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