AV狼

Dr. O focuses on enhancing student learning, development, and experience by challenging students to become meaningfully engaged in their course work and extracurricular activities. Her courses include many hands-on-learning components which allow students to observe newly learned concepts, research evidence, and theories in action.

She is the co-founder and faculty mentor of the Kinesiology Research Group (KRG), a student research group which uses authentic outside-of-the-classroom research experiences as a vehicle to develop disciplinary expertise as well as various foundational professional skills such as: communication, teamwork, leadership, timeliness, and self-regulation. From 2017-23, she served as the Director of AV狼's Center for Student Research, growing the Center substantially with respect to student programs, student and faculty engagement, and funding. Currently, Dr. O is the PI on the US Department of Education grant-funded CSUEB B.E.T. McNair Scholars Program (2022-27). 

As someone who credits much of her own learning and development to exceptional faculty mentors, Dr. O is passionate about student mentoring and actively mentors students from a variety of majors, undergraduate and graduate students in Kinesiology, as well as Pioneer student-athletes.