Mentorship
Psychology Mentorship Program
I am the co-founder and chair of the Psychology Mentorship Program at Purdue University. This program began in 2021 as a way to provide underrepresented psychology graduate students with mentoring from current psychology graduate students. To date we have provided mentorship to 100 students. Through this program, we aim to help our students:
1) cultivate a sense of belonging, identity-safety, and positive self-concept within Purdue
2) achieve their academic and professional goals
3) gain knowledge about research opportunities at Purdue and beyond and career paths in psychology
Purdue’s Graduate School Mentoring Fellows Program
I served as the College of Health and Human Sciences graduate student representative in Purdue's Graduate Mentorship Fellows program from January through December 2022. In this role, I sought to recognize strengths and to identify possible opportunities for improvement in mentoring relationships within my college. Specifically, I conducted qualitative interviews with graduate students within the nine units of the college to understand the strengths and weaknesses that they observed in their mentoring relationships. These interviews served as the basis for a set of recommendations that my team and I wrote up to be given to the Graduate School.
Future Mentors Program
In Fall 2022, I was enrolled in a 16 week course that provided me with mentorship training and practicum experience. The Future Mentors Program is designed for Purdue based on a nationally recognized curriculum and aims to prepare graduate students or postdocs who are mentoring or who would like to begin mentoring undergraduates in research.
I was the 2024 Purdue College of Health and Human Sciences Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) Award winner for Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Scholars. This award seeks to promote and recognize those within the college who have gone above and beyond in fostering practices, initiatives, teaching, and/or research that promote DEIB. I was nominated for this award due to my work with this mentorship program.
Being presented with the award by Associate Dean of DEI, Dr. Margo J. Monteith