Science Outreach

PACE is a graduate student led peer-mentoring program at UCI. The goal of the program is to help graduate students at all levels to be successful in grad school as well as teach our mentors valuable leadership and mentorship skills. In my second year at UCI, I joined the PACE leadership team and now am running the program with three other team members. Our programs include - Exceleration (1-on-1 grad peer mentoring for first-year graduates), Fire Up Fridays (bi-weekly group workshops for incoming grads), and Attitude Thrusters (group workshops for graduates at all levels). PACE is very thankful to be funded by AAS - National Osterbrock Leadership Program (NOLP).

As a National Osterbrock Fellow, we strive to educate the community on the various ways graduate students may engage in leadership and DEI efforts at their Universities. I have helped organiize multiple splinter sessions at AAS as well as a white paper on Reinventing the Astronomy Ph.D. to foster valuable professional skills inside and outside academia.

I developed and ran astronomy workshops for kids of all ages in the community of Lancaster, CA. These interactive worshops aimed to inspire youth to pursue science/astronomy.

Made possible by San Diego State University, I would help run the public Mount Laguna Summer nights, which would bring hundreds of people to the observatory. We would give an astronomy lecture, followed by a night sky tour and telescope viewing.

I would also develop and run Planetarium shows for public school students (K-12) as well as college students at SDSU.