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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Executive Assistant to the Williams Director of the Penn Museum.

Swamphouse Press is a small, independent zine, chapbook, and art press that publishes work focusing on the intersection of the internet and nerd cultures. • Produce zine and chapbook content and solicit submissions to ensure continuous production. • Manage online content and outreach through various social media outlets to spread calls for submission and boost site views. • Work with a designer to ensure quality across hand-produced and digitally produced works. • Research and attend events for zine and small press enthusiasts. See recent works at swamphousepress.neocities.org

Created a draft update of the emergency preparedness plan for the Watkins Museum of History based on industry best practices and comparable institutions' emergency plans.

Re-housing the glass-plate negative collection of the George Cornish Studios (Arkansas City) and Hannah Scott Studios (Independence).

Graduate Research Assistant, Co-Coordinator of the Black Book Interactive Project at the History of Black Writing (in partnership with HathiTrust Research Center)

Repair of general collections materials and preventive conservation of rare books.

ENGL 101

Eleanor Mann School of Nursing (EMSON) transforms lives through nursing education and inspire leadership in nursing practice and academics to improve the health and well-being of society.- Served as primary purchaser and travel arranger for EMSON faculty and staff.- Organized curriculum and faculty information for CCNE accreditation process and annual internal review. - Ensured security of the EMSON building through remote guard systems.- Assisted with enrollment management for BSN candidates.- Directed callers to appropriate departments and faculty. - Assisted with course re-scheduling within EMSON building. - Special projects as assigned.

Greater Denver Area

Provided a wide range of administrative and programmatic support for the National Mental Health Innovation Center’s leadership directors as well as supporting the center’s program activities in order to enhance the center’s efficiency, professionalism, responsiveness to stakeholders and partners, and reach.- Managed the schedules and travel, including international travel, for members of the Center’s executive leadership team. Coordinated travel and expense reimbursement for the center’s directors and as needed for staff.- Supported the center’s video/teleconferencing activities.- Coordinated and scheduled technology demonstrations for internal and external stakeholders including board members, community mental health practices, private individuals, and nonprofit organizations.- Took minutes and assisted with meeting facilitation.- Provided support for quarterly Board of Directors’ meetings, including scheduling and distribution of relevant materials to all board members, invited guests, and staff.- Procured office supplies and equipment.- Coordinated administrative activities for new employees (assisting with scheduling orientation, securing badges etc.)- Coordinated logistics for the center’s community and university events, including events with high visibility (TEDX, VR Voice, documentary screenings, etc.)- Assisted with formal business communication, including formatting and writing documents, developing and refining presentations.

Academic Affairs in American University’s School of Communication is responsible for curriculum management, student academic planning, academic program oversight, and special initiatives related to all aforementioned areas.• Provide administrative support such as calendar management, logistics, and expenses, to the Senior Dean of Academic Affairs, the Associate Dean of Academic Administration, and the Assistant Deans of Undergraduate and Graduate Academic Services.• Manage communications to and from Academic Affairs with faculty, staff, facilities, students, parents and other visitors as needed.• Create curriculum proposals and revisions, track revisions and modifications to said proposals, and assist proper adherence to deadlines.• Provide catalog copy to the Division and Program Directors for updates. And ensure all catalog changes have been completed accurately.• Provide support for academic integrity code processes.• Plan and organize two commencement ceremonies (Fall and Spring) for up to 350 students and up to 500 attendees. Duties include selecting student speakers, ensuring faculty presence in ceremonies, and ordering gifts for graduates.

The American University Office of the Registrar is responsible for maintaining course schedules, student evaluations of teaching, transcript verification, the University Catalog, and student records. • Imaged and archived student correspondence and academic data in Colleague. • Maintained daily operations by supervising work-study student employees, ensuring delivery of up to 100 official student transcripts daily, organizing active and sensitive student files, assisting federal background investigators seeking transcript verification for potential employees, and other customer-driven administrative tasks as arise. • Researched and reported on transfer course equivalencies to ensure credit articulation for incoming transfer students. • Maintained active point-of-contact data set for easy communication between the Office of the Registrar and separate academic/administrative offices on main campus. • Maintained log of incoming student-evaluation-of-teaching packets for over 2,000 classes and prepare packets including scantrons and narrative comments for digitization.

