SERVICE
I believe that my professional and community service go hand-in-hand, and consider both to be equal facets of my service profile.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
I currently serve as faculty advisor to the St. Mary's University Philosophy Society and Phi Sigma Tau Philosophy Honors Society (TX Lambda chapter).
Some examples of my service to the profession include:
serving as a judge for the 2023 Texas Regional Ethics Bowl hosted at St. Mary's University.
serving as a Webinar/Technology Coordinator for the 2022 Latina/x Feminisms Roundtable, organized by Professor Mariana Ortega and held at The Pennsylvania State University
speaking as an invited panelist for the 2021 CSUF Philosophy Club's "Grad School Conversations" event
serving as an invited graduate assistant and panelist Rutgers' Summer Institute for Diversity in Philosophy in 2019 and 2020
working with Penn State's Student Restorative Justice Initiative (sRJI) during the 2017-18 academic year, which included visiting State Correctional Institution Benner Township (SCI-Benner) to observe Professor Eduardo Mendieta's class, "The Quest of the Hero"
While a student at Cal State Fullerton, I ran the Feminist Reading Group on campus and served as a board member of the department's Philosophy Club, for both of which I organized readings and discussions on topics in intersectional feminisms, feminist epistemology, and Latinx philosophy. I also participated as a student commentator in and/or helped to organize the Annual Cal State Fullerton Philosophy Symposium for three consecutive years (2015, 2016, 2017).
COMMUNITY SERVICE
Though I've participated in a wide variety of community service work over the years, I am particularly passionate about language and literacy education and advocacy. In Southern California, through CSUF's Project SHINE, I worked as a volunteer ESL instructor in North Orange Continuing Education's English as a Second Language (ESL)/Citizenship Program. I very much look forward to continuing similar work in language and literacy education/advocacy in the future.
I am also an artist, and seek to contribute my artwork to serve community projects. In California, I donated numerous pieces over the years for the All the Arts for All the Kids Foundation annual auctions for arts education, the proceeds from which provide funds for local arts grants and lessons. While living in Pennsylvania, I illustrated a children's book written by a local author, Hannah Evans, for Appalachian youth coping with loved ones struggling with substance use disorders. The book received West Virginia University's Rural Communities Opioid Response Grant in 2022, and has been featured on Good Day PA! and the WV Charleston Gazette.
