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Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

• Plan and execute the mission of the organization - advancing Black LGBTQ culture through multimedia art, emerging technologies, traditional African cosmologies, and innovative healing protocols.• Provide creative direction for, publish, and promote artistic works, exhibitions, and performances across a range of disciplines, including photography, dance, film, sculpture, public art, installation, animation, painting, literature, and multimedia.• Explore the potential of emerging technologies (e.g., spatial augmented reality and artificial intelligence) to generate new concepts and creations related to Black LGBTQ culture.• Create educational programs and workshops to increase community awareness and understanding of Black LGBTQ culture, history, and issues.• Organize retreats based in queer African spiritual traditions that promote healing and art and provide a safe and nurturing space for individuals to connect, create, and grow.• Partner with traditional healers and spiritual practitioners to provide alternative healing modalities that honor African cosmologies and address the mental, physical, and spiritual health needs of Black LGBTQ individuals in a culturally appropriate way.• Host reading groups for Black LGBTQ people to discuss traditional African cosmologies and their relevance for contemporary Black LGBTQ culture.• Curate events and exhibitions that showcase a diversity of cultural and artistic expression, featuring works from established and emerging artists, ritualists, and technologists that reflect a range of experiences and perspectives within the Black LGBTQ community.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

• Managed a $1.5M grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation that supports the program Humanities Engage, whose goal is to deepen the professional preparation of all doctoral students in the humanities; promote student-centered, collaborative, inclusive doctoral programs; support faculty efforts to reform doctoral training; and identify and celebrate the career success of all doctoral alumni• Provided one-on-one advising for approximately 400 students across 14 academic departments, helping them develop professional documents, organize their career exploration, create mentoring and networking plans, hone skills and competencies, and prepare for various job markets• Worked with approximately 30 nonprofits, small start-ups, and government agencies (including the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, and CO/LAB) to craft internship opportunities for doctoral students during the academic year and summer• Launched and manage curriculum development grants for doctoral students and graduate faculty to support the creation of courses with significant public and/or digital humanities scholarship components • Organized additional initiatives: an immersive dissertation fellowship, alumni engagement fund, a blog about the future of doctoral education, etc.• Supervised a Project Coordinator who provides administrative assistance for the grant

Berkeley, Ca

• Develop and administer student academic programs for the College of Natural Resources, which is composed of 5 academic departments (Agricultural and Resource Economics; Environmental Science, Policy, and Management; Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology; Plant and Microbial Biology; and Energy and Resources) that currently offer 11 undergraduate majors and 9 minors in diverse areas of natural and social sciences for approximately 2,200 students• Direct personnel activities for a staff of 13, including recruitment, hiring, training, and employee relations• Assess, implement, and manage programmatic and administrative oversight of the undergraduate advising and enrichment programs in the College based upon a wide-ranging understanding of student development, academic advising theory, and best practices• Provide high-level counsel to the College’s deans, department chairs, vice chairs, and faculty undergraduate major committees on program changes impacting students, articulation agreements with other colleges/universities, problems in course offerings, international student outreach, equity and inclusion issues, revenue generation, and other internal/external matters• Implement operational procedures for and guide compliance with all academic policies as set forth by the campus, Academic Senate, CNR Courses and Curricula Committee, and departmental faculty committees, and evaluate the impact of policy changes

Berkeley, Ca

• Led a staff of 8 in providing student services infrastructure for approximately 500 students in 15 different graduate degree programs• Administrative manager for 6 programs – the Health Policy PhD, Health Policy & Management 11-month and 2-year MPH, MPH-MBA, MPH-MJ, and MPH-MPP • Interim administrative manager for five programs – the Doctor of Public Health (DrPH), Interdisciplinary MPH, Biostatistics MA, Biostatistics PhD, and BA• Lead author for the Academic Program Review, a 400-page self-study document that provided an overview of all SPH programs, policies, and initiatives • Served as a liaison between Graduate Division, SPH senior administration, faculty, and students to ensure that policies and procedures were interpreted and implemented appropriately• Managed the Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality T32 training grant ($2,625,000) and Health Policy block grant ($106,800)

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

• Instructor of the following courses: Ancient Mysticism, Modern Science, and African American Literature; Initiation and Mythic Journeys from Antiquity to the Present; Ancient Egypt and the British Literary Imagination; Poetry and Transdisciplinary Knowledge; African American Literature and the Construction of Global Knowledge; Introduction to Global Romanticisms• Participated in a range of service events, such as organizing professional development workshops for graduate students, sponsoring campus visits for underrepresented students, and serving on campus-wide committees • Presented research on figures such as Zora N. Hurston, Walt Whitman, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Ishmael Reed, William Blake, and Erasmus Darwin at conferences in Neuchatel, Switzerland; in Montreal, Canada; and around the US• Organized "Race and Global Institutions: A Symposium in Africana Studies" (February 17, 2012) on campus

South Bend, Indiana

• Organized the symposium "Reconstructing the Image of Michael Jackson: Explorations of Body, Spirit, and Society" (March 25, 2010) on campus

San Marcos, Tx

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, English

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Social Studies; African And Afro-American Studies