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Kalina Bakardzhieva is a sourcing specialist at SpaceX since December 2023, previously serving as a procurement agent at Boeing from November 2022 to November 2023. Prior experience includes roles as a retail personal banker at Comerica Bank from January 2021 to November 2022, an account executive at The So Cal Group in early 2020, and a policy analyst at the Center for Open Science in late 2019. Kalina also worked as a faculty research assistant at UCSB's Global Studies Department and interned at Worldhealer, Inc., focusing on global awareness. Additional experience includes legislative internship at the California State Senate and teaching swimming as an aquatics instructor for the City of Torrance. Kalina holds a Bachelor of Arts in International/Global Studies from UC Santa Barbara, obtained in 2019.