Outreach

Current Outreach

Expanding Your Horizons Chicago

Expanding Your Horizons Chicago holds one-day conferences for middle school-aged girls to learn about STEM careers through volunteer-led, hands-on workshops. As a member of the EYH Chicago Organizing Committee and the Volunteers Committee (2021-present; currently Co-Chair), I assist in recruiting, training, and managing volunteers for EYH events.

University of Chicago

As a student representative for the Department of Human Genetics, I have contributed to the planning of graduate student recruitment events as well as social events for current students. I am also a student representative for the UChicago Medical and Biological Sciences Alumni Association (MBSAA). I am also a member of the Steering Committee for the University of Chicago Biotechnology Association.

Miscellaneous

I’m signed up as a scientist with Skype a Scientist and have greatly enjoyed sharing about genetics & evolutionary biology through this program! Additionally, I am a part of a team organizing computational biology and coding workshops for Chicago-area high school and middle school students (UChicago Computational Biology Outreach) and currently serve as its Director.

Past Outreach

The GW Undergraduate Review

As an undergraduate student at The George Washington University, I founded the GW Undergraduate Review (GWUR), GW’s first university-wide undergraduate research journal. GWUR is entirely student-run and supported by the office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR). The inaugural edition was pulbished in April of 2018. Serving as Editor for the first two volumes, I worked with a undergraduate student team to develop and implement GWUR’s peer-review and publication processes. During my time as Editor, GWUR also worked to promote education in science communication by launching an online SciComm publication, the GW Scope, and holding a campus-wide event on the topic with speakers from National Geographic and the Smithsonian Institution.

Another goal of GWUR is to give back to the academic community through outreach. As Editor, I spearheaded several initiatives for the support and promotion of undergraduate research opportunities including organizing an undergraduate oral presentation competition at GW Research Days, facilitating workshops with GW Libraries on research-related skills targeted to undergraduate students, and promoting our journal release events. The GWUR team has additionally worked OVPR to develop university-wide initiatives for undergraduate research, including the successful development of an online research opportunities database, GW Research Commons.

Science Fair Volunteering

I volunteered as a judge in the Education for Tomorrow Allicance’s SCI://TECH Exposition Science Fair and Technical Writing competition in 2021 and 2022.

The GW Association for Women in Mathematics

From 2017-2019, I served as Vice President and later President of the GW chapter of the Association for Women in Mathematics.