UConn ECE "Rookie of the Year" Award for First-Year Instructors 2024

Mohegan Tribe Challenge Grant Recipient 2024, 2019

Fund for Teachers Fellow 2024 (Norway), 2018(South Dakota, Montana, Washington) http://www.fundforteachers.org/

Education:

• UConn '05 - Master of Arts in Education, concentration in Secondary English Education

• UConn '04 - Bachelor of Arts in English and Journalism

Hobbies:

Community theater, reading, gardening, baking pie

A Select Few of My Favorite Books, as well as some writers and poets:

• On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

• This Impossible Brightness by Jessica Bryant Klagmann

• All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

• Jhumpa Lahiri

• Tennessee Williams

• David Sedaris

• Maya Angelou

• Barbara Kingsolver

• Kaveh Akbar

• Tommy Orange

Favorite Movies:

"Moulin Rouge"

"Mary Poppins"

"Wicked"