AGU Thriving Earth Exchange
In 2023, I became a Community Science Fellow with the American Geophysical Union's Thriving Earth Exchange, where I facilitated a project to implement environmental education and mitigate illegal trash dumping. The Thriving Earth Exchange pairs volunteer scientists with community leaders to support community-driven priorities. Previously, as a volunteer scientist with the Thriving Earth Exchange, I worked with community leaders on a feasibility study for expanded renewable energy in Arlington, Virginia.
Mentoring Program for Undergraduates at Scripps
As a postdoc, I worked with graduate students and faculty to launch the Mentoring Program for Undergraduates at Scripps, which is now completing its second year. Modeled after the mentoring program at UW, we pair graduate and undergraduate students for one-on-one mentorship and group events.
ACORN
Inspired by the AGU Thriving Earth Exchange, I co-founded the Actionable Community-Oriented Research eNgagement (ACORN) program within the UW Program on Climate Change to connect graduate students with community leaders in project-based collaboration. Launched in 2020, ACORN supported eight completed projects by the end of my PhD.
UW Program on Climate Change
The Program on Climate Change (PCC) at the University of Washington promotes interdisciplinary collaboration related to climate research and education. As a Graduate Steering Committee member, I launched the ACORN program, and helped coordinate public engagement events like our Spring Symposium and Climate Science on Tap: The Schooner Series, in which graduate students share their climate science at UW and at local breweries.
UW Graduate-Undergraduate Mentoring Program
I co-led our department's graduate-undergraduate mentoring program, facilitating one-on-one mentoring and group events that built skills and community. These events ranged from a department-wide barbeque to a virtual undergraduate research panel aimed at making the research process more transparent and accessible.
