Outreach, Teaching, Mentoring

Outreach/Service

  • Invited outreach talks:
    • “Echo Mapping: Your Guide to the Supermassive Black Hole Region,” Rockland Astronomy Club, (Apr 2025)
    • Guest on iHeart Radio podcast, “The Limit Does Not Exist”, episode: “Star Power” (Mar 2020)
    • Plenary Speaker, Annual New York City Girls Computer Science and Engineering Conference (Fall 2019)
    • “Black Holes and Gravitational Waves: An Impossible Discovery,” Princeton Science Cafe (Dec 2019)
    • “Why I am thankful for gas,” Astronomy on Tap NYC (Nov 2017) 
  • Co-Leader of the LSST AGN Variability Sub-Group (2024 – present)
  • Co-Leader of Black Hole Interest Group at the Center for Computational Astrophysics
  • Head of Princeton Astrophysics Mentoring Committee (2023 – 2024)
  • Co-author of Princeton’s Astrophysical Sciences Department’s Diversity Equity and Inclusion Statement (2020)
  • Peer Reviewer Nature, ApJ, MNRAS, A&A (2022 – present)

Teaching

  • Module Instructor, “Tidal Disruption Events” and “Active Galactic Nuclei,” Center For Computational Astrophysics LSST Summer School (Summer 2025)
  • Lead Teacher, “Math 015 Pre-Algebra,” East Jersey State Prison (2024)
  • Curriculum Development and Instructor, “PHYS 130: Astronomy,” Edna Mahan Women’s Correctional Facility (2023)
  • Math tutor, East Jersey State Prison (2023)
  • Instructor, “Math 020 Beginning Algebra,” East Jersey State Prison (2021-2022)
  • Assistant in instruction, “Planets in the Universe,”  Dept. of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University (Spring 2020)
  • Instructor, BridgeUP: STEM After-School and Summer Scientific Coding Classes, American Museum of Natural History (2017-2018)

Mentoring

  • Undergraduates
    • Méabh Jack (CUNY)
    • Roberto Serrano (IL State)
    • Nicole Gountanis (Princeton)
    • Kate Macakanja (Princeton)
    • Elizabeth Berzin (Princeton)
    • Alexander Menegas (Princeton)
    • Katherine Gonglewski (Columbia)
    • Jose I. Adorno (CUNY)
  • High School Students
    • Juliet Cornelis
    • Denelis Ferreira
    • Anais Gomez
    • Ariba Khan
    • Anna Li
    • Audrey Soo
My BridgeUP: STEM students giving a practice presentation on their research on black holes in AGN disks.