SCIENCE COMMUNICATION

• Content curation
  • Through my PhD training, I have refined my critical thinking skills and gained facility with translating jargon-heavy science into easy-to-understand information for a curious audience through podcasts commissioned by and published on University websites (http://weill.ucsf.edu/podcasts). See http://www.brcafoundation.org/podcasts or http://www.ctoradio.org for samples of work.
•  Leadership
  • Experience leading teams to produce high-quality podcasts on a monthly basis featuring curated interviews of leading scientists (ctoradio.org). Other skills include organizing and motivating large groups, as well as training and encouraging individuals to realize their own creative potential.
• Education
  • Through the Science Education Partnership, I gained extensive teaching and communication skills. I developed engaging, age-appropriate science lesson plans for grades 2,4, and 7.

MULTIMEDIA PRODUCTION

• Software
  • Hindenburg Journalist
  • Audacity
  • Adobe Premiere Pro
  • Adobe Illustrator
  • Adobe Lightroom
• Other
  • Comprehensive understanding of copyright and fair use laws
  • Comfort with the use of handheld recording devices
  • Understanding of sound theory
  • Soft interviewing skills
  • Photography (see below)
• Social Media
  • Built the social media following for the BRCA Foundation (@brcafndn)
  • I curate social media platforms for the Science Policy Group at UCSF (@SPGatUCSF) and for Carry the One Radio (@ctoradio)
  • Managed web-hosting for carrytheoneradio.org

SCIENCE

• Molecular Biology
  • PCR for sub-cloning and genotyping purposes
  • ddPCR for copy number variation assays
  • InFusion cloning
  • CRISPR and shRNA for genetic functional analysis
• Biochemistry
  • Western Blot
  • IP and Co-IP
  • Immunohistochemistry
• Electrophysiology
  • Patch clamping (Voltage/ Current) in organotypic cultures of rodent hippocampi
• Cell culture
  • Rodent primary neuronal cultures
  • Rodent organotypic neuronal cultures
  • human iPSCs and neurospheres

PHOTOGRAPHY SAMPLE

A pinch of poison

Engagement shoot 2

Engagement shoot 1

Coconut chocolate

Downpour in Owens Valley

Hike in California

Engagement shoot 2

Spuds on fire

Engagement shoot 2

Engagement shoot 1

Engagement shoot 1

Engagement shoot 1

Engagement shoot 2

Engagement shoot 2

Engagement shoot 2

California coast

Hike in California

Engagement shoot 1

Engagement shoot 1

Engagement shoot 2

Engagement shoot 2

Hike in California

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Engagement shoot 1

Engagement shoot 1

Here be dragons