Teaching environmental science and mentoring undergraduates are some of my biggest passions.

I have extensive undergraduate mentorship experience and am an awarded mentor through UC Santa Barbara. In teaching, I have completed pedological trainings including the CITRAL Community of Practice Course Design for Equity and the Certificate in Inclusive Teaching (CIT) from UC Santa Barbara.

Please see below for more information on my teaching and mentorship experience.

I have guided more than 16 undergraduates in independent research projects, internship programs, and as hired research assistants to collaborate on my dissertation. Programs that I am involved in support first-generation scholars and first-generation immigrants to the United States, and I incorporate culturally responsive mentoring in my advising.

Facilitating undergraduate research and success is one of my highest priorities; I provide paid research opportunities, professional development opportunities (such as conference travel), and co-authorship opportunities to my undergraduate students.

In 2025 I was awarded the Fiona and Michael Goodchild Graduate Mentoring Award for my distinguished dedication to mentoring and advancing undergraduate research within the UCSB academic community.

Some of the programs I have been involved with include:

• Early Undergraduate Research Knowledge Acquisition (EUREKA!) Scholars Program (EUREKA! Scholars Program)
• Summer Institute in Mathematics and Science (SIMS) (SIMS Scholars Program)
• Schmidt Family Foundation Environmental Solutions Mentorship Award (Schmidt Family Foundation)

American Geophysical Union (AGU) with undergraduate student collaborator Yibo Liang (center) and PhD collaborator Anna Boser (left) (2024).

I served as the Mentor Leadership Fellow for all STEM undergraduate research programs at the UC Santa Barbara through CSEP, 2024-2025.

I facilitated large workshops for graduate students, postdocs, and faculty on mentorship best practices and developed of suite of practical resources for undergraduate mentorship.

• Access the slides to my workshops and download resources from the CSEP Mentorship Website (CSEP UC Santa Barbara)

I designed an original workshop on conflict resolution in mentorship as the CSEP Mentor Fellow (2024).

• Instructor
• I designed and taught a three-week short course called 'R for Researchers' for incoming first-year UC Santa Barbara students in the Summer Institute in Mathematics and Science (SIMS), teaching coding and fundamentals of data science in R (2023).
Teaching Assistant
• I have been employed as a Teaching Assistant for several masters-level courses in the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, covering subjects in hydrology, data science, and science communication (2020 - 2025).
Carceral Settings
• I have been teaching environmental science and engaging in Community and Citizen Science efforts at Avenal State Prison with Land Together (non-profit). Please see my 'Equity and Advocacy' page for more information (2024 - 2025).

Teaching graduate students at UC Santa Barbara (2024).