This project has been a year-long effort to document the novel teaching style of the  Oppression-Resistance Lab, in which I occupied several leadership, teaching, and mentorship positions as a lab manager and teacher's assistant. This lab documents novel strategies of a collaborative research environment in political science through the use of online communication tools, opportunities for students to teach one another, celebrating mistakes, and is built on a strong community of mutual respect and support.  This lab has attempted to make political science research opportunities more accessible for students across a variety of universities, including Emory University, the University of Washington, and the University of New Mexico. Expected submission September 2022.

A large part I played in this lab has been to create a culture based on mutual respect with coders, as well as to teach coding of text-as-data in a beginner-friendly way with engaging videos from popular culture to situate research context, visual images to associate with codes, collaborative "coding" boards as facilitated with online video meetings, and one where students feel open to asking questions when they are struggling, and feel comfortable admitting mistakes. This lab invigorated my passion for teaching, and played a large role in shaping why I want to be a professor: to help students discover a passion of asking interesting questions,  to engage in critical thinking and problem solving to develop methods to answer them, and to find their voices and confidence in their ability to conduct research. In an age of information war, research is a fundamental skill that must be accessible to all, and this project challenges the pedagogy of political science structures to make research more approachable to beginniners.