I am passionate about policy and have been involved at the local, state, and national level.

Local

• Grad Tax, Portland Business Journal https://www.bizjournals.com/portland/news/2017/12/06/ohsu-student-prof-say-republican-tax-bill-could.html

• Grad Tax, OHSU News https://news.ohsu.edu/2017/12/13/repealing-the-graduate-tuition-waiver-will-force-me-others-to-leave-ohsu

  https://news.ohsu.edu/2017/12/01/standing-with-our-graduate-students

• Grad Tax, Reuters https://www.reuters.com/article/column-marksjarvis-education-idUKL1N1OD18B

State

• Oregon Medical Association: member of the Equity Task Force; Structural Racism Workgroup; and Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion committee

  • Co-authored policy on Protections for LGBTQ Health Professionals

  • Co-authored policy on Support for Gender-Affirming and LGBTQ+ Health

  • Co-authored policy on Training Health Professionals on LGBTQ+ Topics

National

• 2022 Mirzayan Policy Fellow

• 2022-2023, Consultant for the Action Collaborative on Preventing Sexual Harassment in Higher Education; The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

  • Consultant Writer for Approaches to the Evaluation of Sexual Harassment Prevention and Response Efforts.

• 2022-2023, Consultant for the National Academy of Medicine working with HelpAge International

  • Voice and Healthy Longevity

• Society for Neuroscience: 2017 Early Career Policy Ambassador, Advocacy Key Contact for Oregon, 4th place in Neuroadvocate Challenge

• American Physician Scientists Association (APSA) Policy Committee member, Vice Chair 2020-2022

• Marr M, Wooten L, Sandhu N. Position Paper on the use of the Medical College Admissions Test during the COVID-19 Pandemic. American Medical Women’s Association. 2020 July