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 2023 & September 2022.
Faculty Judge, University of Montana GradCon. Spring 2023.
Faculty Judge, University of Montana Conference of Undergraduate Research. 2021-2023
Participating Member, Center for Health Communication Think Tank, a collaboration of the University of Texas at Austin and Dell Medical Center. September 2020-current.
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
Invited Guest Lecturer, Strategic Communication Theory class, University of Minnesota Strategic M.A. program, April 2022 & April 2023
Distinguished Speaker, McGovern Lecture Series, Center for Health Communication at the University of Texas-Austin, February 2023
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.
Manuscript Reviewer, Personal Relationships, Health Communication, Journal of Mixed Methods Research, International Journal of Behavioral Medicine.
Manuscript Reviewer, Health Communication Division of the National Communication Association. 2019-current.
Graduate Student Representative, Health Communication Division of the National Communication Association. Nov. 2018 - Nov. 2019.