This two-way communication form was developed as a way to communicate home with parents/guardians of exceptional learners. It is fun and colorful making it visually appealing for the students but also easy to understand for all levels of learners, including those at home. This form requires guardian interaction though a signature. 

I wrote this paper in the spring of 2021 in an Advanced Placement English Language course. This paper highlights the impacts of drugs and the importance of healthcare over criminal punishment, which tends to not assist the individual and their drug addictions. 

Instructor: Mrs. Beth Miller, East Pennsboro High School

I wrote this in the spring of 2022 for in an Advanced Placement English Literature class, and it provides in depth analysis of three novels and the musicals created from those novels: Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow, Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens, and The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux. It also devels into the science and pshycology of storytelling and music. 

Instructor: Mrs. Sarah Clouser, East Pennsboro High School

I wrote this paper in the fall of 2022. This paper highlights Shakespeare's dislike of stereotyped aspects of courtly love and uses his writing to make a mockery of those who are still emphasizing gendered stereotypes even in the period of the late sixteenth century and early seventeenth century. 

Instructor: Dr. Urina Pack, PennWest Clarion

I wrote this in the spring of 2023 for a research writing course, and it provides in depth research and analysis on the negatives of removing books from classrooms. This highlights the history of book banning and dives into examples of banned books and the important lessons that they teach. 

Instructor: Prof. Marti Mando, PennWest Edinboro

I wrote this in the fall of 2023 for a World Literature Survey course, and it provides in depth analysis of the similarities and differences in the ways the human experience is portrayed in the realistic stories of the Decameron and the Heptameron and the fantastical story of The Journey to the West. 

Instructor: Dr. Sarah Downey, PennWest California

This was an honors research contract project written in the spring of 2024. This research was done for a topics Wilderness in the American Imagination course. My family history leads back to the Blackfoot Nation of Northwestern Montana, so my professor, Dr. Ellen Foster, and I decided to both use this research to explore the history in relation to my own family history but also the people's connection with nature in their stories. 

Instructor: Dr. Ellen Foster, PennWest Clarion (Retired)

I wrote this in Fall 2024 during my Banned Books and Censorship course. This paper highlights the negative impacts of the censorship of authentic Native American histories and stories within schools.

Instructor: Dr. Melissa Downes, PennWest Clarion 

I did this research in Fall 2024 in a topics class called Shakespeare in Love. This paper explores the power dynamic in the relationship between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth along with looking at historical similarities of denying feminine power leading to downfalls. 

Instructor: Dr. Robert Hass, PennWest Edinboro

This project will be completed during the 2024-2025 academic year; this Honors Thesis paper is being overseen by Professor Amanda Frantz-Mamani.

I presented on this research at the 2025 PASSHE Frederick Douglas Institute Research and Creative Arts Conference in April 2025 on the campus of PennWest Clarion.

Upon being hired by the Pennsylvania Western University Edinboro Honors Program, I was tasked with developing a Student Honors Advisory Board (SHAB) to act as a governing student body for the Honors Program. I developed a constitution for the board, developed the executive board, chair, and representative positions that would comprise the voting members of the board. I created a guidebook for the board along with its minutes record and historical documents record. When developing the board, I did not wish to put myself in as president, so I developed the tie-breaking voting position of the Honors Office Staff Representative to serve as the liaison between SHAB and the honors office. 

As the Emcee and member of the Program team of the Hugh O'Brian Leadership (HOBY) Seminar of Central PA, prior to the 2023 seminar, I was tasked with developing the master script for the entire four-day seminar program. I worked for months to compose this forty-nine (49) page script from which the entire seminar was based. While there were adjustments that needed to be made along the way, most of the script remained intact as it was prior to the seminar. I went on to do the same for the 2024 HOBY Seminar of Central Pennsylvania.

While serving as the Northwestern Region President on the Student PSEA State Executive Board, I took on the challenge of planning and implementing the 2024 Outreach to Teach Project at Hamilton Elementary School in the School District of Lancaster (Lancaster, PA). This outreach event contained 10 sub projects that beautified the elementary schools' main upstairs hallway, the cafeteria, student bathrooms, the teachers' lounge, the PreK hallway, all three of the stairwells, and the school's library. I worked through every stage of the project from initial walkthrough seeing the beige and patchy walls to the final walkthrough full of color and joy. This project won the NEA GrammAE State Project of the Year for 2024.