ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY:

2018-2019
Organizer: Save the Frogs Day, local elementary students visit the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology to spend a day learning about amphibian biodiversity and conservation. University of California, Berkeley, California

2013-2015
Member of the Editorial Board: Michigan Journal of Sustainability, an interdisciplinary, scholarly journal dedicated to communicating new sustainability research to policy makers and practitioners

• Check out past issues of MJS

2011
Conservation Policy Workshop Organizer and Presenter: Protecting the critical upland forest habitat of the Micronesian Islands. Palikir, Pohnpei State, Federated States of Micronesia

• Details from the New York Botanical Garden

K-12 EDUCATION:

2018
Curriculum Development and Guest Instructor: Nature notebooks; making hypotheses about organism form and function. Fourth/Fifth Grade Science, Berkeley Unified School District, Berkeley, California

2016
Guest Presenter: Mushroom Identification and Ecology. Seventh/Eighth Grade Science Ann Arbor Open School, Ann Arbor, Michigan

2015
Volunteer Organizer and Field Trip Leader: D-Town Farms BioBlitz, biodiversity survey of D-Town Urban Farms with local middle and elementary students in the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network’s Youth Development Program. Detroit, Michigan

2014
Volunteer Organizer and Field Trip Leader: Belle Isle BioBlitz, biodiversity survey of Belle Isle Park, Detroit, Michigan with high school biology students. West International High School, Detroit, Michigan

• Featured on Michigan Public Radio

2013
Guest Presenter: Ecosystems and Conservation Biology, Eighth Grade Science Escola Municipal de Ensino Fundamental Jose Vieira, São Marcos, São Paulo State, Brazil

NATURAL HISTORY:

2012
Invited Speaker: Mushrooms and the Micronesia Biodiversity Project. Monthly meeting of the Illinois Mycological Association, Chicago, Illinois

2011
Invited Speaker: Habitat conservation in the Micronesian Islands. Monthly meeting of the Mycological Society of San Francisco, San Francisco, California

2011
Guest Columnist: MycoDigest – The deadly amphibian killing chytrid fungus. Mycena News: The Monthly Newsletter of the Mycological Society of San Francisco

2010
Guest Columnist: MycoDigest – The mysterious Cordyceps mushroom. Mycena News: The Monthly Newsletter of the Mycological Society of San Francisco

2008-2010
Educational Exhibit Organizer and Volunteer: Annual Bay Area Fungus Fair. Lawrence Hall of Science, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA and Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, California