I've always been passionate about my own education. An unexpected side effect of coming to grad school was finding a love for educating a mentoring others. I've had the privileged to TA for multiple hands on engineering classes, Bioinstrumentation Laboratory for one year, and Bioengineering Senior Design for two years. Senior Design was especially rewarding as I was able to share both my research and industry experience, as the course was taught using a medical device design controls framework. I also have also mentored multiple students as undergraduate researchers in our lab and participated in a formal mentorship development program.

Whenever possible, I try to utilize open source scientific platforms to be part of the thriving communities that enable innovative research and the sharing of knowledge. I extensively utilize ImageJ, R, MATLAB, and FEBio to analyze, visualize, and model my data, and I have published scripts online and in open source journals.

Champaign Urbana has been a wonderful community to learn and grow in, and I do my best to give back to it. I've worked with the University Y in various capacities including serving as chair of the the Fred S.Bailey Scholarship steering committee, which annually awards over $200,000 in scholarships to promote cause driven leaders in the areas of social justice, environmental protection, interfaith cooperation, and global engagement.