Graduate student educator

As a graduate student educator, I work with Yale Peabody Education to lead and develop materials for classroom workshops for K-12 visitors and field trips. We work to create content that will engage young learners and promote learning in a hands-on, inclusive manner in the museum. 

Our current workshops cover topics related to evolution and adaptations, evolutionary anatomy, climate change, geologic time, and rocks and minerals, with a focus on reaching science standards for 2nd-8th grade. 

As a director for Yale Science Communication, I work to train graduate students to be effective science communicators. I also help organize our talk series Science in the News (SITN) and Science@Brewery. In these series, graduate students and post-doctoral scholars from Yale present current goings-on in the world of science to audiences at local libraries or breweries around Connecticut. In the past, topics have ranged from popular science like de-extinction to students' own dissertation work in understanding the biophysics of squid eyes.

In the 2021-22 season of SITN, I also participated as a speaker, discussing how dietary changes in humans impacted our brains in a talk titled Brainfood.

Learn more about YSC here!