Service & Community Involvement


Georgia State University Honors Initiative, Officer
[2023 – present]


IEEE SoutheastCon Volunteer
[2024]

  • Volunteered at help desk. Checked in attendees and directed them to events.

Community Service through LiveMusicByEvan
[2021 – 2023]

  • Performed free annual private outdoor shows for a community member who is immunocompromised and limited in her ability to go out in public . I know how important music can be to help lift the spirits of families dealing with major life-impacting medical conditions.
  • Provided free piano lessons to beginning student who was unable to pay for lessons.

Cary Teen Council
[2016 – 2023]

  • Served the Town of Cary, NC by volunteering in over 55 community events including food drives, fun runs, community cleanup, and more. Attended info sessions on town government, history, and operation.

  • Led discussions and offered suggestions each year as part of small planning team for the Town of Cary’s annual Herbert’s Haunted House.
  • Participated in annual haunted house as scarer and helped with set-up and/or clean-up for event.
  • Broke attendance and sales records each successive year for the event.

  • Participated in Deaf Coffee Chat social meetups to better understand deaf culture and improve ASL skills.

  • Attended the 3rd International Symposium on Music & Cochlear Implant Research virtual conference held in Cambridge, UK.
  • Reviewed papers on “Effect of Diametrically Bipolar Magnets and Screw Fixation on Pain” and “Adaptive Dynamic Compensation Systems.”

  • Led Public Art Walking Tours throughout downtown Cary, NC and manned Art Walk Information Booth at community festival in leadership role as a Teen Docent with the Cary Teen Council.

  • Volunteered at Triangle Robotics League middle school and high school tournament, assisting judges, teams, and leaders as needed to help insure smooth and efficient progress throughout the competition.
  • Individually recognized by event organizers as outstanding volunteer for stepping in to additionally fill roles of other volunteers who left before the end of the event.

  • Served church community as instrumentalist and vocalist in teen choir.

  • Assembled hunger relief food packages as a volunteer for World Food Day with the international hunger relief group, Rise Against Hunger.
  • Rise Against Hunger’s record-breaking initiative that day resulted in a total of 4,992 meals collectively distributed to countries around the world to help combat world hunger.

  • Volunteered as arena helper and score runner. Reset robotics competition arena between rounds, delivered scores from arena judges to scorekeeper, assisted college teams with setup.