Undergraduate Program for Advancing Learning (UPAL) Mentor

• Sep 2022 - Present

Supporting and guiding the navigation of 6-8 peers' academic journey at Northwestern by facilitating weekly hour-long group meetings on topics such as stress and time management, study strategies, utilization of campus resources, growth mindset development, etc.

The Social Self Lab Research Assistant

• Apr 2022 - Present

Helping discern ways in which self-concept clarity facilitates optimal decision-making by running 50+ participants, cleaning and organizing 5,000+ data entries.Contributing to the theorization of new Social Psychology concept 'the emerging self' through narrative analysis (of first-year undergraduates’ transition stories for self-learning) and literature review to better differentiate it from other related concepts, such as self-concept clarity, self-expansion, and growth mindset.Coded for insider and outsider perspective-taking in participants’ self-report on relationship conflict to investigate the efficacy of conflict resolution depending on the perspective.

Social Cognition & Interaction Processes (SCIP) Lab Research Assistant

• Jun 2022 - Sep 2022

Coded for colorblindness and racial ignorance in 50+ parent-child conversations to understand how children think about, interact with, and talk about other groups of people who are different from them.

Editor-in-Chief

• Apr 2020 - May 2021

Published monthly physical issues and weekly electronic articles; facilitated weekly meetings and supervised recruiting and training new members, fact-checking, and distribution and promotion of final issues; initiated and merged all campus newspaper teams to improve publication quality and frequency

Head of Copy-Edits

• Apr 2019 - Apr 2020

Staff Writer

• Sep 2018 - Apr 2019

Student Ambassador

• Sep 2018 - May 2021

Led regular one-on-one tours twice a week and facilitated student panels for prospective students; assisted in planning Admissions events throughout the Fall and Spring quarters. Led regular one-on-one tours twice a week and facilitated student panels for prospective students; assisted in planning Admissions events throughout the Fall and Spring quarters.

Research Assistant

• Jun 2019 - Jul 2019

Shadowed pediatric neurologist Dr. Ming Xue, learning about medical research and exploring healthcare practices, for five weeks; conducted more than twenty interviews with her patients (over the phone and in-person) collecting their accounts on the familial burden of raising children with Autism Spectrum Disorder; summarized the neglected burden of these families into seven aspects and published such findings in multiple science journals with another colleague under Dr. Ming’s supervision. Shadowed pediatric neurologist Dr. Ming Xue, learning about medical research and exploring healthcare practices, for five weeks; conducted more than twenty interviews with her patients (over the phone and in-person) collecting their accounts on the familial burden of raising children with Autism Spectrum Disorder; summarized the neglected burden of these families into seven aspects and published such findings in multiple science journals with another colleague under Dr. Ming’s supervision.