Advocacy & DEI

I spend a lot of time advocating for graduate students, using my privileged identity and (relative) insulation from retaliation as a result of my independent funding from fellowships to try and effect positive change. While a lot of this is hard to quantify (and some I am not able or comfortable sharing) I have tried to articulate my commitment as best I can below. In particular, I have started two successful mentoring programs in my department: one for grad student peer mentoring and another involving a complex hierarchy of mentors/mentees.

CIERA Mentorship Network

I helped design a hierarchical extended mentorship network powered by network graph theory.



PAGSC

I helped lead the Physics and Astronomy Graduate Student Council, our department's graduate student self-advocacy organization.