I am extremely passionate about giving back to the community. I think it is so important to be open minded and to put ourselves in the shoes of people with very different backgrounds and experiences from us. I also believe it is very important to foster a sense of community and to provide ample opportunities to people of all backgrounds to help them achieve their goals. I have been involved in many service and outreach projects to this end during my time at Princeton University.

The Mental Health Initiative

The undergraduate student government (USG) at Princeton University hosted a launch for their mental health initiative (MHI) on Friday, April 15th, 2022. The launch was attended by faculty, staff, administrators, and undergraduate students and was intended to facilitate positive change for the mental health of undergraduate students. I was invited as the faculty speaker at this launch. A video of my speech is available here.

Social Chair on the Lawrence Apartments Committee

Lawrence Apartments is a residential community for graduate students in Princeton University. I was elected as the Social Chair of the Lawrence Committee by the residential community to serve during the year 2018 (https://lawrence.princeton.edu/2018/01/lawrence-election-results/). As Social Chair, I organized and advertised monthly events for the community with an emphasis on events for families with children. The monthly events included weekend brunches, family movie nights, and Easter and Halloween parties. I also organized weekly yoga for the community in collaboration with Dillon Gym, and communicated questions and concerns of the community as a whole to the rest of the Lawrence Committee and the university administration.

Graduate Student Government

I was elected the Social Chair of the Graduate Student Government (GSG) (and a member of the GSG Executive Committee) by the GSG at Princeton University to serve during the 2017 - 2018 academic year. My primary responsibilities as Social Chair were to organize events to foster interactions between graduate students and to promote diversity and inclusion within the graduate student body. I organized biannual outdoor barbecues and monthly evening socials for the entire graduate student body in coordination with the Graduate School, and catering at monthly GSG meetings. My other responsibilities as social chair were to organize:

Furniture Drive

I organized the annual Furniture Drive at Princeton University in the summer of 2017. The Furniture Drive is a 2 day event where undergraduate students, graduate students, faculty and staff donate furniture that they no longer plan on using, and/or pick up new furniture items that they will use in the future. I coordinated the tents where people deposited their furniture, coordinated with local charities in the Princeton and broader New Jersey community in order to donate furniture, and hired people to help out with the event on behalf of the university.

Frist Summer Barbecues

I organized the Frist Summer Barbecues in the summer of 2018. The summer barbecues feature food and themed entertainment, and foster a sense of community for graduate students during the summer, when campus is relatively empty. I hired entertainers weekly on behalf of the university and coordinated with university staff and campus dining to organize sound equipment and food.

Miscellaneous Student Body Activities

I served as the representative of the mathematics graduate student body on the GSG during 2014 - 2017, prior to my term as social chair. I was one of four graduate students elected to serve on the Council of the Princeton University Community (CPUC) in the academic year 2017 - 2018. (A description of the CPUC is at https://cpuc.princeton.edu.) I also served as a member of the Mathematics Department Graduate Student Committee during 2016 - 2019.

Mentoring Möbius Leader

I was a leader in the Mentoring Mobius Program in the Princeton University Mathematics Department in the years 2014 - 2018. Each semester, I mentored a group of 4 - 5 undergraduate students (typically, one freshman, one sophomore, one junior and one senior). I met with these students monthly each semester over lunch/dinner and I discussed my experiences as a graduate student (e.g., mathematics research), discussed mathematics with them (e.g., mathematics in their classes and mathematics beyond what they were studying in their classes), and I gave them career guidance (e.g., applying to REU programs, applying to graduate school, establishing connections with professors etc.).