Outreach & Service

Outreach

I am involved in several outreach activies to help foster a diverse, equitable, and inclusive academic culture:

• I run AstroReach, a hands-on astronomy education program for high-school students.

  • AstroReach SD is currently running at The Preuss School. I am teaching the first course, Dark Matter & Python, supported by the UCSD School of Physical Sciences.

  • AstroReach LA was held at USC Hybrid High School in Spring 2022. I taught the course Dark Matter & Data Visualization, which was supported by a Carnegie DEI Grant and run in partnership with Create Now, an arts education organization that empowers underserved youth throughout Los Angeles. All course materials are online.

• I ran outreach programs at Carnegie Observatories for local high schools from 2021–2024, including USC Hybrid High School and John Muir High School.

• I was the postdoc and staff representative for the USC Physics & Astronomy Climate Committee from 2021–2024. I developed and analyzed a department-wide climate survey in 2022.

• I was a mentor for Stanford Future Advancers of Science and Technology from 2017–2019. This program enables underserved high school students in San Jose, CA to pursue scientific research projects.

Service

I give back to the scientific community through public lectures, workshops, and peer review:

• I have given public lectures for the Carnegie Observatories Lectures at the Huntington, Pasadena Senior Center, San Mateo Astronomical Society, Astronomy on Tap, and undergraduate programs including CASSI and the UCSB Physics REU.

• I have led data visualization workshops at the Santa Fe Institute Complex Systems Summer School and KIPAC.

• I have refereed journal articles for Nature, Physical Review Letters, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, The Astrophysical Journal, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Astroparticle Physics, and Language and Cognition.