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Post-Doctoral Fellow Training and Outreach (2018-2019)                                        

 

BEACH EROSION AUTHORITY CONTROL (BEACON) - Ventura, CA                                  

Created a series of educational talks for Elected Officials regarding Climate Change Adaptation policy and the use of different governmental strategies for funding and implementation of adaptation plans.

                                                                                                              

Teacher Assistant / Research Assistant (2013-2014) 

KECK SCHOOL OF MEDICINE - University of Southern California (USC)

                                                  

• HP400. “Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Studies: Culture, Lifestyle, and Health” Assisted in the teaching, curricula, and didactic materials design for the comparison of national and international differences in health status, as influenced by cultural practices and lifestyles within different geographic, economic and political environments.

 

• PM508. “Preventive Medicine: Health Service Delivery in the U.S.” Assisted in the teaching, curricula design, and multiplatform programming of didactic materials for in-person and online instruction; Implemented Electronic Blackboard Programming, Moodle, Adobe-Acrobat, Adobe-Online, YouseeU, Excel, PPP, and MS Word documents for the historical development of the American health care system; instructed students in theory, labs,  and practical application of determinants of health care utilization, the role of health care providers, health policy, public health services, and health care finance.

 

• PM525. “Preventive Medicine: Culture and Health: Global Perspectives.” Assisted main Instructors with multiplatform programming of GradeBook and other didactic materials for in-person and online instruction; utilized Moodle and Excel programming to streamline the lecture preparation and online grading processes; advised students on international variations in health status with a focus on the impact of socioeconomic status, politics, environment, education, and gender in etiology of illness, access to health care, progression of disease, and recovery.

 

• HP320. “Health Promotion: Biological and Behavioral Basis of Disease.” Guided and supported students in the examination of the major systems of the human body, disease processes, and behavioral risk factors.

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SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, DORNSIFE COLLEGE OF LETTERS, ARTS, AND SCIENCES, DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY, USC (2011-2012)

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•  IR323 Politics of Global Environment (4) Examines the politics of managing the global environment. The nature of ecosystems, common problems, population and resource utilization problems along with biodiversity and global governance are emphasized.

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• IR386 Terrorism and Counterterrorism (4) Examination of the nexus of terrorist threat and governmental response. Specifically, the class analyzes both terrorism’s effectiveness as a means to achieve political change and the challenges faced by the liberal democratic state in responding to international terrorist campaigns.

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•  IR307 Contemporary International Politics (4) Recent events, forces, and conditions in the international political system. Basic organizing concepts used in the analysis of the data of international politics.

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• IR364 The Political Economy of Latin American Development (4) The main economic development themes and strategies in Latin American over the past century. The interplay between domestic and international variables, and the resulting dynamic changes.

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• IR365 Politics and Democracy in Latin America (4) Examines Latin America's experience with democracy emphasizing events since the 1980s. Analyzes the roles of interest groups, ideology, domestic politics, bureaucratic processes, perceptions and analogical reasoning.

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• IR366 Mexico and its Relations with the United States (4) Analysis of Mexico and U.S.-Mexico relations, both historically and in the present day, to understand better the challenges in this key bilateral relationship.

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DORNSIFE COLLEGE OF LETTERS, ARTS, AND SCIENCES, DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY, USC    (2000-2006) 

                

• GEOG 260Lg: Natural Hazards. Introduction to the complex relationship between human development and natural hazards, which are increasingly causing damage and displacement to human populations throughout the world. Natural hazards do not affect all equally. This course study both hazards and disasters such as earthquakes, wild fires, floods, landslides, storms and hurricanes. Why they exist, what may trigger them, how to mitigate, respond and recover from them addressing issues of social vulnerability and environmental justice as well.

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* Successfully taught natural hazards labs and GIS technology application for student loads of over three hundred per semester; provided additional academic and strategic support to assigned students, developing proprietary teaching techniques that consistently resulted in higher levels of academic performance compared to students managed by peers; participated in the creation and administration of “Natural Hazards” general education class curriculum, which was awarded the Best Practice Award for Distance Learning Programming (Gold, National Level) by the United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA).

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