North Carolina State University
Outreach and Extension Experience
Communicating conservation to others is a huge passion of mine. To cultivate that passion, I have found job and volunteer experiences that involve communicating wildlife science and fostering discourse about the future of the natural resources field.
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Oklahoma State University
Natural Resource Ecology and Management Graduate Student Organization (NREM GSO)
Communications Chair
As the communications chair for the NREM GSO, my main responsibilities are to maintain membership records, prepare all NREM GSO announcement and communication material, keep meeting minutes and notes, inform members of relevant news via email and social media accounts using Meta Business Suite, Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter, create, design, and maintain a brand-new website for the NREM GSO, oversee updates of Outlook calendar with all related events to the members, and use Asana© program for task and project management.
Oklahoma State University
Oklahoma State University Natural Resource Ecology and Management Extension (OSU NREM Extension)
Extension Content Developer for Science Communication
As an Extension Content Developer for OSU NREM Extension, my main responsibilities are to collaborate on projects involving the creation of digital media for science-based land management communication objectives, develop infographics and digital media for ecological management, use Asana© program for task and project management, use Adobe products such as Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Premier to create digital science communication content, and utilize ArcGIS Pro© to create maps for visual science communication.
Walt Disney World
Disney's Animals, Science, and Environment | The Walt Disney Company
Conservation Education Presenter
As a conservation education presenter at Disney’s Animal Kingdom, I interacted with hundreds of guests daily on various conservation, wildlife, and environmental science topics through our Wilderness Explorers program. In this internship, I presented education material to guests of all ages and demographics. As a member of our Diversity and Inclusion team, I also closely worked with education leadership to increase accessibility of our badges to guests who speak Spanish.
Ambassador
As an ambassador for the Auburn University School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, I conducted tours for prospective students and family and represented the school through various promotional events.
Publications and Presentations
In order to effectively communicate my research objectives for my research on female hunters in Oklahoma, I created and presented this oral presentation at The Oklahoma Chapter of The Wildlife Society Annual Conference.
In order to effectively communicate my research objectives for my research on female hunters in Oklahoma, I created and presented this oral presentation at the National Agricultural Communications Symposium in Atlanta, Georgia.
In order to effectively communicate my research objectives for my graduate research at Oklahoma State University, I created and presented this research poster at the The Wildlife Society's
30th Annual Conference in Louisville, Kentucky.
In order to effectively communicate my research objectives and results for my pellet count survey study, I created and presented this oral presentation during the National Conference on Undergraduate Research.
In order to effectively communicate my research objectives for my pellet count survey study, I created and presented this research poster at the 2020 Annual Meeting of the Southeast Deer Study Group.
As a supplementary part of my undergraduate research fellowship program at Auburn University, I wrote and published a research highlight on my completed pellet count survey study.