• Provided research related to drafting legislation, summarized legislation to be heard in committees on which the legislator sat, and developed talking-point summaries of legislation being introduced by the legislator• Attended committee hearings in order to summarize the discussion of legislation for the legislator• Contacted and organized witnesses who attended committee hearings to speak on pending legislation• Organized town hall meeting events • Responded to inquiries from constituents and other elected officials, wrote constituent responses, composed and distributed email newsletters• Supervised and directed the work of legislative interns • Performed assorted office-related tasks, including answering phones, data entry, managing and organizing aide and legislator email accounts, and maintaining legislator’s calendar

• Designed instruction and course content that emphasized the complexity of, and interrelationships between, issues of gender, race, religion, sexuality, and contemporary society and culture• Developed course syllabi, selected relevant course readings, created assignments and in-class activities, and developed student assessments for classes ranging in size from 40 to 100 students• Supervised the work of graduate student teaching assistants• Developed the Disney’s Women and Girls course as a new course that applied concepts of media literacy in combination with a feminist analysis of media to critically examine a selection of Disney’s animated children’s filmsWomen and Gender Studies Courses: Disney’s Women and Girls; Gender, Sexuality, and Popular Culture; Femininities, Masculinities, AlternativesReligious Studies Courses: Women and Religion; Religions in the United States; Religion and Contemporary U.S. Society; Religious Dimension in Human Experience

Continuing Education Courses: Religions in the United States; Disney’s Women and Girls

• Worked in the area of meteorological forecasting test and evaluation, including responsibility for developing and implementing the 1987 real-time convective-season exercise plan• Involved in test and evaluation activities associated with the National Weather Service’s modernization program’s risk-reduction efforts and in a field test of artificial-intelligence-based forecasting programs• Provided post-exercise data analysis, evaluation, and presentations • Performed synoptic-scale meteorological analysis of turbulence case studies• Produced written reports on research results and presented results at conferences • Wrote Fortran-based programs for data analysis and wrote HTML code and Perl scripts for website development and maintenance