I have strong personal commitments to justice, which I enact through sustained community engagement in my research and personal work.

I approach research partnerships with a participatory, community-based research approach, working with educators as co-researchers. I was a Community Based Research Graduate Fellow 2021-22.

As an undergraduate, I planned and led service trips at the Center for Service and Leadership for two years.

After I joined CU as a PhD student, I helped to found United Campus Workers of Colorado, our CU labor union. In 2020, I was elected to the Steering Committee and then elected union secretary, where I served for one year.

I also organize on a weekly basis with SAFE Boulder, a mutual aid group.