Directing the SmartARTS program housed at the TD Center for Arts Integration which includes (1) fundraising and grant-writing to secure 250,000+ annually, (2) managing a 250,000+ budget including managing and mentoring 25 artists working across 40 schools in partnership with 100 GCSD teachers, and (3) directing a week-long training institute each July with four education tracks at the Fine Arts Center in partnership with Greenville County Schools. Her role ranges from creating annual goals and areas of focus to data collection and payroll.During the pandemic, we pivoted our in-person training to zoom, managed our artists' unemployment between March 2020-August 2020, and positioned our program to work with the Greenville County Cares Act emergency childcare program for the children of essential workers between September 2020 and February 2021. In February 2021, we resumed our work both virtually and in-person in Greenville County Schools. In addition, we implemented cost-saving measures in our program to protect against possible downturns in giving post-pandemic. However, as we were able to continue to serve our constituents seamlessly, our fundraising met its targets, allowing us to serve more teachers going forward post-pandemic. In 2021, TD Bank and the TD Charitable Foundation committed 200,000 over five years to continue the TD Center for Arts Integration first established in 2016.In 2018, The TD Center for Arts Integration set the goal of having teaching artists who identify as Black, Indigenous or people of color to make up at least 30% of our teaching artist roster. As of 2022, over 40% of our teaching artist roster identify as Black, Indigenous or people of color. We are especially proud of the work we have done to mentor emerging minority artists in their first five years of work, including offering local professional development throughout the year, as well as access to regional and national arts-based professional development.

As a contract teaching artist and author, I worked with the Alliance Theater in Atlanta; the Metropolitan Arts Council in Greenville; The South Carolina Arts Commission, The Georgia Council for the Arts, and the SC Humanities Council, as well as touring libraries and book stores. As an artist in residence, I worked with 1st to 8th-grade students teaching public speaking, process drama, and creative writing based on state standards. 2016 Carl Sandburg NHS Writer-in-Residence in Flatrock for the National Park Service2016 SmartARTS Teaching Artist AwardOctober 2017 | Book Launch and book tour for my first full-length collection of poetry by Finishing Line Press, Lindy Lee: Songs on Mill Hill, which celebrates our area’s rich textile mill heritage.

Wits End Poetry provides a platform to celebrate diverse artists and their stories in the upstate & beyond through our new YouTube channel @carolinapoets, through mentorship of emerging voices, education outreach, and regular spoken word events that encourage dialogue. www.witsendpoetry.com | Our board is 80% POC with a staff that is 100% POC. In my role as Chair of the Board, I oversee fundraising including all grant writing. Funded by the South Carolina Arts Commission, SouthARTS, SC Humanities Council, Alternative Roots, the Metropolitan Arts Council, and many others.

Teaching language arts to a wonderful group of middle school kids at high-poverty schools. As part of my role as a teacher, I coordinated artist visits from local theaters and secured grants from the Metropolitan Arts Council. In 2015, I coordinated the author visit of Amy Christine Parker via a grant from South Arts. I am a Middle Grades Certified English Language Arts Teacher in the state of South Carolina with a Gifted and Talented certificate and technology proficiency.Chose to leave to dedicate more time to my creative writing, but continued to sub through December 2015.

Coordinating and creating RFPs for state bids. Technical writing, editing, and design of brochures, powerpoints, proposals, and web content.