Outreach, Teaching, Mentoring

Outreach Work

  • Invited outreach talks:
    • 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) 
  • Associate Member of LSST AGN Science Collaboration (2022-present)
  • Princeton Astrophysics Mentoring Committee (2022-present)
  • Co-author of Princeton’s Astrophysical Sciences Department’s Diversity Equity and Inclusion Statement (2020)
  • Princeton Astro-ph Coffee Discussion Leader (2020-present)
  • Princeton Astrophysics and Physics AIP TEAM-UP team member (2021-present)

Teaching

  • 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
    • Nicole Gountanis (Princeton)
    • Kate Macakanja (Princeton)
    • Elizabeth Berzin (Princeton)
    • Alexander Menegas (Princeton)
    • Katherine Gonglewski (Columbia)
    • Jose I. Adorno (CUNY )
  • Princeton Post-Baccalaureate/Graduate Student
    • Betsy Hernandez (Princeton)
    • Philippe Yao (Princeton)
  • 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.