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Greater Omaha Area

Researching interviewing and writing short articles based on places or people of note in the Omaha metro area. Author of featured cover story for August 2016, titled “Glenna Slater: Revitalizing Omaha's Native Language.”• Finalist: Great Plains Journalism Award, 2017

Greater Omaha Area

Tutoring students in one-on-one settings on writing/revision, and citation/style guidelines at the MCC Writing Center, leading to improved essays, resumes, C.Vs, statements of purpose, and coursework• Conduct workshops for faculty and students in Grammar, Composition, Rhetoric, and ESL Pedagogy

Greater Omaha Area

Adjunct ESL and Comp Instructor, Graduate Teaching Assistant, Writing Center Associate, Policy Manual Editor, EPPE GraderResponsibilities: Classroom lecturing and Online course facilitation in Comp I/II and ESL I, lesson and course planning, assignment and activity design, appraisal of student work/assignments, tutoring in writing skills and revision, writing program development, university policy development and manual revision. Teaching in traditional, hybrid, accelerated, and online classroom settings.Accomplishments: • Beginning 2017: Grading English Proficiency Placement Exams (EPPE), for First Year Writing Program• Nomination: Part Time Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award, 2016-17• Piloted first section in ESL Composition II, Spring 2016• Coordinated with students and faculty in one-on-one settings on writing/revision, and citation/style guidelines at the University’s Writing Center, leading to improved grant proposals, resumes, C.Vs, statements of purpose, and coursework• Recurring positions in multiple committees, including appointment as Part-Time Faculty English Department Representative, TESOL Community of Practice, First Year Writing Program, and From the Heartland textbook revision (2nd edition 2014, 3rd edition 2016-17), and Graduate Representative on Graduate Council (2013-14)• Trained incoming teaching assistants in strategies and theories for accommodating and instructing non-native English speakers in Comp I courses• Revised and reorganized Graduate Studies’ Master Policy and Planning Manual, updating verbiage and format for contemporary university needs and promoting use and accessibility

Qingdao, Shandong, China

Responsibilities: Curriculum development and design, lesson and course planning, ESL classroom instruction, student evaluation, and tutoring, cultural liaison for future Chinese exchange students.

• Performed all lectures, course planning, grading, and student interactions in multiple college-level Composition I and II classes• Tutored students in one-on-one settings on writing/revision, and citation/style guidelines at the University’s Writing Center• Advised multiple committees and councils for university and curriculum development, including Graduate Council Policy/Planning, First Year Writing Program Committee, English as a Second Language Teacher’s Circle, First Year Writing Textbook Revision Committee, and English Graduate OrganizationCONFERENCESConflicting Masculinities: Identity, Gender, and Appropriation in Alexie’s"The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian"• Presented at No Limits! Women and Gender Studies Conference, University of Nebraska – Kearney NE – March 2014Shut the &%$! Up, Donny: Silencing Talk, Gender, and Sexuality in The Big Lebowski • Presented at Border(less) Identities, Kansas State University – Manhattan KS – March 2013• Presented at No Limits! Women and Gender Studies Conference, University of Nebraska – Lincoln NE – March 2013Discourses of Masculinity: The New Man, The New Lad, and Maxim Magazine• Graduate Research and Creative Activity Fair, University of Nebraska – Omaha NE – March 2012 The “Overwhelming Question” of Manhood: The Search for Masculine Identity in T.S Eliot• Literature and its Others, Kansas State University – Manhattan KS – April 2012Great Expectations, Capital, and Masculinity• Workshop Seminar “Literature and Commodity Culture” at Literature and its Others, Kansas State University – Manhattan KS – April 2012 Language and Masculine Gender Roles in Maxim Magazine• No Limits! Women and Gender Studies Conference,University of Nebraska – Omaha NE – March 2012

Customer service, troubleshooting assistance, client development, application and miscellaneous account paperwork processing, establishing rapport, team development.• Fielded communications from life insurance members on matters of policy inquiries, status of applications and paperwork, details on available products and investment instruments, and website and account troubleshooting• Processed client paperwork updating account information such as contact information and beneficiaries, resulting in up-to-date and efficient business records of policy holder data• Established rapport with dozens of clients daily in service of the company’s public image, leading to improved business revenues and reputation among consumers

Customer service, service to sales, troubleshooting assistance, client development, establishing rapport, team development.• Conducted via telephone brokerage transactions for clients in all 50 states, acting in the capacity of a Series 7 and Series 63 licensed Registered Representative• Responsible via services to sales for multiple account conversions from competing firms, netting millions of dollars in new account assets for the company• Facilitated via telephone assisting and educating clients obtaining their investment goals• Established rapport with dozens of clients daily in service of the company’s public image, leading to improved business revenues and reputation among consumers

Master Of Arts (M.A.), English Language And Literature/Letters

Activities and Societies: UNO Graduate Council • Subcommittee for Policy and Planning Revision English Department First Year Writing.

Bachelor'S Degree, English Language And Literature, General

Activities and Societies: Editor – LAURUS Magazine • Undergraduate Magazine which published student creative writing and essays annually..