Service

I view service as an integral part of being a member of the academic community. I have been actively involved with my department, the university, and the broader academic community throughout my career.

Leadership

  • Canadian Association of Postdoctoral Scholars, VC Operations (2024). In addition to keeping up to date on postdoc related issues in Canada, I kept records and worked on internal policy for CAPS, met with Tri-Agency representatives to discuss new postdoc policy, and developed new questions for the 2024 National Survey.
  • University of Victoria Ambassador for Support Our Science (2023–2024). I organized and led a walkout event attending by roughly 150 members of the University of Victoria community, including the president, advocating for increased funding for graduate students and postdocs from the Tri-Agencies. This was part of a larger National Walkout organized by local representatives across 46 institutions across Canada. Covered by several news sources: CTV, Chek, Capital Daily, Martlet, CBC (National Walkout).
  • Co-coordinator of Respect is Part of Research (2018–2021). I led sexual violence and sexual harassment (SVSH) prevention training for graduate students. This program was the first peer-led SVSH prevention training program for graduate students in the United States, with the goal of creating a respectful, positive working environment where everyone can do their best science. During my time as co-coordinator with Wren Suess, we brought our workshop to four new departments, training more than 60 peer facilitators and reaching nearly 300 incoming graduate students each year. We also organized and led a two day workshop in January 2020 called “How To Start A Peer-Led SVSH Prevention Program”, which was attended by 23 graduate students in physics and astronomy representing 9 institutions across the US. Our workshop was positively received and four institutions implemented RPR in Fall 2020: Ohio State, Caltech, Harvard, and Stanford. If you are interested in starting an RPR chapter at your university, contact me and I would be happy to help!
  • Physics Delegate for the Graduate Assembly (2017–2019). I served as one of three physics delegates for two academic years on the Graduate Assembly, the official representative body of the graduate and professional students, and co-wrote a resolution supporting funding for the mentoring program Berkeley Connect.
  • Co-founder and organizer of the Physics Graduate Student Seminar (2017–2018). Along with Jonathan Liu, we designed this seminar to provide an opportunity for graduate students to present their work to their peers, and to build community.

Committees

  • UVic Biology EDI Committee. Postdoc representative (2024).
  • UC Berkeley’s Coordinated Community Review Team for Sexual and Gender-Based Violence and Misconduct. Respect is Part of Research representative (2020–2021).
  • UC Berkeley Committee on Teaching. Graduate student representative (2017–2020).
  • Berkeley Physics Graduate Admissions Committee. Graduate student representative (2019–2020).
  • Berkeley Physics Graduate Curriculum Committee. Graduate student representative (2018–2019).
  • Berkeley Physics Faculty Search Committee. Graduate student representative (2017).