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SERVICE AT SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY

UNIVERSITY SERVICE

Grand Reunion (October 2022)

DEPARTMENT SERVICE

Undergraduate Research Advertising and Recruiting (2022-

Biotech Minor Advisory Committee (2022-

Assessment Committee

Equity and Inclusion and Student Access (2022-

Biology Teaching Standards (2022-

ADVISING

Tribeta Biology Honor Society co-advisor (2022-present)

First-year students’ faculty advisor (7 for AY 2022-2023)

SERVICE AT CSU EAST BAY

UNIVERSITY SERVICE

Chair of CSUEB IACUC (2021-2022)

Member of the CSUEB University Foundation Board (2021-2022)

Subcommittee member Advising Task Force (2021)

Scientific member of CSUEB IACUC (2019-2021)

CSUEB Institutional Representative on the CSUPERB Faculty Consensus Group (FCG) (2019-2022)

DEPARTMENT SERVICE

Member of CSUEB Biology Department Assessment Committee (2019-2022)

Coordinator CSUEB Biology Department Research Seminar Series (2018-2022)

Coordinator CSUEB Biology Department Annual Student Research Symposia (2018, 2019)

ADVISING

CSUEB DISC Faculty Fellow (2021-2022)

Faculty Advisor. CSUEB STEM student/Alumni Networks (2020)

Faculty Mentor for Sankofa Scholars program (2020-2022)

Founder & Faculty Advisor BIPOC in STEM (2020-2022)

Faculty Advisor for the CSU East Bay African Student Association (2019)

Faculty Co-Advisor for the CSU East Bay Women in STEM club (2019-2022)

Faculty Campus Connector (2019-2020)

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT & OUTREACH

Collaboratory with UCSC Institute for the Biology of Stem Cells (IBSC) on Student Recruitment for Graduate programs, funded by UCOP-HSI-DDI (2021-2022)

Advisory Board Member for NSF HSI supported SJSU "Transforming Undergraduate Teaching and Learning Through Culturally Sustaining, Active, and Asset-Based Approaches to Introductory Science Courses" (2021-)

Co-founder and Board Member of Worldwide Organization BIPOC in Parasitology (2021-)

Co-Founder and Board Member of the advocacy group Alliance for the Black Community in Higher Ed (2020-)

Advisory board member for the Stanford University External Advisory Committee for the Stanford ChEM-H Chemistry/Biology Interface (CBI) Pre-doctoral Training Program (2019-)