Education 2001 – Present
Reconstruction.Us – Boston (Remote)
College and University Teaching Experience
University of Wyoming
Professional Development
College and University Awards and Honors
Conferences and Presentations
Editorial and Research Work
Community Organizing and Service
Boston
Additional Experience
Additional Training
Selected Poetry Publications and Playwriting Productions
Arts and Activism Awards and Honors
- Goddard College – Plainfield, VT. Low Residency M.Ed., Teaching Licensure and School Counseling Licensure. Expected May 2022.
- University of Massachusetts – Boston, MA. M.A., American Studies. Conferred May 2020.
- Thesis: “This Feels Like Groundhog Day: Stuckness and the Cultural Work of 21st Century Televisual Time-Loop Plots.” Chair: Dr. Aaron Lecklider. Winner of The Michael Lenz Award.
- University of Wyoming – Laramie, WY. M.F.A., English and Creative Writing. Queer Studies Minor. Conferred May 2018.
- Bradley University – Peoria, IL. B.A., Theatre Performance. Conferred May 2009.
- Normal Community West High School – Normal, IL. HS Diploma. Conferred May 2005.
Reconstruction.Us – Boston (Remote)
- Instructor – “Dropping the Seeds,” (Upcoming) November 2020 - Present. Kindergarten.
- Instructor – “Lit in Formation,” September 2020 - Present. Grades 6-8.
- Instructor – “Secure the Bag,” October 2020 - Present. Grades 9-12.
- Skills: Reading (Kindergarten level) and spelling, classroom management, mentorship, multimodal methods, online instruction, critical thinking, critical reading, social-emotional learning, and antiracist education.
- Guest Lecturer – “American Studies, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Race,” for Gann Academy’s 12th Grade Seminar on Black History, Spring 2019.
- Curriculum development and multimodal methods.
- Instructor/Course Creator – “The Craft of Changemaking: Expression, Imagination, Creativity in Poetry and Activism,” for University of Wyoming’s Summer High School Institute, June 2018.
- Skills: Classroom management, mentorship, curriculum development and implementation, and multimodal methods.
- Instructor – SAT and ACT Test: Verbal section. Reading Comprehension, Grammar, Composition & Rhetoric; NYC High School Regents Exam Preparation for Global History and U.S. History, English Comprehension and Writing, Winter 2014 – Summer 2016.
- Skills: Classroom management, mentorship, curriculum development and implementation, creation of study materials, and one on one tutoring.
- Grades 4-12.
- Teaching Artist – Playwriting coach, acting coach, mentor, Summer 2013 – Winter 2013.
- Teaching Artist – Lead Actor, Co-Director, Costume and Prop management –
“Tom Sawyer,” Summer 2006 (TOUR).
- Community Educator – Online (Zoom) Class, “Showing Up For Racial Justice: Prison Abolition Addition” Summer 2020.
- Community Educator – Weekly Online (Zoom) Events, “Action Hour!” Summer 2020.
College and University Teaching Experience
University of Wyoming
- Instructor – English 1010: Composition & Rhetoric.
- Four classes: Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Fall 2017, and Spring 2018.
- Guest Lecturer – “Race and Class in Wyoming,” for Introduction to Women’s Studies, Spring 2017.
- Guest Lecturer – "Contemporary Indigenous Poetry," for ANTH North American Indians, Spring 2019.
- Guest Lecturer – "Disability Activism in the 1980s," for AMST U.S. in the 80s, Spring 2019.
- Guest Lecturer – “Feminism in the 1980s,” for AMST U.S. in the 80s, Fall 2018.
- [Online] Teaching Assistant for Dr. Buonanno – “Renaissance to Modern Art,” Spring 2020.
- [Online] Teaching Assistant for Dr. Brown – “U.S. Documentary Photography,” Spring 2020.
- Teaching Assistant for Dr. Atwood – “War in American Culture,” Spring 2020.
- Teaching Assistant for Dr. Negrón – “Social History of Popular Music,” Fall 2019
- Teaching Assistant for Dr. Daniel Burge – “American Identities,” Fall 2019.
- Teaching Assistant for Dr. Cedric Woods – “North American Indians,” Spring 2019.
- Teaching Assistant for Dr. Carney Malley – “U.S. in the 80s,” Spring 2019.
- Teaching Assistant for Dr. Evan Barros – “U.S. in the 80s,” Fall 2018.
- Teaching Assistant for Dr. Aaron Lecklider – “The U.S. in the 1990s,” Fall 2018.
Professional Development
- ENGL 5010 – Prct Engl: Writing and Literature, University of Wyoming, Fall 2016.
- ENGL 5900 – Practicum: College Teaching: Pedagogy for Composition and Rhetoric, University of Wyoming, Fall 2016.
- Safe Zone LGBTQIA Inclusivity Faculty Training – University of Wyoming, Fall 2017.
- Academic Research 101 Training – University of Massachusetts (Boston), Fall 2018.
- Seminars on ACT Up, Disability Justice, and Transformative Justice – Catalyst Project, Online Class, Spring 2020.
College and University Awards and Honors
- Winner – The Michael Lenz Award for Non-traditional and Innovative Scholarship, Spring 2020. For MA Thesis: “This Feels Like Groundhog Day: Stuckness and the Cultural Work of 21st Century Televisual Time-Loop Plots.”
- Winner – Slater Award for Excellence in Teaching, Spring 2018.
- Supplemental Research Funding Grantee – Social Justice Research Center Grant for Thesis Project: “My Family Used to Be White: Mapping the Construction of Racial Whiteness and Identity on the Personal Level,” Summer 2017.
