In the fall of 2017, I co-founded A Simple Hello to help bring a face to homelessness in the Bay Area and engage the community in the discussion around it. As Chief Strategist, my goal is to increase the pool of people participating in the conversation by using innovative strategies to bring awareness to the situation and provide easy avenues for people to begin engaging.

• In this position, I used hearings at the CA State Capitol, lobbying, and social media to promote grassroots legislative advocacy to improve working conditions for adjunct community college professors.

• I advertised budget and policy hearings to students and communities across the state to encourage participation in increasing office hours, working conditions, and resources for adjunct community college professors.

• Additionally, I solicited student use of social media and other means of communication to interact with state legislators on specific bills and proposals.

Research Assistant, American River College, Sacramento, CA

Under the direction of Dr. Andrea Garvey, Professor of Developmental Psychology, I studied change processes by examining recorded mother-infant interactions and observing infant facial expressions. Our team presented our work at the 2014 and 2015 Western Psychological Association Conferences.

Principal Investigator: Psi Beta National Psychology Honors Society, American River College Chapter, Sacramento, CA

I served as the Principal Investigator in a collaboration between our chapter of Psi Beta National Psychology Honors Society and their 2013-2014 National Research Project. I led a group of six students under the guidance of our chapter advisors from design to final conference presentation. We researched the interactions between growth mindset, future time-perspective, and subjective happiness through a national survey of college students. We presented our work at the 2015 Western Psychological Association Conference.