Experience

UCSC Doris Duke Conservation Scholars Program

• United States
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Graduate Student Mentor

  • 2018 - Present



University of California, Santa Cruz

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Graduate Student Researcher

  • Jun 2018 - Present



Project Exploration

• United States
• Primary and Secondary Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Instructor

  • Jun 2016 - Jun 2018

  Instructor of the Environmental Adventures program. Provided high school students a wide range of experiences in environmental science from measuring animal skull features and creating food web diagrams to plant fertilization simulations and pollution analysis.Prepared ~15 students to instruct grade school students in environmental science.



JCC Chicago

• United States
• Non-profit Organizations
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Instructor

  • 2016 - 2018

  After School Homework Specialist.



Student Conservation Association

• United States
• Environmental Services
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Crew Lead

  • May 2017 - Dec 2017

  Pleased to announce my first "post graduation" position. I'm a crew leader with the SCA (Student conservation association) helping young men in the CRED program learn job skills in a number of Chicago Park District sites. A great opprotunity to get outside for the summer, give back to the community and continue developing my own outdoor stewardship and leadership skills!



Ecological Society of America Fellowship at Texas Tech

• Research Fellow

  • May 2015 - Sep 2016

  Fish communities are often used as indicators of environmental quality, and may be especially useful assessors of climate change impacts on environmental flows associated with drought and flood. We used a paired spring-fed river system in the Texas Hill Country to assess drought and intermittent flows effects on fish assemblages in the North (NLR) and South Llano (SLR) rivers.



The Field Museum

• United States
• Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Independent Researcher

  • Nov 2014 - May 2015

  Independent research in herpetology. Two projects. The first looking at possible rapid morphological rapid evolution of Plains Garter snakes and Brown Snake in Cook County. The second researching the coloration of the inner membrane, muscles and organs of west African snakes.



City Colleges of Chicago

• United States
• Education Management
• 700 & Above Employee

• Supplemental Instructor

  • Dec 2012 - May 2015

  Supplemental Instruction (SI) is an academic support model developed by Dr. Deanna Martin at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) in 1973 that uses peer-assisted study sessions to improve student retention and success within targeted historically difficult courses. The SI program provides peer support by having students who succeeded in traditionally difficult academic courses (e.g., Organic Chemistry, Biology 101, Logic) help other students complete these courses. SI is a non-remedial approach that provides regular review sessions outside of class in which students work collaboratively by discussing readings, comparing notes, working together to predict test items, and sharing ideas for improving class material. Courses selected for SI tend to be “gatekeeper” courses for first and second year students—generally those classes that have a 30% or higher proportion of students who receive a “D”, fail, or withdraw (the DFW rate) from the course. Out-of-class review sessions are led by “SI leaders,” students who took the class already and did well. SI leaders attend all class lectures, take notes, and act as models to those currently taking the course. The SI model is used for selected courses at the undergraduate, graduate, and professional school levels, and has been adopted by colleges and universities in the United States and internationally.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supplemental_Instruction



Organization for Tropical Studies

• United States
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Researcher

  • Jun 2014 - Aug 2014

  Ten weeks of field study at a premier biological station in a diverse tropical rainforest, Worked with Dr.Martina Nagy, 3 other mentors and 7 other students to complete an independent research project. Project involved a research paper and presentation. Utilized skills in mist netting, behavioral studies, research ethics and writing.

• Researcher

  • Jun 2013 - Aug 2013

  Kenya straddles the equator and mega-diverse, being world-famous for the “Big Five” and other charismatic megafauna. But a quarter of its mammal species (>100!) are bats, which are known to serve vital ecological roles, including pollination, seed dispersal, and insectivory, and are important to both agriculture and public health. Developed with the help of the National Museums of Kenya and the Kenya Wildlife Service, The Bats of Kenya will detail the distribution, status, diagnosis, and ecological habits of all these species. For such a large fauna, determining species limits is perhaps the most challenging task, one aided by analyses in the field (vocalizations and habits), museum (conventional and geometric morphometrics, ectoparasites), and the laboratory (DNA sequences).Research methods and techniques: Interns will be trained in museum collection management, morphological data collection, specimen preparation, and data analysis. Interns will be taught to analyze their data on species limits and relationships. With access to data on vocalizations and ectoparasite collected in the field, interns will test the existence of cryptic (or currently unrecognized) species in this faunahttp://fieldmuseum.org/about/bats-kenya-assessing-species-limits-cryptic-species



Jewel-Osco

• United States
• Retail
• 700 & Above Employee

• Customer Service

  • Jun 2009 - Jun 2013

  Worked as a cashier, grocery assistant and deli worker.