Experience

Research

RESEARCHER

SOCIAL SCIENCE MATRIX

May 2018 - May 2020

Part of a five-person interdisciplinary team awarded funding to further develop “Interpreting Risk in the Age of Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Health Testing,” a project investigating how consumers make sense of their genome-derived health data.

RESEARCH FELLOW

WESTFÄLISCHE WILHELMS-UNIVERSITÄT MÜNSTER

May 2019 - August 2019

As the first recipient of the Berkeley-Münster Exchange Fellowship, I spent several months living and working in Münster while conducting research on contraceptive control movements and ethnonationalism in the early 20th century.

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH

NYU LANGONE MEDICAL CENTER

January 2015 - April 2017


Managed team of 15-20 interns in designing and completing original research in the field of socioeconomic dietary disparities and food marketing, as well as writing IRB proposals, grants, manuscripts, research design, coding manuals and data management protocols under Dr. Marie Bragg.


Employment

ASSOCIATE/ PRAKTIKANTIN, ENVIACON INTERNATIONAL, BERLIN

May 2015 - August 2015


Worked in a German speaking office researching bilateral investment between the US and Germany, Slovakia, Poland, and the Czech Republic. I also co-developed the company’s first Corporate Social Responsibility project.

PAGE, U.S. SENATE, WASHINGTON D.C.

January 2010 - May 2010


One of thirty Pages selected to serve on the floor of the U.S. Senate, later selected as one of two Democratic Pages to run floor operations. I hand-delivered legislation, prepared the chamber for each day’s proceedings, answered phones, and ran errands for United States lawmakers and their guests.

Teaching

2022 Discipline Cluster Leader, First Time GSI Conference


2021 Discipline Cluster Leader, First Time GSI Conference


2021 Reader, “Cultures of Sexuality” with Jill Bakehorn


2020 Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, UC Berkeley

2020 Co-Instructor of Record, “Sociology Pedagogy” with Michael Burawoy


2020 Graduate Student Instructor, “Contemporary Sociological Theory” with Cihan Tugal


2020 Discipline Cluster Technology Leader, First Time GSI Conference


2019 Graduate Student Instructor, “Cultures of Sexuality” with Jill Bakehorn


2019 Graduate Student Instructor, “Contemporary Sociological Theory” with Cihan Tugal


2018 Graduate Student Instructor, “Contemporary Sociological Theory” with Chris Muller