Service & Community Involvement

Like most scholars and professors, I often venture outside of the lab/classroom to share expertise, brainpower and manpower with the community.

 

Campus and Community Service

Volunteer, United We Eat Missoula. June 2021-current.

Judge, Northwest Public Power Association Excellence in Communications Contest, July 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026

Faculty Reviewer, University of Montana Experiential Learning Scholarship Fund Review Committee, 2023-current

Faculty Judge, University of Montana GradCon. Spring 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026

Faculty Judge, University of Montana Conference of Undergraduate Research. 2021-2026

Active Member, Center for Health Communication Think Tank, a collaboration of the University of Texas at Austin and Dell Medical Center. September 2020-September 2023.

Application Evaluator, UCare Undergraduate Research Funding Competition, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Read and ranked faculty proposals for summer 2019 undergraduate research opportunities. Spring and Summer 2019.

Panel Speaker, With Purpose + UNL movie screening and discussion on pediatric cancer. Invited to discuss communication challenges faced by families of chronically ill children. March 2018.

Weekly Volunteer, People’s City Mission Medical Clinic and People’s City Mission. Lincoln, Neb. February 2018-July 2019.

Co-Chair, Graduate Travel Award Program committee, University of Nebraska Graduate Student Assembly. Lead the largest money-granting committee of the Graduate Student Assembly through three award cycles. May 2017-May 2018.

Departmental Representative, University of Nebraska Graduate Student Assembly. August 2016-May 2018.


Academic Service 

University of Montana IRB Member (Alternate), Fall 2025-current

Editorial Board Member, Journal of Personal and Social Relationships, Health Communication

Secretary, Health Communication Division, National Communication Association, 2024-current

Secretary, Health Communication Interest Group, Western States Communication Association. 2022-2024.

Award Selection Committee Member, Health Communication Division of the National Communication Association. 2019 & 2023.

Graduate Student Representative, Health Communication Division of the National Communication Association. Nov. 2018 - Nov. 2019.

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