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)
