I have developed two graduate-level courses, served as instructor of record for one course (for 10 semesters), and have served as a teaching assistant for numerous courses during my undergraduate and graduate degrees (10 semesters).

I’ve developed and led graduate level courses that were aimed at improving graduate student skills when I was a PhD student in UNM's Biology Department. The intention behind the Advanced R seminar course was to provide a forum for graduate students to collaboratively teach other grad students complex analyses in R and other programs, further building a community of collaboration in our department. Because our department did not offer any formal professional development apart from private advisor-to-student training, I created the BIOL 502 Graduate Student Professional Development course. I believe that graduate training encompasses more than just publishing peer-reviewed research and formal courses like this help students overcome the need to solely rely on their advisor for such critical skills necessary to be successful on the academic or industry job market.

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