Service and Outreach

Every summer, the Center for Climate and Energy Decision Making (CEDM) hosts SUCCEED. SUCCEED is a co-educational program targeting rising sophomores and juniors considering careers in STEM fields and teaches them about energy, the environment and climate change.

For the past three summers, I've taught or co-taught the lesson on the Energy-Water Nexus a capstone lecture that builds off of previous lessons on energy systems, life-cycle assessment, air pollution, and water pollution. For the 2016 iteration, I walked students through the calculations involved in my research performing a life-cycle assessment of flue gas desulfurization wastewater. You can find the materials from that lesson here.

Since Fall 2015, I've been a member of the Call to Action, a group of Carnegie Mellon University graduate and undergraduate students working to make CMU a more inclusive place for students of color. As part of that group, I've organized meta-curricular experiences for students to discuss their experiences at CMU, facilitated discussions on how to improve the CMU experience for our diverse student body, and served as a resource panelists as part a deliberative democracy event on diversity and inclusion at CMU.