I am an academic skills and communications specialist who is passionate about helping institutions and individuals amplify their voices.
I have held roles in small, large, private, and public organizations, including not-for-profits, and I wish to use this experience to assist organizations that contribute to the economic, social, and civic well-being of the communities they serve. My CV and resume include more detail on positions I've held, but some of the roles I've had include
multimedia content development manager and instructional designer
writing center director
publications project manager
communications coordinator
writing instructor and tutor
Please review materials I've produced in these roles below.
I have published both short and long-form projects. A selection follows:
(2021). Space and place. In S. Hedge & C. Cox (Eds.), Digitally Mediated Composing and You: A Beginner’s Guide to Understanding Rhetoric and Writing in an Interconnected World. Kendall Hunt.
(2021, March 23). Developing a Rhetoric Empathy in the Post-Pandemic Era: An Advocacy Project. Digital Rhetoric Collaborative. Gayle Morris Sweetland Center for Writing, University of Michigan.
(2020, August 4). Collaborative projects in isolating times [Blog post]. Connecting Writing Centers Across Borders—A Blog of WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship.
(2018). Enabling a learning-filled approach to the writing consultation: a heuristic website for the development of consultant education programs [Master’s thesis]. University of Illinois at Springfield.
(2016). The liberating potential of continuously variable circuitry: Understanding the trend of postmodern analogs in electronic dance music culture. In M. Bernico and M. Kölke (ed.), Ontic Flows: From Digital Humanities to Posthumanities. New York, NY, and Dresden: Atropos Press.
As a higher education specialist, I have contributed to the institutional missions of colleges and universities throughout Illinois and the mid-south region. A brief selection of materials I've created follow:
Video: "Transition to college: Digital writing" is a brief introduction to writing in college for high school students.
Handout: Revising resumes and cover letters
Handout: Writing effective thesis statements
"Composing for and with digital platforms": a 16-week course plan for an introductory composition course focusing on digital writing and multimodal production
Sample infographic reporting usage statistics for system-wide writing center
These items were used to promote handbooks and courses by the Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education, where I served as Communications Coordinator and Publications Project Manager.