Community Engagement
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
Highlights:
Created regular virtual social hours at the start of my PhD in 2020 to foster a sense of inclusive community building and support for students at this time, especially incoming cohorts after hearing sentiments of colleagues feeling isolated. Helped colleagues connect through introductions, and mentored others incoming to the school.
Graduate Student Organization elected representative in 2021-2022; created the role of Co-Director of Events to increase community building efforts and resurrect the GSO via a discord channel and collaboration with other elected representatives. The emphasis on teamwork is there as this required monumental effort to create supportive environments for students and their professional development. Collaborated to carry out 10 inclusive events and student development workshops mindful of pandemic precautions and helped re-build organization from pre-pandemic engagement levels. Cultivated intersectionally inclusive, safe spaces for connection and support offering both in-person and virtual events. Attended every GSO meeting, working closely with team, and teaching on logistics and operations of meetings, and compiling GSO resources for future committees. This role was entirely voluntary and required navigating a difficult and tense space and community impacted by the pandemic with sensitivity and care.
Heavy involvement and effort in organizing conferences, especially the Anticipation Conference in-step with the Chair and redesign of website, and book of abstracts, and managing scientific committee and peer-review process design, EasyChair management, maintenance, and set up along with attending weekly and bi-weekly meetings, and social media set up and content creation for both website and twitter. Reflective of commitment to community service.
Attended every meeting in all of the community-oriented commitments, with genuine interest and active efforts and results in inclusive community-building and supports for student success and benefit, while completing my PhD obligations and coursework full-time and belonging to the NSF in Citizen-Centered Smart Cities and Smart Living and HASTAC scholars communities.
Also attended reading group in Data & Society, was elected as the Graduate Student representative on a junior search committee, and a participant in the Cambridge University workshop on Histories of AI: Genealogy of Power, NRT student council representative, and volunteered at conferences.
Timeline:
2024-current Surveillance & Society, Peer Reviewer
2022-current HASTAC Scholar
2021-current 4s Member
2020-current IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society, and IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine Peer Reviewer
2020-2024 NRT fellow activities; I also led a weekly writing group with peers Spring 2023
2019-2024 Society Policy Engineering Collective Member, Arizona State University, Institute for the Future of Innovation in Society
2021-2022 School for the Future of Innovation in Society, Graduate Student Organization Co-Director of Events
2021-2022 4th International Conference on Anticipation Organizing Committee Member
2021-2022 Junior Faculty Search Committee, School for the Future of Innovation in Society, Arizona State University Graduate Student Representative
2021-2022 Data & Society, Arizona State University reading group member
2021 Cambridge University Summer School Histories of AI: A Genealogy of Power Summer Workshop Participant; Virtual
2019-2020 IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS20), Tempe, Arizona, Organizing Committee
2020 Citizen-Centered Smart Cities & Smart Living NRT Student Council Representative
2019 EMERGE: A Festival of Futures, Volunteer
2019 CSPO 20th Anniversary Conference: Rightful Place of Science-2, Volunteer
2018-2019 Risk Innovation Lab, School For the Future of Innovation in Society, Member
2012-2018 Amnesty International Tempe, AZ Chapter Member and Volunteer Coordinator