Online Communications instructor at Upper Iowa University. Courses include: Introduction to Theatre, Public Speaking, Intercultural Communications, Interpersonal Communication, and Rhetoric and Public Culture.

Course areas include:HumanitiesSociology General EducationCommunications (including writing)The area chair position (2008-2010) included several areas of academic governance, faculty training and development, and course facilitation. Duties include but are not limited to overseeing content area faculty by way of scheduling instructors for courses, screening, training, mentoring, and coaching faculty and candidates, performing Academic Quality Assurance Reviews in the classroom and in the online learning system, creating and presenting ongoing development workshops for faculty; participating in campus governance via coordinating and chairing quarterly meetings for the College of Arts and Sciences, composing quarterly reports, and participating in the Academic Council and Campus Steering Committees; and fostering student success by overseeing and scheduling the Student Success Resource Center, tutoring, conducting student workshops, and New Student Orientation.

As a teaching artist I worked with local teachers and their students to bring aesthetic education to the classroom.

I taught children ages K-8 theatre skills such as collaboration, improvisation, character development, staging, voice, and movement.

This position involved all areas of staff management, inventory control, merchandising, and completing reports for inter-office communication. Duties included but were not limited to staff management, such as recruitment, training, development, and motivation of sales staff to ensure productivity and safety, scheduling, payroll, and conducting performance reviews; inventory control measures such as receiving and distributing merchandise, minimizing merchandise loss, completing and overseeing all paperwork, and monitoring cash registers; strategic planning for increased sales, including progressive and creative merchandising, holding regular sales meetings, ensuring customer satisfaction, communicating regularly with Home Office personnel, district, and regional managers, and attending and participating in district management meetings.