Teaching

Teaching and Guest Lectures

Ecology
American River College
Fall 2023 – Invited Guest Lecturer
Fall 2021 – Invited Guest Lecturer
Fall 2020 – Invited Guest Lecturer

Introduction to Evolution
University of California - Davis
Fall 2020 – Teaching Assistant
Summer 2020 – Teaching Assistant
Fall 2019 – Teaching Assistant
Fall 2018 – Teaching Assistant

Conservation Biology
American River College
Fall 2020 – Invited Guest Lecturer

Field Methods in Wildlife, Fish, & Conservation Biology
University of California - Davis
Spring 2020 – Teaching Assistant

Wildlife Biology
American River College
Spring 2020 – Invited Guest Lecturer

Mammalogy
Sacramento State University
Fall 2019 – Invited Guest Lecturer
Fall 2018 – Invited Guest Lecturer
Fall 2017 – Invited Guest Lecturer

Introductory Biology: Principles of Ecology and Evolution
University of California - Davis
Spring 2019 – Teaching Assistant
Winter 2019 – Teaching Assistant
Summer 2018 – Teaching Assistant
Spring 2018 – Teaching Assistant
Winter 2017 – Teaching Assistant

Mentorship

NSF REU Mentor to Katelyn Sanchez. Ecological and Evolutionary Response to Rapid Environmental Change (EERREC) Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU). National Science Foundation. Hosted at UC Davis. Independent research project: Genetic Diversity of the San Joaquin Kit Fox. Summer 2022.

Career Discover Group Mentor to 21 first-year, UC Davis undergraduate students. Working to guide them throughout the school year as they assess their skills, interests, and values, and the role in which these play in successfully choosing a major and building a career. 2020 - 2021.

Graduate Student Mentor to Stephanie Oleksy. Undergraduate Animal Biology Research Practicum: Museum skull specimens offer insight into ecologically relevant body size differences between closely related montane and lowland red fox subspecies. 2019 - 2021.

Graduate Student Mentor to Taylor Davis. Independent research project: Optimizing tissue sampling and extraction protocol for next-generation genomic sequencing. 2018 - 2019.

Graduate Student Mentor to Emma Sutphin. Undergraduate Animal Biology Research Practicum: Comparison of photographic and genetic determination of abundance of Sacramento Valley Red Foxes (Vulpes vulpes patwin) at den sites. 2017 - 2018.

Graduate Student Mentor to Nicole Gonzalez. Undergraduate Animal Biology Research Practicum: Contrasting Relative Abundance Indices between Designated and Non-Designated Wildlife Areas. 2016 - 2017.

Miscellaneous

Software Carpentry Instructor Training - Trained in evidence-based pedagogy for teaching foundational computational and data science skills to diverse groups of researchers. Teaching Methods in Science and Society - Received training in mentorship, teaching methods, and course design.