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October 2024: Guest Lectured for Northeastern’s EXRE 5010: Immersive Media: XR History, Theory, and Impact Course on “Digital Self-Representation and Embodiment in Social VR”

June 2024: Began Research Scientist Internship at Microsoft on the Speaking the World into Existence project

March 2024: Guest Lectured for Stanford’s AMSTUD 106B: Black Mirror: A.I.Activism Course on “Dancing through Time: Towards Designing an Immersive Experience Illuminating Black Dance Histories and Futures in Mixed Reality”

February 2024: Guest Lectured for Northeastern’s EXRE 5010: Immersive Media: XR History, Theory, and Impact Course on “Digital Self-Representation and Embodiment in Social VR”

September 2023: Panelist for the University of Waterloo Games Institute's Panel on Emerging Voices in Black Game Studies

May 2023: Guest Lectured for Stanford’s CS 377E: Designing Solutions to Global Grand Challenges Course on “Understanding Disparities in Avatar Racial Representation and Embodiment in Social VR”

March 2023: Spotlighted in Duke Innovation and Entrepreneurship’s International Women’s Day Campaign and received the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.

October 2022: Published article in XRDS: Crossroads, The ACM Magazine for Students on “Learning about VR in VR”

July 2022: Guest Lectured for Stanford’s Designing the Future of Virtual Worlds Course on “Avatars and Virtual Selves”, presented at Cornell’s SoNIC Summer Research workshop, spoke on Intel’s Metaverse in K12 Education Panel, and was awarded the Stanford Technology & Racial Equity Graduate Fellowship

March 2022: Guest Lectured for MIT’s Virtualizing the Human Body Course on “Education in the Metaverse: Stanford’s Virtual People Course”

November 2021: Co-presented at Stanford’s Art + Tech Salon on building classes and news worlds in VR and featured in the Stanford Daily’s Stanford launches first class taught completely in virtual reality article

September 2021: Became a TA for Jeremy Bailenson’s Virtual People course, one of the first and largest courses to be taught almost entirely in VR

July 2021: Featured in the Cornell Chronicle’s Summer CIS programs foster diversity, community article