I am deeply committed to outreach and engagement efforts around fostering inclusion, access, and support for students from historically underrepresented backgrounds. I serve on a number of different advisory boards and actively participate in program development and analysis at the department, division, university, and professional level.
I am the co-founder of the first-generation student group in the Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago. This group is the first of its kind at the University and offers programming and resources to graduate students who were the first in their families to attend college. We have partnered with first-generation faculty create faculty/student mentoring relationships and are working toward expanding this model across the Division of the Social Sciences. I also work as a graduate student liaison with the Socioeconomic Diversity Alliance (SDA), a student group for low-income and first-generation undergraduates at the University of Chicago.
I am committed to translating findings of my dissertation into accessible resources for colleges, universities, and students. I am currently working with a handful of campuses to develop new initiatives and programming for better engaging and supporting low-income and first-generation students. I have also given presentations and held workshops for higher education administrators and staff across a number of venues. I regularly engage in scholarship outreach to community colleges, providing mentoring and training on preparing for and applying to competitive transfer scholarships.
In addition, I continue to be actively involved in working with social service organizations and practitioners on producing best practices and programming around homelessness and housing.
In 2018 I was awarded the American Sociological Association's Section on Sociological Practice and Public Sociology's Robert Dentler Student Practitioner Award.
I am the co-founder of the first-generation student group in the Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago. This group is the first of its kind at the University and offers programming and resources to graduate students who were the first in their families to attend college. We have partnered with first-generation faculty create faculty/student mentoring relationships and are working toward expanding this model across the Division of the Social Sciences. I also work as a graduate student liaison with the Socioeconomic Diversity Alliance (SDA), a student group for low-income and first-generation undergraduates at the University of Chicago.
I am committed to translating findings of my dissertation into accessible resources for colleges, universities, and students. I am currently working with a handful of campuses to develop new initiatives and programming for better engaging and supporting low-income and first-generation students. I have also given presentations and held workshops for higher education administrators and staff across a number of venues. I regularly engage in scholarship outreach to community colleges, providing mentoring and training on preparing for and applying to competitive transfer scholarships.
In addition, I continue to be actively involved in working with social service organizations and practitioners on producing best practices and programming around homelessness and housing.
In 2018 I was awarded the American Sociological Association's Section on Sociological Practice and Public Sociology's Robert Dentler Student Practitioner Award.