Implementing journalistic writing in a secondary school language arts classroom with a focus on media literacy, project-based learning, and publishing.

• Founder of Overcup Press - a small press dedicated to publishing quality non-fiction titles on culturally relevant topics• Negotiate author contracts• Successfully secured and maintain national distribution with Independent Publishers Group• Collaborate with editors, designers, printers, marketers, book trade groups and reader communities

• English Teacher for grades 9-12 in a large comprehensive high school in the Portland, Oregon metro area for 24 years with consistently high-performance reviews• Served as Department Chair from 2019-2022• Developed curriculum for elective classes on Shakespeare and Journalism• Articulated the American Literature curriculum for Advanced College Credit• Publication advisor for the student newspaper• Increased the diversity of the novels offered to students through a book adoption process• Became a Fellow of the University of Oregon’s School of Journalism and Communication through work with their Journalistic Learning Initiative and Effective Communicators Curriculum (2022).

Co-Authored Classroom Publishing: A Practical Guide for Teachers (Second Edition)