DEI Work

Some projects that I have collaborated on include the following:

• Collective for Academic Self-Worth: grassroots organization with a mission to bolster the self-worth of marginalized trainees within scientific spaces
• Develop lesson plans on topics including balancing productivity, goal setting toward intentional growth, and navigating systemic barriers within academia for elevating recruitment and retention in the field of psychology
• Professional education workshop development grant from the Delaware IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (DE-INBRE) for our professional development workshop: "Increasing the Academic Self-Worth of Marginalized Students & Trainees in STEM Research: A Biweekly Seminar Series" (2024)
• Talk at the Society for Improving Psychological Sciences (SIPS) Meeting on "Increasing the self-worth of marginalized students and trainees: A tool for a better, more diverse psychological science" (2022)
• Psychin' Out: grassroots organization with a mission to aid underrepresented aspiring psychologists in breaking into graduate programs
• Graduate Application Mentorship Program for peer-editing materials for doctoral and Master's program admissions and NSF GRFP fellowship awards applications
• Dialogue at the Psych for Peace and Justice conference on "Neurodiversity Inside Psych" (2023)
• Faculty Advisor & Grad Student Compacts: document with a goal to create an open dialogue between faculty advisors and incoming graduate students to reduce miscommunications arising from the unspoken expectancies that comprise academia’s "hidden curriculum"
• Project SHORT: peer mentoring organization
• Graduate application mentoring with personal statement reviews
• Mock interview program

Public Outreach

Some public outreach initiatives that I have supported, to connect scientists with school classrooms, include the following:

• Skype a Scientist: informal classroom talks
• STEM Ambassadors UK: various initiatives
• Letters to a Pre-Scientist: writing letters to STEM pen pals