Excited to share that I’ll be starting a postdoc at NCI’s Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics this month with Pete Kraft as an iCURE fellow! 🎉

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🎉 Yesterday, I successfully defended my dissertation in Genetic Epidemiology! 😊 Thanks as always to my advisors, @genandgenes.bsky.social, my mentors, family, and friends who helped make this happen! And now for some hashtags I’ve been waiting to use for a v long time :) — #PhinisheD #PhDone #Doctor

spent the latter half of this week at UCLA’s Emerging Genomic Scientist Symposium talking about genetics, public health, and science outreach! fav part of academia is hanging out with new and old friends in wonderful places 🏝️ thanks so much to @mfwells.bsky.social and organizers for having us!

keeping up with ~current events~ and trying to finish a dissertation

Science communication influences every part of our science too, in ways we can and can’t always see. Last week I gave a short presentation on the value of scicomm for trainee scientists and thought about what those influences may look like (see below). We should be having these conversations often!