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Academic Service
For the last two years I have served on the Annenberg Communication Graduate Student Association (ACGSA) board, first as the vice president and subsequently as the post-quals representative. In my roles there, I have tried to improve our ability to collaborate and navigate our PhD program by creating community websites to share information about student, research, teaching, and professional resources. From 2008 to 2009, I also served as the Annenberg senator for the USC Graduate and Professional Student Senate (GPSS).
Community Service
For several years, I have been working with Community Health Councils, Inc., a non-profit based in South Los Angeles, on an evaluation using social network analytic techniques. We aim to create a strong academic community partnership that creates good research while providing fast and pertinent feedback to the community.
I'm also assisting the BBC World Service Trust, the charity established by the BBC, in using structural equation models to test the efficacy of their public communication campaigns. In particular, I have examined the Jasoos Vijay and Condom Normalization campaigns in India. In this role, I have traveled to London, Uganda, and India to teach social network analysis and structural equation modeling to members of their Research & Learning Group.
Professional Affiliations
I am currently a member of four professional and academic associations: