Conducted and assisted with a number of research projects and lab initiatives:

• Programmed, ran, and analyzed data for experiments examining individual differences in perception & expertise, own-/other-race effects in perception, and EEG brainwaves
• Presented research findings at international conferences

Served as a committee member on the student board of the Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition. Responsibilities included:

• Compiling resources for student members
• Reviewing Society student grant applications
• Designing and deploying surveys of Society student members
• Assisting in the design and running of the SARMAC 2021 virtual conference (incl. designing the conference Gather.Town space and Cvent webpage, tech support and event administration during the conference)
• Assisted in conference website/app/program creation for the SARMAC 2023 conference

Served as a member on a student-run council whose primary aim was to advocate for psychology graduate student interests in the department. Responsibilities included:

• Attending faculty departmental meetings to serve as a student liaison
• Designing, deploying, analyzing and reporting data for an annual survey of graduate student well-being in the department

Under the lab’s principal investigator, managed a moderately-sized psychology (social cognition) research lab at an undergraduate institution. Responsibilities included:

• Project management (maintenance & running of existing studies, planning/design/pre-registration of new studies)
• Data management and statistical analyses (Entered, curated, & analyzed data for studies)
• Collaboration with community organizations, e.g. school districts, community centers, senior centers (To run studies & recruit participants)
• Knowledge translation and mobilization (Prepared summaries of results for study participants & community partners, as well as talks & presentations for academic conferences)
• Mentoring undergraduate research assistants (Trained RAs in study protocols, statistical analyses, research methods, assisted with student presentation prep)
• Lab logistics & budgeting (Assisted PI with budget and resource planning, handling RA payment, purchasing materials, etc.)

Worked as an undergraduate research assistant on a large-scale research project examining the links between youth strengths and youth gang involvement. Responsibilities included:

• Running studies (i.e., administering survey questionnaires in classrooms)
• Data entry & analysis (i.e., both quantitative and coding of qualitative transcript data)
• Conference preparation (for a large capstone conference for the project)