In my role as Assistant Director of Research at the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University, I support school-wide research initiatives, faculty scholarship, interdisciplinary collaboration, and research capacity-building. My work includes helping researchers identify funding opportunities, strengthen proposals, build collaborations, and develop strategic approaches to advancing research impact.

I am especially interested in how schools, departments, and institutions can build research ecosystems that are proactive, connected, and responsive to faculty needs.

Mentoring has been a central thread across my career. I use the term mentoring broadly to include in-person mentoring, e-mentoring, peer mentoring, group mentoring, and other forms of structured developmental support.

My work examines how mentoring can build community, strengthen persistence, support professional identity development, and help students navigate complex academic and career pathways. I am especially interested in how digital and hybrid mentoring can expand access to support for students who may not fit traditional assumptions about campus life, including online students, adult learners, first-generation students, international students, working students, and students balancing family responsibilities.

My forthcoming book, Beyond the Campus: The Power of E-Mentoring in Modern Higher Education, co-authored with Blue Brazelton, explores how e-mentoring can help higher education institutions build more intentional, inclusive, and sustainable systems of support.

I believe student success is not only about academic performance. It is also about connection, confidence, identity, access to information, and the presence of people who help students see possible futures.

Through my mentoring programs, research, and professional practice, I focus on creating structures that help students feel supported, build skills, access opportunities, and persist through uncertainty.

I am increasingly interested in how artificial intelligence is changing the way students, faculty, and professionals seek guidance, build relationships, and develop their careers.

My work in this area asks how AI can support — but not replace — human connection. I am especially interested in how mentors and mentees can use AI thoughtfully to improve preparation, reflection, communication, and professional development while preserving trust, care, and relational depth.

I co-founded the ACE Scholars Program in 2021 through the Arizona Cancer Evolution Center at ASU. The program combines scientific mentoring, research training, R statistics tutorials, professional development, and community-building for both in-person and online students. For more information, please visit our website.

I co-founded the Cooperation Scholars Program in 2022 through the Cooperation Lab and Cooperation Science Network, both directed by Dr. Athena Aktipis at ASU. The program introduces students to cooperation science, research methods, interdisciplinary inquiry, and professional development.

This article reframes mentoring as a cooperative system and proposes four principles for building mentoring relationships and programs that are inclusive, sustainable, and developmentally meaningful.

This article examines how students are using artificial intelligence in higher education, including perceived benefits, emerging risks, and implications for teaching, learning, and academic support.

This collaborative replication project reflects my early work in open science, research training, and collaborative approaches to psychological science.

This article presents fitness interdependence as a conceptual framework for understanding cooperation, including forms of mutual dependence that extend beyond traditional models of kinship or reciprocity.