Professional Development & Service

Programs

2021-2022 | Selected Participant of the Center for Environmental Farming Systems (CEFS) Graduate Student Fellows Program

2021-2022 | Selected Participant of the Association for International Agriculture and Rural Development Future Leaders Forum

2018-Present | Participant in the North Carolina State University Teaching and Communication Certificate program (see: Teaching)

2020-2021| Selected Participant in the North Carolina State University Preparing the Professoriate Program (see: Teaching)

2018 | Selected Participant in the Borlaug Summer Institute on Global Food Security at Purdue University (West Lafayette, Indiana)

As a Borlaug Summer Institute participant, I delivered a presentation entitled: Dimensions of Sustainability: Aquaculture Case Study discussing the importance and role of aquaculture as a sustainable source of animal protein.


Service

Present | Aquaculture Coordinator Chair National Research Support Project (NRSP-8) Genomic Capacity: Building Applied Genomic Capacity for Animal Industries

2020-2025 | Selection Committee Member American Fisheries Society Hutton Junior Fisheries Biology Program

2023 | Organizer & Participant Aquaculture Genomics, Genetics & Breeding Coordinators Meeting

2022-2023 | Honors Thesis Committee Member Kate Pottle, Davidson College

2022 | Person-in-Charge Southeast District & State 4-H Finals, Fisheries and Aquatics Category

2021-2022 | Communications Team Member of the Association for International Agriculture and Rural Development

2021-2022 | Graduate Student Representative for the North Carolina State University Department of Applied Ecology

2020| President of the North Carolina State University Student Fisheries Society

2019 | Secretary of the North Carolina State University Student Fisheries Society

2018-2019 | Treasurer of the North Carolina State University Zoology Graduate Student Association       

2018 | Volunteer State State 4-H Finals Judge, Fisheries and Aquatics Category