PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Georgetown University’s THE FEED

Editor 01/2022-Present

  • Selects stories for weekly publication on higher education access and affordability
  • Prepares web and email content for FEED subscribers

WRITERS WRITE

Consultant 04/2018-Present

  • Works with writers to help them succeed in communicating conceptually complicated ideas for professional and graduate work
  • Editing and managing writers’ production of documents and findings for clarity and easy comprehension

POLITICS AND PROSE

Instructor  07/2020 – Present  

  • Develops, writes, and produces online educational materials for new seminar-style classes on intersections of race, politics, and literature
  • Introduces historical and literary subjects and perspective-changing course materials to adults in innovative ways

ALEXANDRIA CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS (ACPS)

Teacher  08/2018 – 05/2020

  • Inspired students in Talented and Gifted courses with advanced reading and humanities materials
  • Introduced difficult, complex, and untold African American and American Indian history that developed students’ desire to increase their own cultural competencies

THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY

Graduate Writing Consultant  05/2015 – 05/2018

  • Built an expanding network of relationships across disciplines to help create a community of writers
  • Guided writers in developing their ideas and improving their revision and self-editing skills.

Graduate  Instructor  08/2010 – 05/2015

  • Worked on curriculum development for Introduction to American literature courses covering historically diverse texts
  • Taught and evaluated student writing and composition as a graduate mentor and lecturer

EDUCATION

THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY

PhD, English: 19th century British, American and Caribbean Literatures, August 2018

  • Recipient of The George Washington Summer Dissertation Fellowship (June 2015 – August 2015)
  • Selected for The George Washington University Graduate Teaching Assistantship (August 2010 – May 2015)

GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY

MA, English: 19th Century British Literature and Nationalism, October 2009

  • Recipient of Georgetown University’s Community Scholars Associateship (July 2007 – May 2009)

BA, English, Classical Languages, May 2007