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New York, United States

• Courses (co)taught: Culture & Identity; Medical Anthropology; Anthro Explorations; Mesoamerican Archaeoastronomy; AnthroBytes (combination anthropology/data science course); Intro to Biological Anthropology/Paleoanthropology; Astro Monologues (combined astronomy/playwriting course); Welcome to AMNH (crash course for first year Lang students on phys. sci, life sci, and anthro)• Currently developing high school courses on Medical Anthropology and Fashion Anthropology

Ulaanbaatar, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

• Work on a volunteer basis to create virtual science education programming for middle school-aged students in ISMD's Young Scientist Programs• Facilitated virtual science education programming on primatology, paleoanthropology, and cultural anthropology to meet a wide variety of student levels and needs• Currently preparing to facilitate in-person science education on 4-field anthropology for students in-person for summer camp programming

New York, New York, United States

• design and execute original tour experiences for a variety of museum clients• coordinate dates, times, and content of group tours with clients and museum guides• Oversee training of newly hired museum guides at MCNY• assist in Marketing and outreach initiatives• Continue to give freelance museum tours on an ongoing basis

• Research anonymous theatrical designs, designers, Broadway shows, operas and ballets to connect specific designers to design drawings (Miles White, Vincente Minnelli, Valentina Schlee, and others), update MuseumPlus entries to reflect new information• Use MuseumPlus and internal databases to assign object numbers to archival material in MCNY’s permanent collections.• Rehouse archival material to preserve objects’ integrity and longevity

New York City Metropolitan Area

• Contribute original research and word processing for Daniel Mark Epstein's "Rapture and Melancholy," the first annotated volume of the diaries of the late playwright and poet Edna St. Vincent Millay (Yale University Press). Positively reviewed by the New York Times, New Yorker, and Kirkus.• Index 400-page volume (sans text-identifying search engine software)• Transcribe Millay's handwritten diary entries• Edit formatting and grammar of digital documents

New York City Metropolitan Area

• Supervise students (4th-8th grade) in classrooms where they are engaged in remote learning• Support students in maintaining social distancing and good hygiene practices during class and transitions between classes• Assist with arrival and dismissal procedures• Communicate with fellow learning supervisors and remote class teachers about best practices for cultivating positive classroom communities

New York City Metropolitan Area

• Manage online databases of published and unpublished collection material• Collaborate remotely with coworkers and supervisors during Covid-19 pandemic using Google Suite, LibraryThing, Zoho, and Zoom.

• Scan, format, and upload local antebellum and reconstruction era newspapers to Kenyon's academic database. • Take notes and clip articles relating to local African American, Asian American, Women's and Jewish history for professors in the Sociology and Legal Studies departments.• Edit scans in Photoshop and Adobe Acrobat.

Gambier, Ohio

• Scanned field notes and readouts from 30 years of archaeological research in Honduras.• Uploaded scans to Kenyon's academic database.• Organized and alphabetized hard copies in order to maximize work efficiency.

Gambier, Oh

• Took detailed, legible notes in Early Middle Ages history course for a student who had requested a peer note-taker through the office of Student Accessibility and Support• Scanned and emailed notes to student promptly after every class

Greater New York City Area

• Designed original, 45 minute walking tours on human evolution in English and Spanish. Gave tour to K-5 groups regularly.• Facilitated drop-in weekend sessions at the Sackler Educational Lab, answering questions regarding human evolution, neuroscience and genetics for museum patrons, using physical teaching aides and activities when appropriate. Communicated in English and Spanish.• Worked behind museum "touch carts", providing hands-on learning experiences about dinosaurs, animal morphology, cultural anthropology and environmental science, among others.• Mentored two high school SALTZ interns.

Nepeña, Peru

• Excavated artifacts, ecofacts, osteological material and features in the field• Washed/sorted artifacts• Research paper on Casma/Chimú ceramic iconography of the late middle horizon (presented as a research poster at the 2018 Society of American Archaeologists' national conference.)

B.A., Anthropology, History Minor | Graduated With Distinction And Highest Honors

Activities and Societies: Lambda Alpha National Anthropology Honors Society, Sigma Xi Scientific Research Honors Society, Lyceum, A Medio.

Anthropology And Mathematics