Program Manager, Biodesign Center for Mechanisms of Evolution

• Nov. 2021 - –Heute

Adjunct Faculty, Biology and Natural Resources

• Aug. 2019 - –Heute

Instructor of record for biology and natural resources courses at Tohono O’odham Community College. Duties include, but are not limited to, developing and presenting lectures, grading assignments and exams, and contribute to course and curriculum development. Have taught: BIO105N (Environmental Biology), ANR290N (Wildlife Conservation), BIO298 (Service-Learning Practicum)

STEM Program Coordinator

• Feb. 2019 - Nov. 2021

Coordinate the program logistics and financial management of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Pathways to Indigenous STEM (Ma:cidag wo:g STEM Wui) Grant, worth $2.5M, with the goal of strengthening and transforming the STEM program at Tohono O’odham Community College (TOCC) by improving instructional capacity, indigenizing the science curriculum, and strengthening culturally responsive academic support for students.

Chief Executive Officer

• Jan. 2017 - –Heute

Lead and direct all activities, as well as develop and implement strategic approaches, for March for Science Southern Arizona, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation and expansion of the critical role of science and evidence in our Southern Arizona community through community outreach and nonpartisan science advocacy. Lead and direct all activities, as well as develop and implement strategic approaches, for March for Science Southern Arizona, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation and expansion of the critical role of science and evidence in our Southern Arizona community through community outreach and nonpartisan science advocacy.

Sky School Instructor

• Sept. 2016 - Feb. 2019

Primary instructor for Sky School inquiry-based science education programs. This program guides students in the Tucson, AZ metropolitan area to answer self-developed research questions, primarily in the field of field ecology, using an inquiry-based approach in the Catalina Mountains of Southern Arizona.

Graduate Teaching Assistant

• Jan. 2016 - Mai 2018

Graduate Teaching Assistant for ECOL182L: Introductory Biology II Laboratory (Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Spring 2017) and ECOL450: Marine Discovery (Fall 2017). For ECOL182L I served as the primary instructor, and for ECOL450 I oversaw all laboratory experiences and supervised undergraduate students doing marine science outreach to students grades 3-8 in Tucson, AZ.

Summer Residential Research Manager

• Juni 2017 - Aug. 2017

Primary resident mentor and consulting figure for Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) students and STEM Teachers and Researchers (STAR) Fellows conducting scientific research at Biosphere 2 during Summer 2017. In this position I coordinate research activities, research support, and collaborative meetings to discuss the students’ research projects, as well as provide complementary support in experimental design and data analysis. Although not the primary research mentor for the students, I coordinate the logistics of both programs and directly handle issues not directly related to the science research project.

Outreach Scholar

• Juli 2016 - Juli 2016

Mentored students, both middle school and high school, that came from across the world in developing inquiry-based research projects that they would design and develop during their time at the Biosphere 2. My area of specialty in Summer 2016 was the Landscape Evolution Observatory (LEO), where I guided students through the principles of soil hydrology and soil morphology in order to develop inquiry-based research projects based off of the research being conducted at LEO at Biosphere 2. In Summer 2017 I was minimally involved in a specific research area, but was more involved in the general morning and evening activities due to my Summer Residential Research Manager position that same summer.

Undergraduate Researcher

• Juni 2015 - Nov. 2015

Currently working in the environmental pedology laboratory on soil analyses (including pH, electrical conductivity, loss of ignition, quantitative X-ray diffraction, and thermal analyses) on a variety of soil samples at the Center for Environmental Physics and Mineralogy and the Environmental Pedology lab at The University of Arizona. ** Current project is on chronosamples, which are ancient soil samples ranging in age from 150,000 years to 2,000,000 years old.

Preceptor/Grader for ECOL 320 (Genetics)

• Juli 2015 - Aug. 2015

Assisted in the facilitation of the summer session of ECOL 320, one of The University of Arizona's introductory genetics courses offered through the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. The topics of the course included Mendelian genetics, molecular genetics, quantitative genetics and population genetics. In addition, I graded all homeworks and exams for the course.

Laboratory Prep Staff for ENVS 201 (Introduction to Soil Science Laboratory)

• Jan. 2015 - Mai 2015

Prepared the necessary materials for the University of Arizona’s introductory soils laboratory course (ENVS 201) each week. This ranged from soil morphology, to soil chemistry, and to soil weathering and erosion laboratories.

Preceptor/Undergraduate Teaching Assistant for Introductory Biology Lab (ECOL 182L)

• Jan. 2015 - Mai 2015

Assisted in the facilitation of ECOL 182L, which is the University of Arizona’s second semester introductory biology laboratory course, which focused on the principles of ecology and evolutionary biology. The general topics of the laboratory course were evolution, adaptive radiation, animal behavior, plant evolution, population genetics, and comparative anatomy and physiology. I also served as the primary instructor for the ECOL 182L Makeup laboratory section for the Spring 2015 semester.

NASA Space Grant Intern

• Aug. 2014 - Mai 2015

This project focused on the clay-formation processes occurring at Marshall Gulch, Mount Lemmon, Arizona. It investigated whether the clay mineralogy followed soil solution chemistry patterns (more 2:1 clays in the convergent areas in watersheds) or not, and this was analyzed through quantitative X-ray diffraction (QXRD) and thermal analysis (TG-DTA) techniques. It was determined that clay mineralogy does not follow soil solution chemistry, but rather forms as a result of the parent material. This project focused on the clay-formation processes occurring at Marshall Gulch, Mount Lemmon, Arizona. It investigated whether the clay mineralogy followed soil solution chemistry patterns (more 2:1 clays in the convergent areas in watersheds) or not, and this was analyzed through quantitative X-ray diffraction (QXRD) and thermal analysis (TG-DTA) techniques. It was determined that clay mineralogy does not follow soil solution chemistry, but rather forms as a result of the parent material.

English Tutor

• Juni 2014 - Juli 2014

Assisted in the facilitation of English 101: First Year Composition during the New Start Summer Program in Summer 2014, which is a transition program dedicated to assist incoming college freshmen that recently graduated high school by taking their first college class with peer assistance. To assist in this transition into college, I was an English tutor specifically for New Start that spent class time co-facilitating English 101 by holding writing and grammar workshops for major writing assignments. Also, I held tutoring hours specific for English where I helped students with thesis and argument development, content development, active reading of texts, advertisements and films, literary analysis, rhetorical devices, as well as many other topics directly related to English 101.

Undergraduate Research Assistant

• Sept. 2013 - Mai 2014

Currently, there is no easy, efficient, or accurate way to monitor the aging of leaves during their individual life cycle in a particular growing season. This project, studied only by undergraduates with the assistance of a graduate student, aimed to provide a highly accurate method/model to monitor the ages of leaves of various species of plants by analyzing the spectral and physical properties of the leaves using remote sensing techniques. My own personal contribution to the project was to aid in the collection and analysis of the massive amount of data for this project, which led to the finding that the shrinkage of the leaf (the ratio of the surface area of the fresh leaf versus dried leaf) has a direct correlation with the age of the leaf. This project was most recently (December 2013) presented at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) conference in San Francisco, CA, which is the largest scientific conference in the world.