WLP is devoted to understanding the world and its natural environment, societies and cultures through the practices of listening and field recording. www.worldlisteningproject.org• Help to facilitate World Listening Day and other WLP programming• Work with WLP personnel (Director, Board of Directors, Interns) to strategically plan for WLP's ongoing development

• Articles published in Teachers & Writers Magazine, Teaching Artist Journal, and The English Record, other publications;• Poems published in Chase Park, After Hours, Versal, Drunken Boat, 580 Split, Kyoto Journal, Horse Less Review, Apparatus Magazine, and other print publications and online journals• CD and concert reviews published in the Jazz Institute of Chicago's JazzGram and at afropop.org• Book and magazine reviews published in Fence• Grant recipient for editing projects -- from the Community Arts Assistance program (City of Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs, 2008) and Center for Teaching Excellence (Columbia College Chicago, 2009)

* Taught ESOL to students in Adult Basic Education (ABE) Program at McFatter Technical College

• Taught English Composition and Literature courses in the Dept. of Writing and Communication and Dept. of Literature and Modern Languages

The Borderbend Arts Collective is a 501(c)(3) organization whose mission is to promote the arts by creating opportunities for artists to explore the aesthetic geography along the borders between art forms. Poetry, music, performance, and the visual arts are no longer discreet modes: hybrid forms and interarts collaborations proliferate in global arenas. www.borderbend.org

• Taught English Composition classes, including Environmental Studies- and Social Justice-themed courses• Served on Sustainability Projects in the Classroom Community of Practice (2017-2019)• Promoted to Level II Adjunct Instructor status, after having completed Reflective Educator professional development program (Harper’s Academy for Teaching Excellence, 2018)• Worked on a team to organize campus-wide Earth Week programming (2018)

• Taught English Composition and Literature, including Environmental Studies-themed and Service Learning-integrated classes• Taught professional development workshops for Oakton faculty (on multi-modal pedagogy and collaborative learning strategies)• Led a team to facilitate the Skyway Writers Competition and Festival (2013)• Served on Oakton's Diversity Council (2015-2019), Service Learning Committee (2016-2019), and Environmental Studies Concentration Committee (2016-2019)

• Taught Literature and Writing & Rhetoric courses in the English Department, as well as First-Year Seminar courses• Led workshop about multimodal pedagogy during First Year Writing orientation session (2007)• Awarded two grants from the Center for Teaching Excellence • Participated in a panel with the Bridge Program about "The Synesthetic Plan of Chicago," an art installation he co-curated which was commissioned by the City of Chicago (2009)• Organized “Listening to the Planet” and “"Film, Music, and Activism in New Orleans and Chicago" panel discussion, as part of Columbia College’s Critical Encounters program (2009)• Served as mentor for new college faculty members• Articles based on pedagogy he has developed while teaching in the English Department have been published in "The English Journal," "Teachers & Writers Magazine" and other publications• Given presentations about pedagogy and curriculum design at conferences in the U.S. and Europe (2002-2012)

• Led poetry writing activities with young people who are receiving medical treatment at Rush Children’s Hospital• Collaborated with supervisors and colleagues to develop curriculum; led professional development workshops during staff meetings• Co-presented, with Eric Elshtain, “Poets Are Doctors of Language” workshop, during the Society for the Arts in Healthcare Conference (2008)• Edited poetry collections by hospitalized kids