I am President and Co-Founder of A World of Women in STEM (WOW STEM) for short, an online educational platform dedicated to 7th-10th graders. We make videos, write posts, and come up with fun activities that are focused on science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) and the women+ who have been part of these fields throughout history. By celebrating them, we hope our readers get inspired and excited about STEM, and maybe learn something new along the way.
In 2022 I was a Content Intern with Galactic Polymath working on projects related to chemical engineering of indigenous and synthetic dyes and the math and neuroscience of aesthetics. I have continued to work with GP as an educational content creator building engaging lessons for grades 5-12 in and out of the classroom, focusing on the math and the natural sciences.
From 2019-2021 I was a Co-Chair of the Harvard Women in Physics community. Harvard WiP hosts social, informative, and professional development events with the purpose of creating an inclusive atmosphere to help retain scientists from genders historically excluded from or underrepresented in physics.
As a WiP Co-Chair I co-founded the annual Building Inclusive Community workshop for graduate students. I additionally help build diversity and inclusion-focused curricula for the graduate student orientation and first year graduate students' teaching practicum.
I am a graduate student representative of the Harvard Physics Equity & Inclusion Committee and part of Harvard Physics' APS-IDEA team. Utilizing a shared leadership model, we are working to implement both short-term immediate changes in the department's structure, as well as long-term culture change. On behalf of the department, I attend conferences and networking events for undergraduates to help recruit students from historically underrepresented minority groups and genders to apply to the Harvard Physics research and graduate programs.
As an undergraduate I participated annually in the Cincinnati Observatory's family science day, ScopeOut. I also participated in the University of Cincinnati Department of Physics' inaugrual Astrophysics Day for local high schools, creating and leading a breakout session about the search for dark matter.