Education & engagement

My work sensibility is a critical-pedagogic sensibility: every encounter is an opportunity to broaden access to a topic, and in turn to augment and challenge my own intersectional understanding as an educator and culture worker.

My instructional and engagement planning approach is indebted to many exceptionally creative and empathetic educators, especially in dance, literature and creative writing, and documentary studies. I specialize in designing, documenting, and consulting on learning experiences that balance deep immersion and interactivity with reflective writing and discussion. Taking a cue from two pedagogically similar and local-to-me educational institutions — Black Mountain College and the Governor’s School of North Carolina — I strive to co-build, with students and fellow educators, safe learning spaces to enable and empower creative risk-taking.

Duke Performances and the Office of the Vice Provost for the Arts, Duke University

Community Engagement Coordinator: Planned 100+ unique artist-in-residence activities per academic year, including all curricular engagement programs with Durham Public Schools; co-facilitated and moderated public conversation series; trained and mentored Duke Performances interns in community-engaged arts work

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Graduate Teaching Assistant, Section Instructor, Graduate Research Consultant: Introduction to American Studies, Introduction to Southern Studies, Literary Approaches to American Studies, Radical Communities in 20th Century U.S. History

Digital Media and Digital Humanities Project Coordinator, Department of American Studies

National Humanities Center

Fellow, Teaching and Learning in the Humanities Program

Governor’s School of North Carolina

Publications Coordinator: Managed and trained student publications team, producing original weekly newspaper and audio documentary projects; lectured on ethics and documentary studies; served as at-large multimedia documentarian for the program

Area III (Self and Society) Instructor

Teaching Assistant/Counselor, Dance

Kenan Institute for Ethics, Duke University

Stephen & Janet Bear Postgraduate Fellow: Developed and implemented intensive local and international student programs emphasizing purposeful civic engagement, reflective writing, and fieldwork ethics

Hollins University / American Dance Festival Master of Fine Arts in Dance

Teaching Assistant: Corporeal Approaches (Dance History/Theory)