In addition to fulfilling my roles as a student, I am also part of many student groups at WSU SOM, including the Medical Student Garden, Refugee Outreach Collective, and Girls Collective.

I worked as a 6th and 7th-grade science teacher and 3rd-5th grade interventional math teacher. By the end of the first quarter, I had the second highest student test scores out of any teacher at my school. When my students took their science national growth test at the end of their first semester with me, their results showed 10.8 months of growth within a four-month period. During the third quarter, I co-founded an after-school program for girls at our school, The Heroic Girl. The Heroic Girl grew to around 20 dedicated members throughout the quarter. My co-founder and I worked to empower our students with the tools and skills they needed to be leaders in school, at home, and in their personal lives through open discussion, confidence building, and bettering the local community.

As President of Refugee Outreach Collective (ROC) MSU, we work to better educate the student body of MSU about global refugee and migration crises, as well as assist the local community of recently resettled families. ROC MSU connects students directly with volunteer opportunities with recently resettled families in the Lansing area. ROC MSU has put together donation drives, panels on displacement, and film festivals in the past. This semester we hope to hold another film festival of documentaries on those going through displacement, as well as a 5K fundraiser.

I am part of a team of students working to educate fellow MSU students on the realities of educational inequity in America, the mission and vision of Teach for America, and how students can apply to get involved with Teach for America in the future.

I have had the opportunity to assist on numerous research projects, including a study on Wearable Activity Tracker use in Older Adults and another study on the Uses of Virtual Reality in the Pediatric Emergency Department. I have most recently been working on a study that looks at social media and smartphone use across the life course. I work on literature reviews, interview participants, and dissemination writing for these projects.

As President of No Lost Generation MSU, I worked to focus our club on raising awareness on MSU’s campus about refugee crises and how we as students can aid these individuals in need; as there is a heavy presence of refugees in the Lansing area, and also how we can help those around the world through fundraising as well as emotional support.

I facilitated partnerships between local/global non-profit organizations and MSU No Lost Generation initiative. My job was to find non-profits that are passionate about helping refugees so that we can reach out and help in any way we can by either fundraising for them or increasing awareness on our campus about their mission.

I interned in two refugee camps, Moria and Kara Tepe, on the island of Lesvos in Greece. Some of my duties included passing out toiletries, food, and clothing to refugees, painting the walls of the camps, and shadowing physicians in the clinic.

I assisted care coordinators with planning patient needs after they were discharged from the hospital. I also informed patients how their rights with Medicare work while they were staying in the hospital.