Teaching

 
 
 
 
 

Part-time Faculty

Merritt College, Peralta Community College District

Oct 2020 – Dec 2020
Natural History of the Bay Area: Bryophytes
 
 
 
 
 

Grader

University of California, Berkeley

Sep 2020 – Dec 2020
California Natural History
 
 
 
 
 

Graduate Student Instructor

University of California, Berkeley

Aug 2020 – Dec 2020
Thriving in Academia
 
 
 
 
 

Graduate Student Instructor

University of California, Berkeley

Aug 2020 – Dec 2020
Integrative Human Biology
 
 
 
 
 

Graduate Student Instructor

University of California, Berkeley

Jan 2020 – May 2020
Introduction to California Plant Life Laboratory and Field Course
 
 
 
 
 

Graduate Student Instructor

University of California, Berkeley

Aug 2019 – Dec 2019
Ecosystems of California Field Course
 
 
 
 
 

Graduate Student Instructor

University of California, Berkeley

Aug 2015 – May 2016
Introductory Biology Laboratory
 
 
 
 
 

Teaching Assistant

California State University, Los Angeles

Jan 2015 – Jun 2015
Ecology Laboratory
 
 
 
 
 

Teaching Assistant

California State University, Los Angeles

Jul 2014 – Dec 2014
Plant Biology Laboratory
 
 
 
 
 

Recitation Leader Instructor

Purdue University, Indianapolis

Jan 2009 – Aug 2012
Methods in Teaching Chemistry
 
 
 
 
 

Recitation Leader

Purdue University, Indianapolis

Aug 2008 – Aug 2012
General Chemistry I Recitation
 
 
 
 
 

Recitation Leader

Purdue University, Indianapolis

Aug 2008 – Jun 2009
Concepts of Biology I Recitation

Workshops

Wonders of a Dryland moss: Syntrichia from genomes to ecosystems

Jepson Herbarium Jan 2021
Hosted in partnership between the Jepson Herbarium and the collaborative research project 3DMoss: Desiccation and Diversity in Dryland Mosses, with funding provided by the US National Science Foundation under the Dimensions of Biodiversity program.

Biological Sciences Discipline-Cluster Workshops

University of California, Berkeley Aug 2020
Virtual Teaching Conference for First-Time Graduate Student Instructors

Biocrusts: The Living Skin of the Earth

University of California, Berkeley Mar 2019
Expanding Your Horizons, a STEM workshop for middle-school aged girls

Introduction to R, Git, Shell, and Reproducible Analysis in R

Berkeley Institute for Data Science Jan 2019
Software Carpentry Workshop

Biological Sciences Discipline-Cluster Workshops

University of California, Berkeley Aug 2018
Teaching Conference for First-Time Graduate Student Instructors

Introduction to Genomics Data Wrangling

Berkeley Institute for Data Science Aug 2018
Data Carpentry Workshop

Introduction to R, Git, Shell, and R

Berkeley Institute for Data Science Jul 2018
Data Carpentry Workshop

Mentoring

Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship Program, UC Berkeley

Current mentees

  • Jordan Jomsky, UCB Class of 2021

Former mentees

  • Dean Berkowitz, UCB Class of 2020
  • Heloise Carion, UCB Class of 2021
  • Shloka Reddy, UCB Class of 2021
  • Easha Sagar, UCB Class of 2019

Biotech Partners

Former mentees

  • Jose Adame Medina, Berkeley High School, Class of 2020
  • Angela Sacramento, Oakland Technical High School, Class of 2019

Undergraduate research assistants

Former mentees

  • Brittanie Rodriguez, California State University, Los Angeles, Class of 2014
  • Katelyn Millette, California State University, Los Angeles, Class of 2015