Scientific Communication

2021.04.12 How can bacteria influence animal metamorphosis? Science Glass video. SDSU. San Diego, California.
2018.11.10 Invited guest on Chris and Kyle Show Podcast. San Diego, California. 
2018.1.7 Bacteria activated metamorphosis. Science Glass Video. SDSU. San Diego, California. 
2017.6.21 Beacon at Sea: a new way to help corals. SDSU Science Glass Video. San Diego, California. ​

Outreach

LEADERSHIP
VSPA Scientific Leadership and Management Course (UC Berkeley) | 2023
President & Co-Founder Biology Graduate Student Association (SDSU) | 2019-2022
  • Conducted a graduate student climate survey to assess graduate student welfare    
  • Organized a three-part virtual workshop about how to get into graduate school for undergraduate students (2020)
  • Created Slack infrastructure for graduate resources and community within department
  • Organized a financial literacy workshop - Personal Finances for PhDs with Dr. Emily Roberts
  • Organized coffee socials to unify the program areas
Cell and Molecular Biology Graduate Student Representative (SDSU) | 2017-2020
  • Organized the annual Graduate Student Seminar
  • Organized and facilitated new graduate student recruitment from year 2017-2021
  • Served on +10 CMB faculty and College of Sciences Dean search committees
  • Organized the annual Graduate Student Symposium              
  • Organized a program-wide Three Minute Thesis Event
College of Sciences Student Council Undergraduate Research Committee Chair | Aug. 2020-Aug. 2021
  • Developed an undergraduate research ‘match’ program to pair undergraduate researchers with labs of their interest through student and faculty questionnaires. 


MENTORSHIP​
Mentor for undergraduate students in the Rubin Lab at UC, Berkeley
  • Alex Mendez (Amgen UC-HBCU Initiative Fellow) (2024)
  • Abby Wang (SURF Fellow and Rose Hills Fellow) (2023-present)
Mentor for undergraduates in the Shikuma Lab at San Diego State University
  • Alpher Aspiras (MARC and IMSD Fellow), Cierra Chevalier, Jeffrey Jones
    Rosaurio Laxina, Sama Mikhail and Gabriella Salcedo (    2021-2022)
  • Milagros Esmerode, Sara Ito, Jonah Faye Longares & Iman Shaikh (2019-2020)
Mentor for rotation PhD students
  • Morgan Farrell (2022), Andy Fedoriouk (2021), Taylor Darby (2020) and Zachary Quinlan (2018)
Mentor for undergraduate students applying to graduate school and fellowships​
  • ​Picking the right fellowship for you. SDSU CMB Grad Student Seminar (2021)
  • Tips for Making a CV. CHOC Internship Virtual Workshop (2020)
  • Getting into grad school Workshop. SDSU BGSA (2020)
  • CV, Personal Statements and applying to grad school. Women in Science Society SDSU (2017-2019)
  • PhD panel Q & A. (2018)
  • GRFP personal and research statements. Florida Atlantic University (2017)
  • Association of Women in Science (AWIS) Greater San Diego Science Fair Judge (2018)