- Partnered with climate nonprofit leaders in the Global South to write and submit a $250,000 grant proposal- Executed an independent research project to identify the opportunities and challenges of community engagement for Department of Energy Direct Air Capture (DAC) Hubs by conducting expert and community interviews and engaging existing publications

- Facilitated transfer of clean, emerging technologies from The Ray to over 36 transportation agency partners in over 24 U.S. states by leading research to inform projects like deploying solar and transmission in the highway right-of-way

Sponsored Program for Undergraduate Research (SPUR): Energy and Environmental Policy Lab under Samuel Trachtman, PhD: - Collected and curated data on over 400 climate and clean energy bills introduced in the states and the interest groups lobbying on those bills- Focused on climate politics in New Mexico as a case study to explore efforts to pass new climate and clean energy policies following Democratic victories in 2018 state-level electionsSocial Science Research Pathways in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management with Mindy Price, Doctoral Candidate: - Transcribed and codified qualitative interviews to further ethnographic fieldwork and archival research on climate-driven subarctic/arctic agriculture and agrarian change in northern Canada- Used content analysis to code newspaper articles and archives systematically

- Managed a 10-person team and polling place of 1500 voters; handled media/public relations & voter troubleshooting- Engaged with ~400 voters daily; addressed voter concerns by communicating extensive knowledge of Iowa election law- Led the reconfiguration of operations procedures to decrease pandemic-era drive-through voting wait times by up to 50%- Collected and entered sensitive data from over 100,000 registered voters into I-VOTERS (the Iowa voter database)

- Led organizing trainings for volunteers; won or tied all 6 assigned precincts with 724 caucus goers on average per precinct- Engaged voters at the grocery store, county fair, on the phone, or wherever; knocked over 3500 doors in 3 months

- Aided innovative research on peptide receptor radionuclide therapy for pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors in the Schultz Lab in the Free Radical and Radiation Biology Program - Independently performed extensive assays like PCR and Flow Cytometry to test somatostatin receptor 2 expression and cell response to drugs