Teaching Experience

Throughout my time in graduate school, I have worked to gain significant experience teaching. I served as a teaching fellow for two undergraduate and one graduate courses (course details below). As part of my duties, I have written problem sets and solutions, led discussion sections, taught labs, and given several lectures. I was honored for my teaching in these courses with three Harvard University Certificates for Distinction in Teaching (a university-wide award).

  • Astronomy 201b: The Physics and Chemistry of the Interstellar Medium
    • A graduate-level course lead by Karin Oberg, which covered the processes that govern the interactions between the ISM, stars and their host galaxies, including star and planet formation, and feedback from stellar deaths.
  • Astronomy 17: Galactic and Extragalactic Astronomy
    • An undergraduate-level course lead by Daniel Eisenstein, which covered the interstellar medium, star clusters, the structure and dynamics of the Milky Way and other galaxies, clusters of galaxies, active galaxies and quasars, cosmology, and the early universe.
  • Astronomy 16: Stellar and Planetary Astronomy
    • An undergraduate-level course lead by David Charbonneau, which covered thermal radiation and stellar spectra, telescopes, energy generation in stars, stellar evolution, orbital dynamics, the Solar system, and exoplanets.

Teaching Pedagogy

I have taken several courses in teaching pedagogy and completed the Bok Center Teachinging Certificate at Harvard. To learn more about my teaching philosophy and see examples of course elements I have designed, follow the links below.

  • Click here to see my full Teaching Porfolio
  • Click here to see a sample curriculum that I designed for a general education astronomy course

Outreach

I have also been involved in a number of outreach projects. In particular, I am passionate about promoting women in STEM fields. Follow the links below to learn more about some of these projects.

First Light - Carnegie Academy for Science Education (CASE)

I am currently writing an astronomy curriculum with CASE to be taught in three parts: (1) What is space? (2) Are there other planets like Earth? (3) How can we travel in space? I will be teaching this astronomy curriculum in the First Light program during the 2018-2019 academic year.

WorldWide Telescope

As a WorldWide Telescope ambassador, I have taught in several local middle schools, presented at the US Science and Engineering Festival and the Cambridge Science Festival, and designed and built an educational kiosk for the Harvard Museum of Natural History.

Science Club for Girls

For six years, I taught an afterschool science program for K-6 girls at the Amigos School in Cambridge. Each semester featured a different hands-on curriculum meant to encourage young girls to be excited about science.

Harvard CUWiP 2017

I am currently a member of the local organizing committee for the 2017 APS Northeast Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics (CUWiP). The goal of this conference is to help undergraduate women continue in physics by providing them with the opportunity to experience a professional conference, information about graduate school and professions in physics, and access to other women in physics of all ages with whom they can share experiences, advice, and ideas.