SciComm for All, Vanderbilt University, 2020
UVA Science Policy Boot Camp, Communicating with Policymakers Workshop, 2020
NC TraCS Institute Clear communication workshop, 2019
National Science Policy Network Southern Hub Retreat, Use Your Voice: Persuasive Communication for Scientists workshop, 2019
Burroughs Wellcome Fund Science communication workshop, 2018
NC TraCS Institute Elevator pitch workshop, 2018
ComSciCon-Triangle 2018 SciComm Boot Camp, writing workshop group leader
ScienceTalk Media interview workshop, 2018
UNC WISDOM Science communication workshop, 2017
UNC SWAC Writing Workshop, 2017
Conservation International Fellows Science communication workshop, 2017
Duke SciComm Fellows group facilitator & social media session leader, 2016
Find Your Voice: How to write an op-ed Vanderbilt University Biomedical Research Education & Training interactive workshop, 2016
Duke Initiative for Science & Society Science Communication Postdoctoral Fellow, 2014-2016
American Society of Naturalists Science Communication Workshop, June 2016
Panelist “Writing & Editing Fundamentals” and writing workshop group leader, ComSciCon-Triangle 2016
Science Blogging & Social Media workshop UNC Chapel Hill, 2016
#SciCommCamp, 2015
ComSciCon-Triangle 2015 Panelist “Engaging Audiences with Scientific Story,” writing workshop group leader
“Careers in Science Communication” Panelist, Duke University, 2014
Editorial Intern at The Scientist (favorite clips: Does Brain Training Work? and Have Herpes, Will Travel), 2013-14
AAAS Mass Media Fellow at the Chicago Tribune (favorite clip: Science jury still out on human placenta consumption), 2013
Santa Fe Science Writing Workshop, 2013
Content writer/curator for portions of the art and news sections of informedbynature.org, dedicated to informal science education and the expansion of science literacy, 2012-13
“Science Communication Tools and Techniques” Course, Vanderbilt University, 2012
National Association of Science Writers, 2012-present
Science Communicators of North Carolina Board of Directors, 2017-2019
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