Search Committee Member: Broadcast Engineer (2024)
Shortlisted possible candidates from an initial pool of applicants.
Collaborated with the production faculty in candidate selection.
Was part of the Zoom and in-person interviews.
Graduate Communication Association (GCA) President (2023-2024)
Supervised and mentored graduate students who were elected as officers.
Engaged in work by multiple subcommittees such as the events subcommittee, by-laws subcommittee, transition documents subcommittee etc.
Conducted a survey of all graduate students and produced a report outlining challenges faced by them in their graduate student journey.
Organized multiple social, academic, and professional development sessions and workshops throughout the academic year.
Developed an initiative to rewrite the organization by-laws and achieved it.
Designed and produced the organization’s Weekly Newsletter ‘Nutshell’.
Designed the call for programs, flyers, and conference program.
Collaborated with the Treasurer of GCA to acquire funding of $2500 for the organization’s annual conference from Graduate Student Senate (GSS), Student Organization Allocation Board, and the School.
Graduate Communication Association Conference (GCA) Committee Chair (2022-2023)
Organized the 10th Annual Conference of GCA, BGSU and developed the theme ‘Transformations: Devising Inclusive Futures’ for the conference.
Managed the 40-member hybrid (in-person + virtual) two-day event.
Planned and executed various workshops on pedagogy, computational methods, graduate student well-being, and film analysis.
Collaborated with multiple teams such as the registration team, administrative team, finances team, technology team, and the social media team.
Included creative submissions for the first time ever at a GCA conference.
Collaborated with the graduate student co-ordinator and the acting director of the School of Media and Communication to acquire funding for the luncheon on both days of the conference.
Collaborated with the Treasurer of GCA to acquire funding for the event from Graduate Student Senate (GSS).
Graduate Communication Association Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Representative (2022-2024)
Designed and distributed diverse weekly research and pedagogy resources for graduate students to help make their work more inclusive.
Co-designed and led the workshop DEI Turntables: Ideas Worth Integrating, an interactive workshop where DEI ideas are shared and discussed.
Co-designed and created three surveys for undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty, to gather information on the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) climate and experiences at the School of Media and Communication, BGSU.
Graduate Communication Association Representative to Graduate Student Senate (2022-2023)
Acted as a liaison between the graduate students at School of Media and Communication and the Graduate Student Senate (GSS) of BGSU.
Attended General Assembly meetings and represented issues related to graduate teaching assistant stipend and health insurance pertaining to international and domestic Communication graduate students.
Reviewer for the Journal of Film and Video (2024)
Reviewed papers for publication in the journal.
Reviewer for the Central States Communication Association (CSCA) Conference (2023-2024)
Reviewed papers for the Intercultural Communication Division.
Reviewed papers for the G.I.F.T.S. Interest Group.
Reviewer for the International Communication Association (ICA) Conference (2023)
Reviewed papers for the Media Industry Division.
The Hatch – Communication Mentor (2022)
Trained my undergraduate mentee in the process of speech writing and pitch preparation.
Ideated and designed the required presentation materials and contributed to the Hatchling (mentee) winning her business investment.
National Online Championship – Debate Judge (2022)
Judged two debate sessions between students belonging to various universities.