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• Implement campaign strategies to optimize fundraising portfolio performance, proactively recognize milestones, maximize participant retention, and leverage mission-related resources.
• Cultivate strong relationships with top participants/teams, volunteer committees, sponsors, and community supporters, effectively driving increased involvement and fundraising success.
• Provide vital support to volunteer committees by employing empowerment strategies to facilitate impactful volunteer engagement.

• Collaborated on a dynamic team to implement the Youth Bicycle Education and Safety Training Program, the only broad-scale effort to support safe roadway usage with 4th–7th grade students in Utah.
• Scheduled schools and community organizations, evaluated program effectiveness, and maintained records and equipment.
• Successfully assembled grant applications and secured external funding of $5,000 to support youth education.
• Analyzed bicycle crash data to create educational material to support a signature campaign and legislative efforts to successfully pass the Utah Stop as Yield law for cyclists.
• Independently produced 4 video resources, in addition to digital curriculum updates, to bolster community resources while normal programming altered during the pandemic.
• Revised school prioritization guide to include health indicators and socioeconomic indicators to prioritize equitable program implementation at rural and Title 1 schools.

• Organized and scheduled hands-on science presentations for elementary schools throughout Utah.
• Maintained and built relationships with Utah elementary schools to expand outreach programs and teacher professions development workshops.
• Expanded new outreach program nearly 10X previous fiscal year by assisting with scheduling, program development, and budgeting,.
• Spearheaded museum’s pilot STEAM night at a rural elementary school by recruiting 5 community partners and managing logistical needs for 300 attendees.
• Communicated State Science Standards in a meaningful and engaging manner.
• Developed inquiry-based STEAM programming, restructured programs to include diversity and sensory needs, and assisted with expanding teacher professional development.

Memorial Park

• Autonomously provided administrative supported for community meetings, summer camps, facility rentals, and park events.
• Organized facility rentals, managed community service workers, and responded to park patron inquires.
• Trained and created schedules for new park assistants.
• Connected community groups with Georgia’s native wildlife through guided zoo programs.
• Facilitated hands-on chemistry experiments for summer camp children during science career week.
• Assist with organizing and implementing educational summer programs.

• Directed the development of inquire based experiments on STEM topics that promoted creative thinking for K-4th grade students
• Secured funding through American Chemical Society for two consecutive years for supplies and equipment.
• Managed and coordinated parent and UGA Life Sciences graduate student volunteers through online platforms.
• Recruited volunteers via social media promotion and print media distribution.

• Course: Principles of Biology I (BIOL 1107)
• Description: Biological chemistry, cell structure and function, bioenergetics, mitosis and meiosis, genetics, gene expression and regulation, gene technology, population genetics, evolution.
• Instructor of Record for two laboratory classes with class sizes of 20 students, while conducting regular office hours.
• Created introductory power point slides and active learning assignments to cover key molecular biology laboratory concepts in a writing intensive class.
• Proctored quizzes and examinations in lecture course.

Dr. Mike Adams' Laboratory

• Research focused on engineering hydrogen producing enzymes in anaerobic, hyperthermophilic microbes (Pyrococcus furiosus) as a cost-effective renewable energy source. Used analytical biochemistry and genetic techniques.
• Trained incoming graduate and undergraduate students on fundamental biochemistry and microbiology techniques.
• Reviewed grants and transcripts before publication.
• Responsible for laboratory-wide chemical safety training and record maintenance.
• Trained in GC/MS, FPLC, and anaerobic protein purification and analysis, traditional cloning techniques, and genome analyzing.
• Operated large scale anaerobic bioreactor growths and trained in analytical software.

• Course: Biochemistry & Molecular Biology II (BCMB 4020)
• Description: A comprehensive treatment of biochemistry and molecular biology stressing aspects of metabolism, metabolic regulation, bioenergetics, and recombinant DNA methodologies.
• Responsible for proctoring and grading examination for an upper level lecture course with 89 students.

Dr. Nicole Buan's Laboratory

• Constructed anaerobic methanogen strains (Methanosarcina acetivorans) through traditional cloning techniques and Vector NTI software for the purpose of increased protein expression and identification of protein-protein.
• Identified an unknown crystal composition via microscopy and x-ray diffraction techniques.
• Participated in several projects involving anaerobic media preparation, growth curves, enzymatic activity assays, protein estimation, SDS-PAGE, and Western Blots.
• Assisted in managing and training a high school student worker and two Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) summer students.
• Responsible for laboratory ordering, gas tank inventory,equipment repair, and laboratory maintenance, including anaerobic chamber maintenance.

• Course: Biochemistry Laboratory (BIOC 433)
• Description: Introduction to techniques used in biochemical and biotechnology research, including measurement of pH, spectroscopy, analysis of enzymes, chromatography, fractionation of macromolecules, electrophoresis.
• Independently organized and taught class material to a class size of 23 students, while conducting regular office hours.

Dr. Paul Blum’s Laboratory

• Cell line construction and purification of synthetic protein in Escherichia coli.
• Performed GusB/LacS assays and reducing-end assays.

Lincoln, Nebraska Area

• Course: Fundamentals of Microbiology (BIOS 312)
• Description: Microbial cell structure, genetics, metabolic and biosynthetic activity, diversity, ecology and evolution including host-microbe interactions.
• Assisted in proctoring examinations and quizzes for an upper level course of 137 students.

Dr. Paul Blum's Laboratory

• Undergraduate Creative Activities Research Experience (UCARE) Fellowship, 2010-2012.
• Analyzed the toxicity chemical spectrum and the lethality of hot-acid pretreated switchgrass associated with different protein abundance in Sulfolobus solfataricus cell lines.
• Genetically engineered archaeal hyperthermophilic acidophile strains through molecular cloning techniques, including primer design, DNA purification processes, and blue and white screening.
• Implemented molecular PCR, transformation, and screening procedures.
• Trained and applied FPLC-AKTA protein purification, SDS-PAGE, and in vitro enzyme activity and quantification assays.
• Processed large scale fermentation runs from 3 liter and 15 liter bioreactors and created a SOP for continuous centrifugation to obtain the dry weight of large culture volumes.

Omaha, NE

• Aided in the production of hematology control and calibration products for diagnostic, clinical, and research laboratories.
• Processed 12,500 human red blood cell packs and 2,250 human platelet packs.

Master Of Public Administration - Mpa

Activities and Societies: Leadership, Justice, and Community Practice Graduate Certificate

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Biochemistry And Molecular Biology

Activities and Societies: Biochemistry Graduate Student Association and Women in Science ClubCompleted 89 graduate research and course.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Biochemistry

Activities and Societies: UNL Microbiology Club-President and Founder, American Society for Microbiology UNL Student Chapter-President and.