experience
Project Manager-Huge Inc., Brooklyn, NY, April 2024-Present
Associate Project Manager—Huge Inc., Brooklyn, NY, January 2022-April 2024
Recruiting Specialist—CaptainU, Plano, TX, March 2021-January 2023
Percussion Faculty—Settlement Music School, Philadelphia, PA, 2020-Present
Program Coordinator—Connecticut Hurricanes Drum and Bugle Corps, Seymour, CT, 2020-Present
Freelance Contributor—FloMarching, Austin, TX, 2018-Present
Percussion Faculty—Carolina Crown Drum and Bugle Corps, Fort Mill, SC, 2017-Present
Creative Director—George Mason University Indoor Drumline, Fairfax, VA, 2017-Present
education
MA in English Literature, Concentration in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Wright State University, May 2018
M.A. Project, passed with distinction: “Nostalgia and the Politics of the Archive in the Post-Apocalypse”
BA in English, Minor in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, University of Connecticut, May 2013
B.A. Capstone Project: “Transcending Gender Binaries: Haruki Murakami’s Kafka on the Shore”
teaching experience
Wright State University
ENGL1140, Accelerated Learning Program (2018: 1 section)
ENGL1100 (2016-2017: 3 sections)
service
Wright State Graduate Committee, Student Officer, 2017
English Graduate Organization, President, Wright State University, 2016-2017
Representative for the English Search Committee, University of Connecticut, 2013
awards & honors
Huge Inc., Google Portfolio, Googie of the Year, 2023
Temple University, Division of Student Affairs, Inclusive Leadership Conference, Great Teamwork/Collaborative Project Award, 2021.
Wright State University, College of Liberal Arts Outstanding Student Award, 2017-2018
Wright State Teaching Assistantship, Wright State University, 2016-2018
Departmental Award for Excellence in English, University of Connecticut, 2013
presentations
“Battery Movement 101.” Marching Educators Virtual Summit, Hosted by Marching Health. Virtual, November 2020.
“How to Successfully Audition for a World Class Ensemble.” Next Wave Percussion Summit, Hosted by the Brooklyn Steppers. Virtual, June 2020.
“Between Organizational Logistics and Creative Design.” WGICon. New Orleans, LA, 2019.
“Summoning and Disseminating Black American History through the Capitalist Pop-Music Market: A Study of Beyonce’s Lemonade and Kanye’s Yeezus.” Pop Culture Association National Conference. Indianapolis, IN, 2018.
“Being Here and Not Being Here: Yvonne Vera’s Butterfly Burning and the Modernist Bodily Metaphor.” Miami University English Graduate Symposium. Miami, OH, 2017.