Service with publicly scalable impact has been my passion since my first job. 

Since 2024, I have been a pro bono Member of the Public Advisory Council at the Ministry of Labor and Poverty Reduction's Agency for Mahallabay [Micro-District Level] Working and Entrepreneurship Development, Uzbekistan's governmental agency established to reduce poverty and improve local economic outcomes.

I am on APSA's Women, Gender, and Politics Research Section's Small Grants Selection Committee for 2027. Please look out for April deadline and apply early in 2027! 

Since 2023, I have been a Board of Directors member of the Governance at the Central Eurasian Studies Society, a leading scholarly community for interdisciplinary social scientists and humanities' scholars studying the region, contributing to two committees. As a Conference Committee member, I helped schedule and thematically organize over 30 Political and Social Sciences panels at two Annual Conferences. In 2025, I designed and led the Society's first ever public fundraising campaign chairing the Finance Committee, raising over $15,000 (50% more than the original goal, with two funded book awards) towards supporting community development and research programs. My term ends in late November 2026. 

I am passionate about education and extending its benefits to the communities I serve and the vulnerable communities from where I come. In 2023-2024, I helped the New Uzbekistan University's Academic Board in building the country’s first Western-style, research-intensive university. I took active part in establishing the School of Humanities, Natural, and Social Sciences, hiring a top scholar to lead it as the Founding Dean, founding the country's first Summer School in Economics and Mathematics that brought top scholars to facilitate graduate program access, and starting Uzbekistan's first ever post-doctoral fellowship. Finally, I helped design and successfully complete the university's first independent research fundraising campaign (reaching over $20,000), hopefully laying the foundation for the university's aspirations towards more autonomy through its own endowment and tenure systems.

Finally, I have been a member of the Harvard Central Asian Archives Task Force since 2023, working to make unique, under-used, and barrier-ridden archives across Central Asia more accessible to interdisciplinary scholarly communities.

In 2021-2023, I was a non-resident Research Associate (pro-bono, independent) at the Ministry of Economy and Finance of the Republic of Uzbekistan (mostly on international ratings and evidence-based policymaking).