- Grantee – MFA Program Travel Grant for International Research for Thesis Project: “My Family Used to Be White[…],” Summer 2017.
Conferences and Presentations
- Presenter – “My Family Used to Be White: Mapping the Construction of Racial
Whiteness and Identity on the Personal Level,” for the Shepard Symposium on Social Justice, Laramie, WY, Spring 2018.
Editorial and Research Work
- Senior Co-Editor – Inside English:1010, at University of Wyoming, Spring 2017.
Inside English:1010 is an online publication for undergraduate English:1010 (Freshman Composition and Rhetoric) students. - Research Assistant – UMB, for Dr. Aaron Lecklider. June 2020 – Present.
- Archival Assistant – Non-affiliated, for Dr. Trevor Hoppe. June 2020 – Present.
Community Organizing and Service
Boston
- Community Organizer/Facilitator (Housing Team) – BIJAN: Boston Immigrant Justice Accompaniment Network, Summer 2018 – Present.
- Community Organizer/Facilitator – SURJ Prison Abolition Action Partnership, Fall 2019 – Present.
- Community Organizer/Facilitator – Juntos, ACLU of Wyoming, Wyoming Equality, Western States Center, Immigration Alliance of Casper for the #WyoSayNo Campaign (a campaign to stop the construction of an immigrant detention center), WY, Fall 2017 – Summer 2018.
- Community Organizer/Facilitator/Founding Member – Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) Wyoming, Fall 2016 – Summer 2018.
- Community Organizer/Facilitator/Founding Member – Laramie for Black Lives, Fall 2016 – Spring 2017.
- Community Organizer/Facilitator – Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) NYC, Winter 2015 – Summer 2016.
- Host/Event Organizer – Judson Church’s Poetry Nights, Fall 2013 – Summer 2016.
- Co-Artistic Director and Literary Manager – Occupy the Empty Space (An Occupy Wall Street Theatre Festival), Winter 2011 – Winter 2014.
Additional Experience
- Lead Communications Representative – The National Theatre for Children, Remote, September 2020 - Present.
- Volunteers Manager – Housing Works Bookstore and Cafe, NYC, 2013 - 2014.
- Special Events Assistant – The Doula Project, NYC, 2015.
Additional Training
- Kennedy Center Playwright Intensive, Washington D.C., Summer 2011.
- Internship at The Playwrights’ Center, Minneapolis, MN, Winter – Summer 2011.
- American Academy of Dramatic Arts Summer Conservatory Program, NYC, Summer 2008.
Selected Poetry Publications and Playwriting Productions
- “Calling” “In a Name” – Sleet Magazine.
- “Affirmation 207” – Visitant Lit.
- “Week/End” – Poetry Chapbook, Headmistress Press.
- “Fourth of July” – States of the Union.
- “Word Map 1 and 2” – The Whiteness Issue, The Racial Imaginary Institute.
- “Umpqua” – Heavy Feather Review.
- “The News” “Reach” – Souvenir Lit Journal.
- Come Back Up, Sanguine Theatre Company, The Gym at Judson, NYC.
- Beat Parable, GMHC AIDS Benefit, Baruch Performing Arts Center, NYC,
- Bees and Lions, Sanguine Theatre Company, W.O.W Cafe Theatre, NYC.
- Maria – Drunk Shakespeare: Twelfth Night, Relative Theatrics, Virtual.
- Stand-Up Comedian – Farris and Friends, Virtual.
- Singer and Actor – "What's Wrong With Me?" by Kate Eberstadt, Burrowing Artists, Virtual.
- Stand-Up Comedian – Farris and Friends, Improv Boston, MA.
- Stand-Up Comedian – The Stand-Up Jam, Improv Boston, MA.
- Stand-Up Comedian – Class Comedy Showcase, Improv Boston, MA.
- Featured Poet – MFA Graduate Reading, Night Heron Cafe, WY.
- Featured Poet – Power to the People Party, Alice Hardie Stevens Center, WY.
- Featured Poet – Solo Show: "Epic Tragic Crashing Chronic," La MaMa Experimental Theater, NYC.
- Featured Poet/Event Organizer – Poetry Electric: “Poetry on Consent,” La MaMa Experimental Theater, NYC.
- Featured Poet/Event Organizer – Poetry Electric: “Poetry on Privilege,” La MaMa Experimental Theater, NYC.
- Featured Poet – Poetic Theatre’s “Breaking Our Silence: Queer Voices,” The Wild Project, NYC.
- Harper – Angels in America: Millennium Approaches, Bradley University, IL.
- Lady Rosaline – Love's Labour's Lost, Bradley University, IL.
- Horatio – Hamlet, Bradley University, IL.
- Queen Clytemnestra –The Oresteia, Bradley University, IL.
- Maud/Lin – Cloud Nine, Bradley University, IL.
- Princess Winifred – Once Upon a Mattress, Normal Community West High School, IL.
Arts and Activism Awards and Honors
- Nominee (for Week/End) – The Pushcart Prize, Winter 2020.
- Semi-Finalist – Charlotte Mews Chapbook Contest, Fall 2018.
- Finalist – Yemassee Chapbook Prize, Fall 2018.
- Grantee – Travel and Board Grant for SURJ Community Organizer Training at The Highlander Center, Spring 2017.
- Writer-In-Residence – TaktKunstprojektraum (Berlin), Fall 2014.
- Winner (for Bees and Lions) – Sanguine Theatre’s Project Playwright, Winter 2012.
- Artist-in-Residence – Magic Time Residency, Judson Memorial Church (NYC), Fall 2012.
- Honorable Mention – The Academy of American Poets’ Prize, 2009.
- Second Place – The Sipple Poetry Award, 2007.