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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 and cost-saving for MOH and MSF• 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 information from interviews. This database will be used to further the human health risk assessment and help to inform an intervention program.• Created heatmaps of soil mercury concentration for a public report • Created a heavy metal intake calculation spreadsheet in Excel for the risk assessment. This spreadsheet will also be used as training material for MOH and MSF employees during risk assessment workshops in 2021.

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, along with an assessment TIFO had conducted in Nigeria. Presented to approximately 150 students in-person.•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 students could pursue as non-stem majors, but still be part of the solution for mitigating climate change. Presented to approximately 220 students via a Zoom conference call.

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 North Fork Palouse River•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.

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.