teaching

SELECT TEACHING EXPERIENCE

  • Boston University, Lecturer & Visiting Artist, 2023-present

    Food as Form (Spring 2024)
    Artist Statement workshops for Graphic Design, Sculpture, and Theater graduate students

  • Maryland Institute College of Art, Interactive Arts Department, Adjunct Professor
    Immersive Arts Lab (Spring 2022)
    Thesis Seminar for Graphic Design MFA (Fall 2016)

  • Textile Arts Center, Instructor, Brooklyn, NY
    Led workshops for artists in residence on: Writing the Artist Essay, Artist Statements, and Grant Writing

  • UCSD Muir College Writing Program, Instructor, 2018-2021
    Two-part foundational course in composition, emphasizing critical analysis and research skills centered around rotating contemporary topics.
    Social Media, Social Change (Fall & Winter 2018)
    Internet Privacy Rights (Spring & Fall 2019)
    Disability & Popular Culture (Winter, Spring, & Summer 2020; Winter, Spring, & Summer 2021)
    Paleocene. Holocene. Anthropocene? (Fall 2020)

  • Redbud Writing Project, Instructor, 2020
    Advanced Nonfiction (Summer 2020)

  • UCSD Literature Department, Teaching Assistant, 2017-2018
    Fiction (Fall 2017)
    Poetry     (Winter 2018)
    Nonfiction     (Spring 2018)

  • Odyssey Works Programs, Co-Founder, 2016-present
    A curriculum focused on interdisciplinary creative practices, collaboration skills, and how to use empathy as a tool for artmaking.
    Annually: Experience Design Certificate Program (10 months)
    Annually: Odyssey Works Master Class (one week)
    Annually: Experience Design Incubator (15 weeks)
    Quarterly: Experience Design Intensive (weekend)
    Monthly: Empathy & Experience Design Workshop (3 hrs)
    Monthly: Narrative & Meaning Workshop (3 hrs)

  • Flux Factory, Workshop Facilitator & Curriculum Developer, 2016
    Adult Sex Education (Winter 2015)

Other experience

  • Leyden Library, Volunteer Librarian, 2023-present

  • Pen City Writers, Reader & Literary Correspondent, 2020-2022
    Read and gave monthly feedback to men in a three-year, creative-writing certificate program while incarcerated at a maximum security prison in southern Texas. Read books together and exchange letters analyzing the texts themes and literary strategies.

  • UCSD New Writing Series, Coordinator, 2017-2018
    Designed posters, distributed promotional materials, coordinated logistics for events, recorded readings for library archives, and introduced speakers for UCSD’s monthly reading series with visiting writers.

  • NYU Gallatin Review, Poetry editor, Visual Arts editor, 2010-2012
    Coordinated calls for content, reviewed and kept track of hundreds of submissions, worked with writers to revise their works for publication, reviewed layouts and design, assisted with distribution for literary magazine.