Watch my talk at the 2021 Sagan Summer Workshop on the challenges of looking for newborn planets, particularly those embedded in protoplanetary disks around young stars.
I am invested in making the scientific community more diverse, equitable, and accessible — both through efforts to improve the culture internally, and spreading scientific awareness and appreciation to the public. Apart from speaking at events and engaging with the media, I am also the founder of the Caltech Chapter of Towards A More Inclusive Astronomy (TaMIA). We are an organization that promotes inclusivity and empathy by creating safe spaces for discussion, and crafting educational workshops based on narratives from within the astronomy community.
Other organizations I have been involved with include:
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