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• Communicating with government and local partners in City Council and Community Board meetings, providing local outreach and community focused events
• Supporting a team of environmental educators to create a virtual resource platform using ArcGIS Story Maps
• Organizing monthly volunteer events at Ridgewood Reservoir to remove invasive plants and plant native ones
• Facilitating volunteer beach cleanups at Plumb Beach in Brooklyn and Lemon Creek in Staten Island
• Maintaining… Show more
• Maintaining forest health at Mt. Loretto Unique Area in Staten Island with NYS Dept. of Environmental Conservation

Queens, NY

• Removed invasive plant species and replaced with native wildflowers and trees
• Seasoned and skillful with power tools for significant restoration projects
• Advocated for restoration and school programs to city council staffers

Greater New York City Area

• Prepared materials for and ran public school field trip programs
• Communicated with teachers to set guidelines and expectations for student activities and environmental safety
• Trained co-teachers and team members on essential field trip protocols

Brooklyn, NY

• Supported afterschool program, Biorocket, about molecular biology with students ranging from grades 10-12
• Set up laboratory for research and discussion related to molecular biology lectures with guest speakers
• Captured assets of events and programming with photography and video for social media

Brooklyn, NY

Brooklyn, NY

Binghamton, NY

Binghamton University

• Infected C. elegans with transformed P. aeruginosa strains to determine differences in virulence
• Grew, washed, and harvested C. elegans and their eggs for experiments by transferring them between agar plates
• Assisted in lab experiments of graduate mentor, includes running PCR, creating transposon mutant strains of P. aeruginosa, collect mortality rate data for A. thaliana infection model

Binghamton University

• Developed project supervised by graduate mentor investigating the effects of biofilm dispersion on the pathogenicity of Pseudomonas aeruginosa
• Propagated a population of Caenorhabditis elegans to use as an animal infection model
• Cultured mutant strains of P. aeruginosa for infection
• Collected rate of mortality data of C. elegans for analysis of mutant strain virulence
• Assisted in attempts to develop a bacterial reporter strain that would indicate a biofilm dispersion… Show more
• Assisted in attempts to develop a bacterial reporter strain that would indicate a biofilm dispersion response Show less

• Demonstrated and reinforced key physics concepts to students using the tool provided in the classroom
• Met weekly with 22 students and oversaw group work activities
• Collected student data to ensure that the proper techniques were being used and the equipment was working properly