Service Activities
Student Leadership Work
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)
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
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
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
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
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)