Stanford Certified Educator with 15+ Years of Experience, in California, United States

As a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University in the Professor Kent Irwin group, I was concurrently employed by the Stanford University Physics Department as a lecturer for an introductory astronomy class over the summer for the mutual satisfaction of my professors, many of my students, and me. I have also been honing my teaching expertise through outreach such as SLAC Accelerating Girls' Engagement in STEM (SAGE-S) and through the Stanford Postdoctoral Teaching Certificate program, a teaching practicum that endows postdoctoral researchers with the pedagogical skills needed to thrive in today’s academic environment. Coupled with my almost fifteen years of teaching and tutoring expertise and excellent capacities as a problem solver and team player, these experiences would make me a vital element to your teaching team. I supervised undergraduate students and worked under a diverse group of professors, research scientists, engineers, and machinists. Cooperating with the other members of a hand-picked team, I developed a new series of introductory physics labs for undergraduate physics students. I was also engaged as a teaching assistant starting with my junior year at Stanford University and throughout most of my graduate studies, teaching introductory courses in astronomy and physics. This is in addition to tutoring students for around fifteen years and being actively involved in multiple science outreach events, from SPLASH at Stanford to seven years of coordinating and manning demonstrations at the Texas A&M University Physics festival, several years of organizing Star Parties, and several years of graduate student teaching duties. To provide further context, the ages of students that I have taught are from pre-k to adult, I have been teaching from 2007 to 2023, and my teaching style has included lecture style, classroom setting, one on one, volunteer experience, among others.