Oklahoma Science Project, Harvard University
founding board member · project lead on computational curriculum
2016 - present
New website at https://www.codescilab.org/
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I helped lead a small team that developed a free educational resource for students in rural areas with minimal education funding. We created programming lessons focusing on scientific applications, which we currently host on our website. We also developed several pilot workshops and partnered with other organizations (such as YES for CURE and HPREP) to run them with high school students and collected and integrated feedback for improvement. These workshops were designed for a wide range of class sizes; in total, we worked with >100 high school students. We also ran a workshop with science teachers, after which their average interest in integrating coding exercises into their classroom increased from 3.4/5.0 to 4.6/5.0. We also applied for and won three Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching grants to support our work.
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Science in the News, Harvard University
lecture series co-director · lecturer · blogger
2016 - 2019
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Science in the News is a graduate-student-run Harvard organization dedicated to promoting science education and engagement in the community.
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Speaker Chair, DayCon: Planet Earth (2017) &
Co-Director, Fall Lecture Series (2017)
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In these roles, I selected and organized groups of graduate student speakers. I also coordinated practice lectures and provided extensive feedback and edits. DayCon: Planet Earth was a day-long scientific conference for laypeople to learn about Earth science and climate change (which ultimately had ~100 attendees). The Fall Lecture Series is an annual 8-lecture series designed for laypeople to learn about various topics in cutting-edge scientific research.
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Lecturer
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Trimming the Fat: What genomics can tell us about obesity (invited talk) (2017) [video]
Small World, Big Data: From online dating to the emergency room (2016) [video]
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Blogger
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Lessons from the Human Genome Project (2019)
(selected for Science in the News' Twentieth Anniversary series) [link] (viewed > 200 times)
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Health Professions Recruitment and Exposure Program,
Harvard University
workshop developer · lecturer · mentor
2016-2019
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From the website description: HPREP is "a high school science enrichment program aimed at recruiting high school students from the Boston area, particularly those from underserved and underrepresented backgrounds, into science and medicine."
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Workshop Developer (2016-2019)
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I developed and taught new one-hour workshop on programming which has now been implemented for three years running (~70 students/year).
Lecturer & Mentor (2016-2017)
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I delivered a lecture on cancer biology to the entire cohort (~70 students). I also mentored a student one-on-one, providing advice on college and summer research job applications.
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Medical & Population Genetics Program, Broad Institute
trainee member of steering committee
2017 - 2019
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I was invited to serve as one of six trainee members of the steering committee for a prominent research program seminar series. We discussed suggestions for seminar series format and speakers to invite. We also hosted and introduced speakers.
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