I joined the Mandela Law & Public Service Academy in 2015 to teach "Social Justice & Advocacy," the required course for academy seniors in which they research a social inequity, write a 10-12 page paper, craft a solution and present their findings to a panel of community judges. I serve on the Oakland Unified School District's graduate capstone panel to improve the rigor of senior projects across the district to make sure our students graduate community, college and career ready.My students won five of the six Community Ready awards that our high school received for graduate capstone projects in the Oakland Unified School District. They were five of the 29 seniors awarded these prestigious awards by Oakland Unified and Educating for Democracy in the Digital Age. All five of my students presented their work at a showcase of senior projects on May 19, 2016. Two were among the top three scholarship finalists and one of them won that scholarship.

I currently teach the graduate capstone (senior research project) class for the Mandela Law & Public Service Academy. In addition, I teach English Language Development 4 and English Language Arts 3 for the Newcomer Educational Support Team. In the past, I have advised the Green & Gold, Fremont High School's student newspaper, and I have coached the debate team. Courses I've taught include Newspaper Production, Journalism, English Language Arts 1, Media Studies, Magazine Production, Public Speaking and all levels of advisory.

While on a sabbatical from my Fremont High School job, I became the first paid employee of this small non-profit organization that aims to improve voter participation amongst underserved communities in Cuyahoga County. My main duties involved tracking all voter registration data and providing preliminary data analysis for our research director. I also helped to organize voter registration events and assisted volunteers who fanned out to food banks, employment offices, public transit stations, Cleveland Metropolitan School District high schools and other events/locations that typically attracted lower-income and/or minority residents.

I ran the Media Academy, a California Partnership Academy, within Fremont High School. In addition to overseeing the budget and writing state reports, I also led our academy's cross-curricular planning and projects.

Ran all aspects of 10,000-circulation newspaper for, by and about teens living in Oakland, California.

I taught English Language Arts, beginning journalism and newspaper publication.

I was the lead K-12 education reporter for the 200,000-circulation paper.

Covered three municipalities and school districts in Lower Bucks County

My responsibilities included planning and executing English language lessons with Japanese teachers of English and elementary school teachers, teaching English language lessons to adults, advising city's international relations committee.