Teaching and Mentorship

My teaching experiences are wide-ranging and serve well to prepare me for the teaching responsibilities I will have as an assistant professor. This background includes two years of TAing the undergraduate public policy and quantitative methods courses at the UC Center Sacramento (UCCS), where I will be the Instructor of Record for the undergraduate methods course for the 2025-26 academic year. I have also TAed for the Causal Inference I course at the ICPSR Summer Program, where I gained additional experience communicating high-level statistical concepts to graduate students across the social sciences.

Throughout graduate school, I’ve sought out opportunities to mentor advanced undergraduates and early-stage graduate students, particularly those who are undertaking independent research projects and are interested in honing their methodological skills.  At UCCS, I have taught and mentored over 200 undergraduates undertaking original research projects, of which ∼ 44% are first-generation college students. To this end, I support students throughout all aspects of the research process—from identifying and refining a research question to developing hypotheses and a research design to collecting, analyzing, and presenting the empirical data that inform their findings. I’ve also prioritized mentoring early Ph.D. students as they hone their methodological skills and begin developing their own research agendas.