DEI Leadership/Outreach
At Caltech, I participated and led the Unlearning Racism in Geoscience (URGE) Caltech GPS Pod, which began in winter 2021. Together with a group of graduate students and postdocs, we created anti-racist policy recommendations for our Division to follow in spaces ranging from fieldwork to graduate admissions. I presented our preliminary strategies at the 2021 AGU Fall Meeting.
In an effort to increase transparency and spell out the unwritten rules of academia, Lily Dove and I wrote up a guide on finding an Earth science research postdoc which you can check out here.
The last chapter of my thesis details research I conducted during my PhD on gender inequities in the Caltech GPS Qualifying Examination. The first study was a statistical analysis I conducted during my Bayesian Statistics class, documenting for the first time that women are (nearly 3x) more likely to fail the exam than men. The second study is a survey I ran with Lily Dove and Sara Murphy.
Who we bring into our departments as seminar speakers highlights what and who our community values. From this perspective, it is essential to have dynamic, engaging speakers from diverse scientific fields, institutions, and identity backgrounds. During my time as a PhD student at Caltech, I created the role for a student seminar co-organizer and ran the ESE department seminar alongside Prof. Jörn Callies from 2019-2022. I also implemented tracking of speaker demographics as a Caltech Diversity and Inclusion Ambassador project. Starting in Fall 2023, I am now co-organizing the Lamont Ocean and Climate Physics seminar.
Other leadership roles I've held and activities I've participated in recently:- President of Caltech Women in Geophysical and Planetary Sciences (WinG).
- Member of the Caltech Title IX Graduate Student Council and Title IX Advocate (2019-2023).
- Founding member of Caltech Hillel.
- FUTURE Ignited recruiter.
- Caltech Y Rise Program tutor.
- Community outreach through Caltech Science for March and CTLO.