Experience

Research Experience

Graduate Student Affiliate, UNC Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life, 2021 - 2023

Participate in CITAP events, including biweekly research workshops and professional development talks and collaborate with other researchers, broadly focused on the intersection of technology and media, platforms, misinformation, political institutions, identity, race, culture, and journalism.

Qualitative Data Analyst, On Contract, 2019 - 2020

Performed secondary coding analysis on interview data about female criminal offending in China after the one-child policy.

Interviewer, Survey Research Center, 2019

Conducted survey interviews over the phone and enter survey data for clients including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Kentucky Department of Vocational Rehabilitation.

Research Assistant, Center for Research on Violence Against Women, 2018

Conducted qualitative analysis on data regarding undergraduate students’ ideas of appropriate punishment for hypothetical sexual assault scenarios.

Research Fellow, Women's Fund of Greater Chattanooga, 2016

Conducted research on the costs and benefits of legalizing over-the-counter hormonal birth control pills and promoted the organization’s legislative agenda in the Tennessee state Legislature, which resulted in the passage of a bill legalizing the prescription of birth control pills by pharmacists.

Research Fellow, Urban League of Greater Chattanooga, 2015

Conducted research on the existence and role of organizations in the greater Chattanooga area helping Black youth and young adults succeed in school and in the workplace as part of the city’s commitment to President Obama’s My Brother’s Keeper initiative.

Research Assistant, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, 2013 - 2014

Conducted research on international workplace pregnancy discrimination and on the use of fashion in Kate Chopin’s short fiction.

Teaching Experience

Graduate Instructor, University of Kentucky, 2020 - present

SOC 235 Inequalities in Society. SOC 335 Sociology of Gender. SOC 339 Introduction to Criminology. SOC 350 Crime & Disasters. Independently develop and teach in-person and online, lower-level and upper-level courses of 18 to 75 students from a variety of majors.

Teaching Assistant, University of Kentucky, 2017 - 2019

SOC 101 Introduction to Sociology: Mass Media and Popular Culture. SOC 304 Classical Sociological Theory. SOC 350 Social Movements. SOC 350 Religious Ecologies. Assisted professors in both introductory and upper-level courses ranging from 30 to 120 students.

Guest Lecturer, University of Kentucky, 2019

Presented a guest lecture on the Communist Manifesto in a Classical Sociological Theory course of 30 students.

Guest Lecturer, University of Kentucky, 2019

Presented a guest lecture on gender, sex, and sexualities in an Introduction to Sociology course of 120 students.

Editing Experience

Social Media Editor, SAGE Publications, 2018 - present

Manage the interdisciplinary journal on Violence Against Women’s Twitter and Facebook accounts @VAWJournal. Increased Twitter followers by 430%, and increased Facebook likes by 30% in three years.

Assistant Editor, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, 2014

Assistant edited the book Pregnancy Discrimination and the American Worker by Michelle D. Deardorff and James G. Dahl, published in 2015 by Palgrave Macmillan.

Copy Editor, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, 2013 - 2014

Copy edited the journals Midwestern Miscellany and MidAmerica.