Service Activities

Service Activities

Student Leadership Work

GPSA Assembly 2019-2020

Penn State Graduate and Professional Student Association 

  • ​At-Large Delegate (2018-2019)
  • Delegate for the College of Agricultural Sciences (2019-2021)
  • Speaker of the Assembly (2019-2020)

Penn State Plant Pathology Association

  • President (2020-2021)

Penn State Food and Housing Security Task Force

  • Graduate Student Representative (2020)
Attending the SACNAS Conference in San Antonio in 2018

Penn State SACNAS Chapter – Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS).

  • Events coordinator (2019–2020)

Mycological Society of America Service

Mycological Society of America Executive Board Members July 2018

MSA Student Section Executive Board

  • Past Chair (2018-2019)
  • Chair (2017-2018)
  • Vice-Chair (2016-2017)
  • Webmaster (2015-2016)

Student Representative in Committees

  • MSA Nominations Committee (2021–2022)
  • MSA International Committee (2017–2020)
  • MSA Karling Lecture Committee (2016–2017)
  • MSA Nomenclature Committee (2015–2016)

Outreach Activities

Sharing science with third graders in rural Illinois
Sharing science with third graders in rural Illinois

Adopt-a-Classroom Program
Western Illinois University – Biology Graduate Student Association, Volunteer conducting monthly science hands-on and outdoor activities with students in rural Illinois third grade classrooms.

Mentoring

OTS REU 2022 at Las Cruces Biological Station
San Vito, Costa Rica

Invited Faculty 

  • Organization for Tropical Studies (Summer 2021 and Summer 2022). Mentored two undergraduate students each summer leading fungal research at Las Cruces Biological Station in San Vito, Costa Rica
  • For information about this program visit the NSF LSAMP REU website
Being an International Student Orientation Leader in Spring 2019

International Student Orientation Leader

  • Pennsylvania State University (Summer 2018, Fall 2018, and Summer 2019 orientations)

Community Service

Penn State Arboretum Wildflower Trail Volunteer

  • Volunteer (2018-2020) 


​Penn State Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) Volunteer

  • Tax preparer (2019)
  • Supervisor (2020)