Undergraduate Teaching Assistant

I have extensive experience in teaching astronomy, starting with my time as an undergraduate at UC Santa Cruz’s ACE program now as a TA for astronomy courses at Yale. My passion lies in creating engaging learning environments and developing practical coding materials for future astronomers.

Teaching has been a big part of my career in astronomy. I started tutoring as an undergraduate for UC Santa Cruz’s Academic Excellence Program (ACE). ACE advances educational equity in STEM by engaging students in active learning, peer mentoring, skill-building, and community development. Now as a graduate student, I am passionate about creating learning environments that are specifically designed to help students engage with the material. I find the best way to learn something is to try and explain it to someone else.

Most recently, I had the pleasure of TAing for ASTR 330. The course is a higher-level Python computing course specific to astrophysics research. It’s meant to provide students with practice building software for the analysis, manipulation, reduction, and visualization of astronomical data. See the course website for more information. Given that coding is such an important part of my day-to-day life, I am very interested in developing useful material for up-and-coming astronomers.

I have also been a teaching assistant for a handful of lower-division astronomy/physics courses at Yale (ASTR 110, ASTR 160, ASTR 170, and ASTR 180).