# Service Outside of the lab, I am a passionate advocate for underrepresented STEM engagement at all levels. After a three year term as treasurer of Women In Machine Learning, Inc, I have moved to the senior advisory council. As a student, I held a variety of leadership positions in the National Society of Black Engineers at both the local and national levels including National Academic Excellence Chair. ::::{grid} 2 :gutter: 2 :::{grid-item-card} CS @ URI Talent Development URI's [Talent Development Program](https://web.uri.edu/talentdevelopment/) recruits and serves Rhode Island high school graduates with college potential who come from historically disadvantaged backgrounds, a majority of whom are Scholars of color. Since 2022, I have lead the Computer Science & Statistics Department's Participation in their Summer Success Program. In this capacity, I plan our component for Computer Science and Data Science majors during the Exploration Academy. ::: :::{grid-item-card} ACM Fairness, Accountability, Transparency I served as the 2021 FAccT Virtual Experience Chair for the fully virtual conference and 2022-2024 Diversity and Inclusion co-Chair. ::: :::{grid-item-card} the Carpentries I became a certified Carpentries instructor in November 2017 and in 2018-2020 I served on the Lesson Infrastructure Committee. I became a trainer in 2019 and served on an ad hoc committee to develop a leadership structure by invitation starting in 2020. In 2021 and 2022 I was elected to the Trainers Leadership Committee, where I served as the first chair. ::: :::{grid-item-card} Women in Machine Learning In 2016 I joined the WiML Board, I served as the Treasurer from 2016 until March 2019. In this capacity, I formalized our financial practices, built a finance committee, and established a direct funding for general administrative support. I served as a co-organizer for the 2014 [Women in Machine Learning Workshop](http://www.wimlworkshop.org/), the 9th Annual WiML was again co-located with [NeurIPS](http://nips.cc). 聽As the Finance and Sponsorship chair, I lead聽our efforts to secure聽corporate sponsorship聽and our sponsor relations. ::: :::{grid-item-card} National Society of Black Engineers I've been an active member of [NSBE](http://nsbe.org)聽since fall 2006 serving in numerous leadership positions at both the chapter and national levels. In 2016, I led聽a series of professional development workshops for the executive board of the Northeastern University chapter, the Black Engineering Student Society. 聽Topics included:</p> - Task management &amp; internal procedures for a team - Fundraising/ Money Management (specialized to Northeastern/NSBE) - Academic skills: developing your personal study plan - Workshop workshop: how to plan effective workshops for general body meetings - Establishing, recruiting and delegating to a committee - Time management as a student leader - Developing Professional Communication Protocol As the National Academic Excellence Chair for 2014-15, I served as a member of the board of directors. I lead a team of six appointees and six regional counterparts to聽oversee the聽long term planning for and the implementation of programs to support members' pursuit of academic excellence. As Vice Chair to the Empowering African American Women in STEM Task Force in 2013-14, I facilitated the effort聽to pinpoint areas that聽 the society should focus its efforts to be the most impactful in engaging more women in STEM. In 2013-14 I served as the Collegiate Initiative Chair for [NSBE Boston](http://www.nsbeboston.org/), in this capacity I served as a liaison for area collegiate chapters to the local professional chapter. ::: :::{grid-item-card} Student Research Engangement Committee As founding chair through 2015, I lead a team of students to work with the Engineering Dean's office to increase student engagement in research, specifically聽undergraduate involvement and graduate ownership,聽within the college by providing resources and hosting educational workshops. 聽Some of our most successful initiatives include a workshop for students applying to Research Experience for Undergraduates programs, a college wide undergraduate lab fair, and an experimental design workshop for engineering graduate students. ::: ::::