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Redmond, Washington, United States

Provides leadership for the Mission Fulfillment and Sustainability (MFS) Fellowship in support of institutional continuous improvement and assessment of student learning, student achievement, and institutional effectiveness through an equity lens. Supports institutional innovations by managing the substantive change process. Ensures alignment of NWCCU's.

Redmond, Washington, United States

Co-developed inaugural Student Success Academy held in fall 2019, including compilation of best practice knowledge base, design of pre-workshop data analysis assignment for participants, presentation at the opening workshop on collecting and meaningfully using disaggregated data to improve student success, and provision of ongoing support to workshop.

Everett, WA

Promoted the success of students at the college with an emphasis on social justice and equity, particularly racial equity, by leading collaborative work to set strategic planning goals and establish measurement structures for learning outcomes and student retention and completion. Supported planning and assessment using institutional research data and.

Everett, Washington, United States

Worked with the college president to restructure the organization to create an Institutional Effectiveness Division that included responsibility for college strategic planning and outcomes measurement, student success interventions and assessment, and accreditation reporting in addition to collaborative grant development with internal and external partners.

Everett, Washington, United States

Started Everett Community College's first Resource Development Office to strategically pursue external grant funding. Grew college grant awards from $1 million in the cumulative two years prior to an average of $6 million per year in the subsequent decade, with related staff growth from 3.5 FTE to 7 FTE. Supervised the Institutional Research Office (2-3.

Lexington, Kentucky And Metro Atlanta, Georgia

Performed a variety of writing and editorial services for individual clients, including grant writing and reporting for multiple non-profit organizations, copyediting for the University Press of Kentucky, writing and editing marketing materials and annual reports for high-tech businesses, editing theses and dissertations for University of Kentucky graduate.

Greater Atlanta Area

Fully managed grant application process for large non-profit organization including researching, writing, reporting, and tracking funding opportunities through Federal, State, and local governments, United Way, corporations, and foundations. Over $1.4 million raised in first nine months with agency, maintaining a 65% success rate. Assisted in developing.

Greater Atlanta Area

Courses taught: English (ENG 101), Composition & Rhetoric (ENG 191).

Lexington, Kentucky, United States

Fully managed grant application process for mid-sized non-profit organization including research, writing, reporting, and tracking funding opportunities through Federal, State, and local governments, United Way, corporations, and foundations. Over $1.5 million raised, including a Federal mentoring grant of approximately $600K paid over three years.

Lexington, Kentucky Area

Taught various English and Women's Studies courses, including First year Composition Sequence (ENG 101/102), Business Writing (ENG 203), Survey of American Literature II—Civil War to the Present (ENG 252), Intro to Women’s Writing (ENG 234); Feminist Spirituality (WS 200), (Re)Constructing American Motherhood (WS 200), Intro to Gender and Women’s Studies.

Lexington, Kentucky, United States

Raised start-up capital for development-stage, high-tech Kentucky companies by selling stock to Angel investors (over $3.5 million raised, with a minimum $25K purchase). Managed all communication between clients’ engineering/technical staff and current and potential investors, including preparation of corporation annual reports. Created and delivered.

Phd (Abd), English

Mfa, Creative Writing

Ba, English

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