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During my time in Santa Cruz, I attempted to engage with the broader community through the following activities.

Project for Inmate Education

I served as a co-director for the Project for Inmate Education (PIE) from July 2023 to August 2025. At PIE, we teach incarcerated persons courses on Pre-algebra, College algebra and Introduction to Astronomy at the Santa Cruz Main Jail.

Math Circles
  • I was an active instructor with the Math Student Circle in Santa Cruz, held at Cabrillo College. I lead activities on Cryptography, Eulerian Circuits and the Four Colour Theorem.
  • I was an active participant of the Math Teachers’ Circle at Santa Cruz, where I lead sessions on Gerrymandering.

I organised and assumed the following roles in service of supporting the mathematics community at UCSC.

Head TA

From July 2022 to June 2025, I served as a Head TA (now Teaching support and Administrative Coordinator) in the Mathematics Department, where we assisted the department in supporting Graduate Teaching Assistants.

Peer Support Program

I helped co-found and co-organised the Math Department Peer Support Program since August 2021 until June 2025. The program supports first-year graduate students in navigating the department and program milestones.

Directed Reading Program

I was an organiser of the Directed Reading Program - where we pair undergraduates with graduate students to work on a reading project - from Fall 2021, when I helped restart the program after a brief hiatus during the pandemic, to March 2025. I have participated as a mentor myself several times, and you can view the interesting topics my mentees and I have worked on here. You will also find my mentees and the topics they worked on from my time with Twoples, an online program inspired by DRP.

Association for Women in Mathematics

I helped co-found the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) Chapter with Jennier Guerrero in November 2020, and served as its president in AY 2022-23.

Reading Groups & Seminars
  • What are you reading? an informal seminar, Spring 2023
    Organiser, co-organised with David Rubinstein, Sophie Aiken and Jennifer Guerrero
  • Category Theory Learning Seminar, Winter & Spring 2022
    Organiser, co-organised with Vaibhav Sutrave and David Rubinstein Seminar notes →
  • Graduate Colloquium, Fall 2020 - Spring 2022
    Organiser, co-organised with David Rubinstein
  • Undergraduate Colloquium, Spring 2022
    Organiser, as a member of AWM EC
  • p-adic Hodge Theory ★, Fall 2024
  • Tropical Geometry ★, Spring 2024
  • Abelian Varieties over Finite Fields ★, Fall 2023
  • Derived Categories of Permutation Modules, Spring 2023
  • Canonical Induction Formulas, Spring 2023
  • Topological Data Analysis ★, Winter 2023
  • Stacks ★, Fall 2022
  • Pointless Topology and Triangulated Categories, Fall 2022
  • Stable Homotopy Theory, Winter & Spring 2022
  • Étale Cohomology ★, Fall 2021
  • (Modular) Representation Theory, Summer 2021
  • Local Class Field Theory, Spring & Summer 2021
  • Homological Algebra ★, Spring 2021
  • A Course in Arithmetic by J.-P.Serre ★, Winter & Summer 2020

★ organiser or co-organiser
Other Departmental Service
  • I served as a study leader for the Prelim Study Sessions, where we supported graduate students preparing for the departmental preliminary exams. I served as a leader for all three subjects: Algebra (Winter 2025, Spring 2024, Summer 2023), Analysis (Spring 2025, Winter 2022, Summer 2022) and Geometry (Winter 2022, Summer 2022).
  • I supported the organising of EmpowHER Hour, an AWM initiative (Spring 2022 - Spring 2023). This was a space where graduate students got together to hold meaningful discussions about gender equity in academia, and how one can help build a more inclusive mathematical community .
  • I served as one of the founding Graduate Student representative on the Mathematics Department DEI Committee from Fall 2020 - Spring 2022.
  • During COVID, I hosted and lead the Mathematics Department GSI Support sessions to create a space for peer support amongst the Graduate Student Instructors, from Feb - Aug 2021.