David Richardson Medal Review Committee, 2025- Present

Optica Ambassador, 2023-Present

• Selected as an exceptional early-career professional to serve as a role model to the optics community

• Led professional development workshops to teach physicists how to think like engineers

Reviewer, 2021- present

• Served as peer-reviewer for several Optica Journals

• Reviewed applications to the Seigman School, as well as the Amplify and Women's Scholarships

IONS Tucson 2016 Conference Chair

• Directed a team of students in event programming, budgeting, and other tasks to coordinate bringing in around fifty attendees from around the world to attend this student conference

• Pursued and received additional industry sponsorships for the event ($44,000 in total)

Conference work

• Session Chair for Astronomical Optics, SPIE Optics and Photonics 2025

Membership Committee, 2026-Present

• Advise SPIE on all aspects of the needs of their members

Early Career Professional and Student Subcommittee, 2024-2025

• Contributed to multiple student chapter resources full of advice on leadership, conference attendance, event planning, and more

Education and Outreach Committee, 2021-2023

• Served as Education Grant review chair, providing oversight into the review process and final funding recommendations to the board. SPIE still has my advice video on writing a good grant here!

Program Committee, 2023-Present

Neil Armstrong Award Nomination Committee, 2023-2024

Scholarship Review Committee, 2022-Present

• Reviewed 30+ applications per year as part of two committees selecting winning students for this highly-competitive scholarship

Neil Armstrong Award Enhancement Committee, 2022

Scholar mentor, 2020-Present

Also I play guitar for the astronauts sometimes :)

Academic Program Student Review Chair

• Led a group of students to create a student survey that gathered key information on academic issues for students to improve the college as part of the site-wide academic program review

College of Optical Sciences Optics Ambassador, 2013-2020

• Served as the face of the college to donors, potential students, and members of industry

Student Optics Chapter (SPIE and Optica Chapter)

• President, 2016-2017

• Vice President, 2014-2016

• Outreach Coordinator, 2013, 2014