estimathon Winner (2019)
- Stanford d.school Design Thinking Certification
- Clinton Global Initiative Awardee — built a scheduling system to improve rehabilitation retention rates at the Open Door Mission
Through the U.S. Department of State's Citizen Diplomacy Action Fund, I won and led a conservation and digital storytelling grant in rural Zambia. Over a week, 22 students learned about National Parks and film production, producing a short film about Kasanka National Park.
The finished documentary goes live November 1.
A travel blog exploring the history and culture of the steppe, Baby Steppes has 140,000 followers and is published as long-form essays on Substack and short-form video on TikTok.
A quarantine-inspired, fully online university dating show — I edited episodes for an audience that grew past 50,000 followers across YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram.
Watch Love Campus on YouTube →As an Intern at the Wilson Center, I created media to support the Kennan Institute's analysis of post-Soviet political, economic, and security dynamics.
As Director of Media for the student programming board at the University of Nebraska Omaha, I coordinated, photographed, and filmed campus events — creating promotional material for a 15,000+ student body.
A passion project that I started while taking non-credit classes in university, ottilie.edu is a science education channel on TikTok that spans topics from fire education to ancient art history. It has 111,000 followers and 6 million likes, and I've collaborated with prominent content creators.