TEACHINGS AND INVITED TALKS (SELECTED)
Fall 2019
TEACHING ASSISTANT, NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
TA for the Media, Communication, and environment course, undergraduate level.
Summer 2019
TEACHING ASSISTANT, NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
TA for video editing course as a part of the Research Communication Training.
Summer 2019
WORKSHOP FACILITATOR, COMSCICON NATIONAL
Facilitating an interactive workshop in developing empathy skills as scientists.
Winter 2019
INSTRUCTOR, NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
A Compassionate Scientist’s Toolkit: A research credit course for an undergraduate student.
Spring 2019
STORYTELLER, THE STORY COLLIDER PODCAST
A story about a new planet, an immigrant, and breaking a car with one’s knee.
Summer 2018
WORKSHOP FACILITATOR, COMSCICON - IONS
Co-organizing and co-facilitating a science communication workshop.
Spring 2018
TEACHING ASSISTANT, NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
TA for the Health Communication course, undergraduate level.
2016 - Present
WORKSHOP FACILITATOR, ADLER PLANETARIUM
Quarterly workshops, teaching science communication and storytelling to speakers of the Adler Planetarium's Space Visualization Lab.
Winter 2016
WORKSHOP FACILITATOR, BRAVE INITIATIVES
Public Speaking Skills for young girls interested in social impact.
2012 - 2015
WOKSHOP FACILITATOR, SEPAS NGO
Ongoing workshops for volunteers and professionals in field of cancer advocacy and health communication, located in Tehran, Iran.
2012 - 2015
WORKSHOP FACILITATOR, IMAM ALI NGO
Workshops for volunteers working with children experiencing chronic illness, located in Tehran, Iran.
COMMUNITY ORGANIZER AND LEADERSHIP (SELECTED)
2019 - Present
PRODUCER, THE STORY COLLIDER
“Story Collider is a non-profit dedicated to true, personal stories about science.”
2018 - Present
FOUNDER AND FACILITATOR, TEA AND TALK
Mental health support group for grad students at the school of communication.
2016 - Present
CHAIR AND ORGANIZER, COMSCICON
A workshop series for graduate students, focused on science communication skills. I have been involved with the Chicago flagship as chair and organizer and with the national workshop as organizer.
2012 - 2015
PROJECT MANAGER, SEPAS NGO
Managed and proposed the cancer prevention and palliative care campaign, renewal of Fars hospice’s meditation room, and medical-info translation team.
2012 - 2015
PROJECT MANAGER, IMAM ALI NGO
Managing new volunteers for the play/art therapy sessions at children hospitals.
SKILLS
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP
ADOBE PREMIERE
AUDITION AUDITION
VIDEOGRAPHY
HTML
CSS
FARSI (NATIVE)
ENGLISH (FLUENT)
GERMAN (INTERMEDIATE)
ARABIC (ELEMENTARY)
SPSS
R
ATLAS.TI
OTHER EXPERIENCES
Summer 2017
COPY WRITER, SCIENCE NINJA BOARDGAME
2013 - 2015
GRIEF FACILITATOR, FARS HOSPICE
2013 - 2016
COPY WRITER, WORLD WRITERS
2012 - 2013
COPY WRITER, CREATIVE PRODUCER, MAGNOLIA ADVERTISING AGENCY
2008 - 2014
FARSI INTERPRETER/ASSISTANT, NYT, WSJ, SPIEGEL, STERN, ARTE
2006 - 2007