Professional Service

  • National Endowment for the Arts. Presenting & Multidisciplinary Works panel. 04/01/2021 - present
  • American Psychological Association. Mentor for the Interdisciplinary Minority Fellowship Program. 01/01/2021 - present
  • Journal of Social Work Education. Peer Reviewer. 01/01/2014 - present
  • Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research. Peer Reviewer. 01/01/2014 - present
  • Association of Pediatric Oncology Social Workers. Board member as Research and Publication Chair. 07/01/2012 - 06/30/2016

Internal Service

  • Faculty Search Committee, chair, for an assistant career-line faculty with admission focus. Chair, 08/01/2021 - 12/28/2021. College service.
  • Academic Senate Executive Committee. 07/01/2021 - present. University service.
  • CSW Staff Excellence Award Committee. 04/01/2021 - 07/01/2021. College service.
  • MSW Admission Committee. 01/01/2021 - present. College service.
  • Faculty Search Committee. 09/01/2020 - 12/31/2020. College service.
  • Scholarship Committee. 07/01/2020 - 12/01/2021. College service.
  • BSW Program Committee. Member, 08/2019 - present. College service.
  • Academic Senate. 08/2019 - 07/2022. University service.
  • Arts-in-Health Innovation Lab. member, 06/2017 - present. University service.
  • Funding Incentive Seed Grant Program Committee. 06/2017 - 08/2019. University service.
  • MSW Research Sequence Chair. 07/01/2016 - 06/2018. College service.
  • MSW Advisory Committee. member, 07/01/2014 - 08/2018. College service.
  • Faculty representative of the Academic Appeals & Student Review Committee. 01/01/2014 - 08/2018. College service.
  • Member of the PhD Program Committee. 08/20/2012 - present. College service.
  • Investigator, Cancer Control and Population Science, Huntsman Cancer Institute. 08/20/2012 - present. University service.
  • Faculty of the Asian Studies. 08/20/2012 - present. University service.

Community Partnership

  • Granite School District, Granite Peaks Adult Education. 04/01/2021 - present

Honors & Awards

  • A national learning collaborative to engage social work scholars and leaders in learning about and experimenting with futures and foresight frameworks to energize and expand health-related social work thinking and practice for a rapidly changing future. Social Work Health Futures Lab, 12/15/2020
  • honoree in the Research Category, Celebrate U. University of Utah, 04/2018
  • Professor Off Campus. Tanner Humanities Center, 11/01/2016
  • Pilot study on Telehealth Photo Storytelling intervention. University of Utah Faculty Seed Grant, 07/01/2016
  • ​Entrepreneurial Faculty Scholar. University of Utah, 06/01/2016
  • Associate Research Dean's Research Award for Productivity. University of Utah College of Social Work, 05/06/2016
  • Dean's Scholar. University of Southern California, 05/2011

Affiliations

  • Children's Oncology Group (COG), Behavioral Sciences Committee and Minority Affairs Committee, 10/2013 - 05/31/2016
  • Association of Pediatric Oncology Social Workers (APOSW), Research Chair, 07/2012 - 06/30/2016
  • Association of Oncology Social Workers (AOSW), State representative of Utah, 02/2012 - 06/30/2016
  • Cancer Control and Population Sciences (CCPS), Investigator, 08/2011 - present
  • Association of Pediatric Oncology Social Workers (APOSW), member, 06/01/2011 - present