Teaching & Mentorship

Training, certifications, & awards

Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award

University of California, Riverside, Graduate Division
Awarded in 2017-18 and 2019-20 academic years

Certified Master Tutor, Level III

College Reading & Learning Association International Tutor Training Program (2020)

University Teaching Certificate Program

University of California, Riverside (January – June 2019)
Highly selective, intensive program where participants learn student-centered techniques, design active learning exercises, and deliver presentations on evidence-based practices in pedagogy

Graduate Student Diversity Certificate Program: “Making Excellence Inclusive”

University of California, Riverside (March – June 2018)
Weekly three-hour workshop where participants learn and implement practices to promote equity and inclusiveness in the classroom and at the institutional level

BIOL 301: Teaching Biology at the College Level

University of California, Riverside (September – December 2017)
Graduate level course to increase TA effectiveness in the life sciences

Teaching Development Day

University of California, Riverside (May 2017)
One-day series of workshops covering various topics in pedagogy

ENTOM 3350: Naturalist Outreach Practicum

Cornell University (January – May 2012)
Upper-level undergraduate course on effective practices in informal science education, requiring at minimum seven K-12 classroom visits

Teaching experience

Facilitator for GradEdge/JumpStart NSF GRFP Workshop Series

University of California, Riverside (Summer 2020)
Non-credit eight-week fellowship writing program for incoming graduate students

Teaching Assistant for BIOL 005B: Introduction to Organismal Biology

University of California, Riverside (Spring 2020)
Undergraduate lab, online due to COVID-19

Teaching Assistant for BIOL 161B: Functional Anatomy of the Vertebrates

University of California, Riverside (Winter 2020)
Undergraduate discussion sections

Teaching Assistant for BIOL 163: Evolutionary Ecology of the Terrestrial Vertebrates

University of California, Riverside (Fall 2019)
Undergraduate lab and field course

Teaching Assistant for BIOL 161A: Functional Anatomy of the Vertebrates

University of California, Riverside (Fall 2017 and Fall 2018)
Undergraduate discussion sections

Guest Seminar Leader for EEOB 210: Organismal Biology

University of California, Riverside (Spring 2018)
Graduate seminar

Guest Lecturer for BIOL 5B: Introduction to Organismal Biology

University of California, Riverside (May 2017)
Undergraduate lecture
“Muscles and Movement Part 1: Animal Locomotion”

Mentorship & support roles

STEM Coordinator, Graduate Student Mentorship Program

University of California, Riverside (August 2020 – present)
50% appointment (roughly equivalent to a TA position)
Designs mentorship programming to enhance first year graduate student retention and success efforts across departments

Consultant, Graduate Writing Center

University of California, Riverside (September 2019 – September 2020)

Mentor for undergraduate and high school research assistants

University of California, Riverside (January 2017– present)

Presenter, Graduate Writing Center Workshop: “Applying for Fellowships”

University of California, Riverside (May 2020)

Invited speaker, Physics Organization for Womxn and the Under-Represented (POWUR)

UC Riverside Physics Department (March 2020)
“Broadening participation in STEM by reducing stereotype threat”

Presenter, Graduate Writing Center Workshop: “Writing Concisely”

University of California, Riverside (January 2020)

Mentor, SICB Broadening Participation Mentorship Program

Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (January 2020 & January 2021)

Mentor, JMIH Mentorship Program

Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists (July 2019)

Invited speaker, Graduate Student Diversity Certificate Program

University of California, Riverside (May 2019)
“Mitigating stereotype threat through growth mindsets”

Presenter, Teaching Development Day

“Mitigating stereotype threat through growth mindsets”
University of California, Riverside (May 2019)

Panelist, STEM TA Roundtable

University of California, Riverside (April 2019)

Invited Panelist on Grant Writing for EEOB 265: “Lunch Bunch”

University of California, Riverside; graduate course (April 2016)