American Literary Magazine (AmLit) is the American University’s student-run literary magazine and primary creative arts outlet on campus. AmLit is comprised of poetry, prose, photography, film and art submitted by the AU campus community and is published biannually at the end of the fall and spring semesters.• Oversee genre editors and staff (65) operations and manage an annual budget of $20,000 to publish two full-color 75+ page magazines per year.• Collaborate with multiple genre teams to review 500+ submissions of prose, poetry, photography, art, and film over a week-long period. • Review 30+ applicants for editorial board positions to select most qualified Genre Editors.• Proofread and edit selected prose and poetry pieces with a team of copywriters (2-5) and a content manager.• Facilitate distribution of the magazine (circulation of 1,000) across campus.• Serve as representative on the American University Student Media Board to ensure continuity of budget and operations.• Recruit new members both on and offline through Social Media and participation in bi-annual Events Fairs. To see past publications: http://www.amlitmag.com

Washington D.C. Metro Area

The American University School of Communications (SOC) is a school of selective, interdisciplinary major/minor programs with a total of 912 undergraduate students. The SOC Ambassador Program selects outstanding current undergraduates to support the recruitment effort for the school, serve as a mentor for new students, and provide community outreach programing to the other schools of American University.• Served on the Academic Committee to organize outreach programs for SOC Week, the School of Communication’s University-wide outreach effort. Sought out professors interested in giving presentations or facilitating games to verify suggested programming was in-line with outreach goals. • Organized a schedule of 18 events with 4 other committees that prevented logistical conflict.• Served as an ambassador to support SOC recruitment effort by meeting with prospective students at Prospective Student Events and giving tours.• Co-facilitated “Revealing MAPWorks” (a program that identifies behaviors in students that often contribute to success and provides resources) with other Ambassadors, providing a safe-space for first-semester freshmen to discuss academic and personal challenges and ensuring the students could locate SOC specific resources to assist their integration to college.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

The School of Communications (SOC) Undergraduate Advising Office instructs students on course requirements necessary for graduation, and acts as an intermediary between students, professors, and other university offices in times of academic distress. The office maintains records of undergraduate student activity from 2003-present for archival purposes in compliance with FERPA (Federal Education Rights and Privacy Act.) • Created student academic record folders for 250 or more incoming freshmen and transfer students in the fall semesters to ensure academic advisors had secure access to new student information. • Created spreadsheets of incoming freshmen and transfer students to record and track attendance at university-wide and SOC-specific summer orientation programs.• Digitized four years of graduated and inactive student records (2003-2007) as part of the larger digitization effort at the SOC to protect student data.• Maintained daily operations by assisting students in scheduling appointments with advisors and locating classes, organizing active student files, and providing technical assistance to professors and non-office staff. • Selected as Student Worker of the Year (2012) for “ambition to learn, strong work ethic, and customer-focus.”

School Of Public Affairs

Assisted managing the students of the Justice, Law, and Society (JLS) general education course “Western Legal Traditions.” Students were evaluated on four critical papers and the content of mandatory weekly online discussions. • Facilitated and gave credit for the online discussion of 63 students in the 2012-2013 school year. • Provided guidance on directions of papers and provided copy editing to students. • Lead weekly study sessions and hosted weekly office hours to ensure comprehension of reading materials for up to as many as 12 students at a time. All 30 students who attended sessions passed the course.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Supported the learning and development and performance management goals of the Office of Administration (OA) and Executive Office of the President (EOP). During my internship, the Division’s training mission expanded to include the development of the first EOP-wide training curriculum, required of all components and 3,200 employees, using eLearning. Because of the quality of my work, I was formally requested to extend my internship into a second semester.

Fort Collins, Colorado Area

Eartwise Pet Supplies is a Fort Collins Colorado locally owned and operated pet supply store specializing in natural and holistic pet foods and treats. The store also offers full-service grooming and sponsors adoption days with local veterinary offices and animal rescue agencies. • Used Quickbooks Point of Sale to manage purchases, input inventory, and to track customer rewards. • Took manual inventory every week to ensure freshness of food products. • Made appointments for dog owners requesting grooming services and made calls reminding those customers with upcoming appointments. • Routinely closed shop, handling up to $500 in cash while sorting deposit.

Master Of Fine Arts - Mfa, Creative Writing

MFA in Fiction

Graduate Certificate, Museology/Museum Studies

Certificate in Museum Studies with an emphasis on Collections Management.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Communication Media And Foreign Language

Activities and Societies: AmLit, The Griffin, AU PlayersLiberal arts education with emphasis in language acquisition, justice and law.