Community & Advocacy
Beyond the lab and clinic
Cody is deeply committed to community and patient advocacy, bringing care and connection to where they are needed most.
Volunteered at a free medical clinic serving Honolulu’s unhoused population, delivering care to people who too often go without it.
Co-designed mindfulness-based programs for college students and psychiatric patients, supporting mental health through evidence-informed practice.
Served as a Behavioral Health Technician at a residential recovery facility, frontline experience that directly informs his research into substance use disorders.
Helped launch diversity and inclusion community events at CU Boulder, building spaces where more people feel they belong.
For Cody, community work and research are not separate tracks, they inform each other. Time at the bedside of patients in recovery, in free clinics, and alongside students shapes the questions he brings back to the lab, and keeps the human impact of brain health front and center.
It is the same conviction, expressed two ways: that rigorous science and genuine compassion belong together.
