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
