Campus and Community Service

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

Judge, Northwest Public Power Association Excellence in Communications Contest, Sept. 2022 and July 2023

Faculty Reviewer, University of Montana Experiential Learning Scholarship Fund Review Committee, 2023-2024

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-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 

Invited Guest Lecturer, Rutgers University Interpersonal and Relational Facets of Health Communication (Communication 505/673), October 2023

Invited Guest Lecturer, University of Georgia Theories of Interpersonal Communication graduate seminar (COMM 8500), October 2023

Invited Guest Lecturer, Strategic Communication Theory class, University of Minnesota Strategic M.A. program, April 2022, 2023, 2024

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.

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