Mentoring

Mentoring others is one the most rewarding aspects of my career thus far, and I invest a substantial amount of time into mentoring activities. I view mentorship and menteeship as a collaborative effort to create a mutually beneficial, inclusive relationship with specific aligned outcomes and a plan to achieve these outcomes. When it comes to mentoring students and early-career professionals, I focus on three areas: research mentorship, career-growth mentorship, and skill-specific mentorship.

If you are interested in working with me as a research student, I encourage you to first explore our research to identify areas of overlapping interest. If you find an area of interest, I recommend that you collect your schedule for the upcoming semester and ensure that you have at least six hours a week to dedicate to research as an undergraduate student, ten hours a week to dedicate to research as a masters student, or twenty hours a week to dedicate to research as a doctoral student. If you have both the interest and the time, please contact me indicating your research interests and offering a few times when you can meet within the next two weeks of your message.

If you are interested in career-growth mentorship or skill-specific mentorship, please contact me with your CV or resume and a brief description of what your aims are, how long you expect the mentor-mentee relationship to last, and how much time you expect to interact on a weekly basis.

In any case, I strongly encourage you to read about positive and constructive mentor-mentee relationships. I also encourage you to keep in mind that each person has unique strengths, including any potential mentors. It is important that you spend time evaluating a (potential) mentor's strengths, and whether those strengths are directions in which you wish to grow. Finally, it is important to remember that no one mentor can help guide you through all aspects of your life and career. It is important to collect a team of mentors, which may include individuals more senior to you, more junior to you, and peers.