Teaching & Mentoring

I believe students learn best when they can connect theory to practice. My teaching emphasizes applied, transferable skills —conducting interviews, analyzing data in R, assessing climate vulnerability — that prepare students for diverse careers in research, policy, and practice. I draw on real-world examples from my fieldwork and community partnerships to illustrate concepts and show students how environmental scholarship can address urgent social needs. Through inclusive pedagogy and active learning, I work to build students' confidence and competence as rigorous, ethical environmental scholars.

Undergraduate Courses

Chemical Engineering for Sustainability (TA, Winter 2021)
The Feminist Critique (TA, Fall 2020)
Dostoevsky, Dickinson, and the Question of Freedom (TA, Fall 2020)

Courses Taught

Social Vulnerability & Adaptation to Environmental Change (Graduate Student Instructor, Fall 2024)
Interviewing & Qualitative Data Analysis (GSI, Winter 2024, Winter 2025)
Introduction to R (GSI, Fall 2024)

Graduate Courses

Mentorship

I have supervised five research assistants (three undergraduates and two master's students) on projects including from systematic literature reviews, qualitative data cleaning and analysis, and survey development.

Prior to my PhD, I worked with over fifteen students on community-engaged class projects in undergraduate and graduate courses. These students created outputs like vulnerability assessments, science communication infographics, data repositories, and more.

As an undergraduate at Stanford, I founded and led a Journal Club for student researchers in the Social Ecology Lab, developing curriculum to introduce new students to foundational literature in environmental social science.