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Seattle, Washington, United States

• Modeling lead poisoning, household air pollution, and water, sanitation, and hygiene (WaSH) for the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) report
• Modeling safely managed sanitation for the Goalkeepers (Gates Foundation) report
• Relative risk systematic reviews on: hygiene - diarrhea, blood and bone lead – cardiovascular disease, and water and sanitation – diarrhea
• Modeled occupational risk factors for GBD report (2021-2024)

Moscow, Idaho, United States

• Database management and organization for environmental data
• Map creation and management for heavy metal exposure in Kyrgyzstan
• Mentor and supervise student interns

Moscow, Idaho, United States

• Trained and lead Kyrgyz Ministry of Health (MOH) and Doctor's without Borders (MSF) field teams in hazard identification assessment, Kyrgyzstan (August-September, 2019)
• Wrote sampling protocols for soil, sediment, food, and water sampling, which combined US and Kyrgyz protocols
• Organized and conducted QA/QC review of available contamination data from mining communities in Kyrgyzstan
• Created maps in QGIS identifying potential sampling locations within the mining communities in Kyrgyzstan
• Developed and lead ‘Intro to QGIS’ workshop in Kyrgyzstan in August 2020 for MOH and MSF employees. Created QGIS lesson and worked with translators to present material. Utilized open-source software to assure access.
• Managed environmental data with R statistical software. Built a database incorporating all data collected during the assessment, including 2 field screening methods, results from 4 laboratories, and demographic.

Moscow, Idaho, United States

• Graded papers, assignments, and research posters for Intro to Environmental Science
• Assisted in leading Field Activities in Intro to Environmental Science
• Collaborated with 3 other Teaching Assistants in supervising and mentoring over 200 students in the in-person course
• Sole Teaching Assistant supervising and mentoring over 50 students on the online courseIntro to Environmental Science Lectures:
• Co-presenter on ‘Environmental Health’ in April 2020. Presented on the basic steps of conducting a human health risk assessment, using the assessment I was assisting TIFO in conducting in Kyrgyzstan as an example.
• Presenter on ‘TIFO, Climate Change, and You’ in October 2020. Presented on the human health risk assessment that I was assisting TIFO in conducting in Kyrgyzstan. Also, presented on methods and possible careers that.

Pullman, WA

• Conducted Watershed Health Assessments, agricultural field soil sampling, and monthly water quality assessments for three separate studies
• Organized, cleaned, analyzed, and graphed water quality data from the North Fork Palouse River using R statistical software.Undergraduate Research: Stream Restoration Impact on Fecal Coliform Concentrations in the.
• Assisted in taking water and algae samples, and river measurements in the field, and analyzed algae samples in the lab
• Collected data and ran the statistics on the fecal coliform concentration in the North Fork Palouse River

Master'S Degree, Environmental Science

Master's Thesis: Comparison of X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometer and Lumex Atomic Absorption Spectrometer for Environmental Assessment at.

Bachelor’S Degree, Environmental And Ecological Science

Activities and Societies: Member of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars and President and Co-Founder of the Water Resources.