Current Focus Areas: Community health outcomes and interventions, mental health, environmental inequity and long-term impacts of environmental pollution.
Current Projects:
Social Media and AI’s Impact on Digital and Health Literacy: Looking to understand the current landscape of sharing health information on social media and AI’s role in increasing health understanding.
Healthy Extension for Diabetes: a community education intervention for Type II Diabetes in Tennessee facilitated by University of Tennessee Extension and Clemson University.
Lively Communities, Thriving People: a community-engaged project looking to address the systemic challenges in rural community food access by working with community partners to develop community gardens and create regional partnerships.
BeMore TN Project, a CDC-funded project in Partnership with the Tennessee Department of Health and the University of Tennessee Extension Offices to address high obesity populations in Tennessee.
Past Projects:
La Crosse Virus Encephalitis (Dr. Rebecca Trout Fryxell’s lab), MEGA:BITESS Program, Creating a Backyard Buzz (Independent Project)
Presentations and Awards:
October 2019 – 1st Place Recognition in the Tennessee Entomological Society Competition for Undergraduate Presentations.
April 2020 – EUReKA at the University of Tennessee – Had to withdraw due to COVID-19.
August 2021 – Virtual Presentation at Discovery Day
April 2022 – EUReKA at the University of Tennessee – Backyard Buzz Independent Research Presentation
May 2022 – Creating a Backyard Buzz is published on TRACE via UT Publishing
October 2024 – Presenting Lively Communities, Thriving People initiative to the University of Tennessee’s Community Engagement Academy
November 2024 – Awarded Finalist at the University of Tennessee’s 3 Minute Thesis Competition, sharing about Rural Food Insecurity
December 2024 – Master’s Thesis Portfolio Presentation
