Leadership / Volunteering
President, Biology Graduate Student Association 2019-2020
- Overseeing the organization, fundraising, marketing and enhancing resources for career opportunities for students
- Introduced a Welcome Social event for an informal gathering of new graduate students and their peers
- Supervised the selection of student speakers at the Departmental Seminar by implementing a blinded voting method of submitted abstracts
- Actively participated in developing the organization webpage, maintaining social network presence and increased visibility through a featured article in the departmental newsletter
- Organized graduate student Town Hall and planned professional development initiatives
- Recognized with Joseph Newton Student Service Award by the Department of Biology, Texas A&M University
Vice President, Biology Graduate Student Association 2018-2019
- Actively participated in organization restructuring,
- Organized professional development events
- Developed travel award criteria and selected travel awardees for the upcoming semester
Judge, Student Research Week 2018 – 2019
- Carefully observed and critiqued the posters and assessed presentation skills after hearing from seven undergraduate competitors over a time of one and half hours. Completed the rubrics for grading each poster and provided feedback for the presenters to improve if any.
Vice President for Finance, Graduate and Professional student Council 2017 -2018
- Developed a running budget for the internal Executive board for the organization
- Appealed and presented in Student Advancement Fee Advisory Board meeting requesting permanent funding to support the graduate assistantship for the Director of the sole student-run, largest research symposium for undergraduate and graduate students, Student Research Week (SRW) at Texas A&M University
- Oversaw and advised Awards and Programming Committee chairs
- Involved in organizing the 2017 President Town Hall by GPSC
- Participated in Fearless Leaders campaign by Division of student Affairs
- Active member of University Disciplinary Appeals Panel, serving to analyze and judge behavioral misconduct by students
- Active member of Honor Council, serving to analyze and judge cases on academic misconduct by students.
- Recognized with Diversity Service Award, Leadership in Equity & Diversity Award and Montgomery Award by different administrative levels of Texas A&M University
Graduate Recruitment/Admissions Committee, Biology, Texas A&M University 2017
- Provided graduate student perspective in selection process and voted for candidate recruitment
- Coordinated the graduate recruitment visitation weekend by managing their pickup and drop off at airports, their stay at the hotel, arranging group dinners, coffee and lunches
- Assigned existing students as buddies or mentors to incoming students, helping them to acclimatize to the campus, introducing them to campus culture and traditions and helping them meet their selected faculty members for interviews
Committee Chair, Quality of life, Graduate and Professional student Council 2016-2017
- Managed and mentored my committee members for developing and executing various projects
- Accomplished a revision in University policy which now provides pre-certification based off of TOEFL/ILETS score and provides accessible transportation after advocating for new incoming international graduate students who are supported by teaching assistantship and are appearing for English Language Proficiency exam at Texas A&M University
- Developed Graduate student climate surveys with the GPSC officers, committee members and office of Dean of Student Life
- Initiated Knowledge Sharing platform for exchange of technical skills within peers
- Researched for providing tax aid/consultation resources for domestic students
- Organized the largest Interdisciplinary dinner in 2016 for Graduate student networking opportunities
- Active member of University Disciplinary Appeals Panel
- Active member of Graduate Climate Committee, Office of Graduate and Professional Studies
- Attended MSC Fall Leadership Conference 2016
Energy Research Society (ERS): Internal publicity committee 2016
- Marketing for the first ERS conference at Texas A&M University in 2016; Served as a liaison between ER conference committee and the dept. of Biology
Women In Science & Engineering (WISE) member 2015– 2021
- Selected and voted for applicants as a member of Ethel Ashworth-Tsutsui Memorial Lecture and Awards Committee 2015 & Susan Arseven Make A Difference Memorial Awards Committee 2017
Biology Outreach Committee member 2013 – 2021
- BIG Event community service, STEM nights at elementary schools around Texas A&M University, Participated in BCS Marathon for fundraising, Participated in March for Science 2017 – Science demonstrations on campus, 12th Can food drive initiative in 2018