Education 2001 – Present
  • 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.

Post-Secondary and Community Teaching Experience

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.  
Gann Academy – Boston
  • 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. 
UW High School Institute
  • 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. 
Bell Curves, LLC Test Preparation – NYC
  • 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.
The Possibility Project – NYC
  • Teaching Artist – Playwriting coach, acting coach, mentor, Summer 2013 – Winter 2013.
Prairie Fire Children’s Theatre – Minnesota
  • Teaching Artist – Lead Actor, Co-Director, Costume and Prop management –
    “Tom Sawyer,” Summer 2006 (TOUR). 
Showing Up for Racial Justice – Boston
  • 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. 
University of Massachusetts – Boston 
  • 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. 
Laramie (Wyoming)
  • 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. 
New York City
  • 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.

​Selected Readings and Performances
  • 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.​