As a Silicon Valley ACS as an alternate councilor, I hope to increase outreach to the local community college systems and offer support and encouragement to our chemistry students, instructors, and staff.
Biography
I am currently a full-time member of the Chemistry department faculty at De Anza College in Cupertino. I grew up on the Oregon Coast and received my BA in Chemistry at Reed College, where I worked on crystallography of bacterial manganese-responsive transcriptional regulators. My doctoral work at MIT focused on the manganese- and zinc-binding properties of S100 proteins, and I spent two years as a postdoc researcher at UC Berkeley. I have been teaching a variety of chemistry classes– including transfer-level classes for science majors, general education classes, and surveys of organic and biochemistry for health sciences majors– at De Anza College since the fall of 2017. I have been attending chapter events regularly since moving to Silicon Valley. I have particularly enjoyed the annual picnic and the home brew competition sponsored by the YCC.