Experience

Western University

• Canada
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Doctoral Student

  • Sep 2020 - Present

• Graduate Teaching Assistant

  • Sep 2021 - Present

  Designed tutorials, gave lectures, and graded assignments for a third year biomechanics course titled Biophysics of Transport Systems

• Graduate Teaching Assistant

  • Jan 2021 - Apr 2021

  Instructed and lead first year biology labs



Society of Graduate Students (SOGS)

• Canada
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Peer Advisor

  • May 2021 - Present

  • Worked one on one with students in need of academic support such as supervisor relationships, funding dispute, appeals, and more.• Synthesized common threads of issues among students to advocate to the School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies and the Office of the Ombudsperson and enact change.

• Vice-President Academic

  • May 2022 - May 2023

  • Liaising with School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, Student Experience, the Office of Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion, and the Offices of the President and the Provost to secure immediate financial support for graduate students and standing meetings for SOGS Executives to further discuss graduate student funding.• Championed the Peer Advisor program to reach more students and justify expanding the position.• Organizing the return to in-person programming for the Western Research Forum, allowing our members to share ideas and cultivate relationships with their peers.• Serving on 5 Senate subcommittees and advocated for graduate students from diverse populations, while recruiting and liaising with our graduate student senators to drive change.• Collaborated with the McMaster Graduate Student Association on the resurrection of the ThinkGrad project, an initiative to bring student leaders to tackle national issues.• Worked with the President and VP Finance to reimagine the pay structure of our full- time staff to ensure pay equity relative to the broader non-profit sector.• Oversee operation of the Gradcast, 125th Scholarship, Academic Committee, and the Academic Joint Fund. Show less



Ottawa Hospital Research Institute

• Ottawa, Canada Area

• Research Assistant

  • May 2019 - Dec 2019

  Carried out research in an embryology lab of Dr. Jay Baltz. Duties consisted of mouse sacrifice and dissection, oocyte collection and incubation, and other general lab duties. Carried out research in an embryology lab of Dr. Jay Baltz. Duties consisted of mouse sacrifice and dissection, oocyte collection and incubation, and other general lab duties.