Activities

In graduate school


As a Mass Media Fellow

I was a AAAS Mass Media Fellow in Summer 2023. This program partners students in science with a news outlet to help bring science stories to the public. During my fellowship with The Conversation U.S., I was mostly editing articles that were written by other academics, to help them write about their areas of expertise in a way that the public could understand.

As an editor, I worked on a variety of articles about science, technology and, of course, math. Whether explaining the math behind why hurricanes spin or exploring the mysterious origins of X in algebra, I happily snuck as much math as I could into The Conversation’s summer lineup. I also authored two articles:

See here for the full list of articles I worked on. I also wrote about the fellowship for an article in AMS Notices and I wrote a feature story in News from the AMS. My work was mentioned in an OMNIA article about science communication at Penn. 


In undergraduate

I organized STEMGeMs (Reed’s student group for gender minorities in STEM fields) and helped run the aerial acrobatics troupe. Other places I worked in college included:

  • Special Collections and Archives, cataloguing materials and repairing books. I had this job both at the Reed Library and the Portland Art Museum.
  • The costume shop in the Theater Department at Reed, sewing costumes for various productions.
  • Echo Theater Company, teaching aerial silks to kids.
  • Camp Stevens, helping coordinate the Farm and Garden program for summer camp.

I adopted a polyhedron, called the Xinegon, which you can see here. The Xinegon has 631 siblings, with f-vector (9, 17, 10). I like that she has some triangular faces, some quadrilateral faces, and some pentagonal faces.