Teaching and Outreach

Outreach

From 2018-2019 I served as the outreach coordinator for the Ecology and Evolution Research Discussion Group in which I coordinated a team of graduate student volunteers as well as two paid undergraduate interns. The outreach team held several successful events including a creek walk in a local neighborhood to educate the residents about the biodiversity in their own backyard and what they can do to preserve it. In addition, we partnered with several schools and youth organizations to demonstrate ecological and evolutionary concepts to students K-12.

Teaching

​I served as a peer instructor of several college-level Spanish conversation classes from 2015-2017 during my time as an undergraduate at the College of Charleston. As a graduate student at Florida State University I served as a Teaching Assistant for a Biology lab. In addition, to teaching at the collegiate level, I also have served as a private tutor for 7 years and an online teacher. I have developed 9 courses including a course on how to conduct scientific research.

I am a trained facilitator of the Entering Research Curriculum. I also have formal training in the implementation of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives.

Undergraduate Mentees

Taylor Mogavero

An undergraduate student I mentored from 2018-2019 as she completed her honors thesis at Florida State University. For her thesis, she analyzed satellite data to determine factors that affect vertical movement patterns of the smalltooth sawfish.

Brianna Reynolds

A paid intern through the Noyce SOAR program who assisted in the coordination, execution and creation of outreach team programs, activities and educational materials. She, in collaboration with the other intern, designed a game to explain how human land development impacts the watershed as well as a matching game to explain adaptations.

Samina Fuller

A paid intern through the Noyce Soar program who designed our website, flyers and graphics for our activities and programs. She also served as our videographer and photographer and put together a promotional video to showcase the team and its efforts over the past year.