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I am incredibly passionate about community engagement and outreach and have been grateful to have connected with my various communities through time in this way. I look forward to more outreach opportunities in graduate school. If you are interested in having myself or my lab at an event, please feel free to reach out to me!
I am incredibly passionate about community engagement and outreach and have been grateful to have connected with my various communities through time in this way. I look forward to more outreach opportunities in graduate school. If you are interested in having myself or my lab at an event, please feel free to reach out to me!
Merging music and science
As a violinist in CSU’s orchestra, I have expanded my pollinator conservation outreach into creative community spaces beyond traditional classrooms and science festivals. Most recenently, I helped develop a pollinator-themed concert and outreach event that brings together music and science communication. On April 26th, 2026, we presented The Birds and the Bees, a hybrid concert and tabling event featuring nine local organizations focused on bee conservation, bird conservation, and native gardening, along with native wildflower seed donations from nurseries across the Front Range. This project created opportunities for audience members to engage directly with local experts and learn simple, actionable ways to support pollinator habitat in their own backyards. I have also collaborated with the Fort Collins Community Orchestra during their spring 2025 concert to distribute native flowering seed mixes to attendees, encouraging audience members to plant them and support native pollinators by increasing native floral resources in their yards.
As a violinist in CSU’s orchestra, I have expanded my pollinator conservation outreach into creative community spaces beyond traditional classrooms and science festivals. Most recenently, I helped develop a pollinator-themed concert and outreach event that brings together music and science communication. On April 26th, 2026, we presented The Birds and the Bees, a hybrid concert and tabling event featuring nine local organizations focused on bee conservation, bird conservation, and native gardening, along with native wildflower seed donations from nurseries across the Front Range. This project created opportunities for audience members to engage directly with local experts and learn simple, actionable ways to support pollinator habitat in their own backyards. I have also collaborated with the Fort Collins Community Orchestra during their spring 2025 concert to distribute native flowering seed mixes to attendees, encouraging audience members to plant them and support native pollinators by increasing native floral resources in their yards.
Outreach and engagement in graduate school
At CSU, I have tabled with my lab at several festivals across Denver - including events at the Denver Botanic Gardens and the Globeville-Elyria-Swansea Spring Festival - to excite children and their families about pollinators and conservation. At these events, I co-led an initiative to distribute hundreds of handmade pocket pollinator field guides to the public. As well, I have enjoyed sharing native bee ecology and conservation as an invited speaker for CSU student-run organizations like The Wildlife Society Student Chapter.
At CSU, I have tabled with my lab at several festivals across Denver - including events at the Denver Botanic Gardens and the Globeville-Elyria-Swansea Spring Festival - to excite children and their families about pollinators and conservation. At these events, I co-led an initiative to distribute hundreds of handmade pocket pollinator field guides to the public. As well, I have enjoyed sharing native bee ecology and conservation as an invited speaker for CSU student-run organizations like The Wildlife Society Student Chapter.
My passion for outreach began in my undergraduate
Through undergrad, I had various opportunities for outreach. I interned with Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and had the privilege of tabling at events across the entire state of Florida, interacting with thousands of community members on the importance of gopher tortoise and indigo snake conservation. I also worked with Finding Fluorescence, a community science database which documents novel biofluorescence occurrences in organisms. While working with this database, I had the chance to engage with the public via presentations and tabling.
Through undergrad, I had various opportunities for outreach. I interned with Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and had the privilege of tabling at events across the entire state of Florida, interacting with thousands of community members on the importance of gopher tortoise and indigo snake conservation. I also worked with Finding Fluorescence, a community science database which documents novel biofluorescence occurrences in organisms. While working with this database, I had the chance to engage with the public via presentations and tabling.
Above and below: The Birds and the Bees orchestra concert and outreach event.
I am so grateful to have had the chance to plan an entire outreach focused on native bee conservation from the group up! It was an amazing opportunity to merge my identities in science and music.
Some members of the Mola Lab at Big Day of Bugs at the Denver Botanic Gardens in June 2025!
From left to right: Olivia, Nicki, John, Hannah, Madi, Keirs.
It was a treat to share my research as an invited speaker with the CSU Wildlife Soceity Student Chapter!
Explaining the difference in color patterns between bumblebee species in Colorado at the Globeville-Elyria-Swansea Spring Festival in Denver, Colorado.
Interacting with students at the Black Homeschoolers of Central Florida Community Expo while in my undergraduate degree.
Tabling at a community event with Florida Fish and Wildlife on the importance of gopher tortoise and indigo snake conservation!
During undergrad, I had the chance to present the findings of Finding Fluorescence as well as showcase the robust scientific capabilities of community science databases.
My first outreach event in graduate school! Tabling at the Globeville-Elyria-Swansea Spring Festival in Denver, Colorado to educate the public about our native polliantors!
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