Description: My primary career goal is to teach and excite people of all ages about the STEM fields, specifically neuroscience. I love teaching, both in traditional settings (like the college classroom) and in informal settings (science outreach, lay-person friendly public lectures, hands-on workshops). I have more than a decade of experience in science outreach with both children…
My primary career goal is to teach and excite people of all ages about the STEM fields, specifically neuroscience. I love teaching, both in traditional settings (like the college classroom) and in informal settings (science outreach, lay-person friendly public lectures, hands-on workshops). I have more than a decade of experience in science outreach with both children and adults.
I am a trained experimental scientist, and have done work in rodent behavior, histology, neuroanatomy, systems neuroscience, molecular biology and models of neurological disease. I received my degree from the Neuroscience Training Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. As a member of the lab of Corinna Burger , I worked to explore genes that have been identified as involved in learning and memory in rodent models of aging via behavioral, cellular and molecular methodologies. I put my pedagog
More recently, as a consulting Documentary Researcher for Tangled Bank Studios at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, helped the editorial film team understand the science behind Alzheimer’s Disease and fine-tune scientific content for the lay audiences of PBS/NOVA. As the Policy & Advocacy Fellow at the Society for Neuroscience , I developed communication materials about science, policy, and activities of Congress for a variety of audiences. In my most recent position as the Associate Director of Educ