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 CV

Experience and Research

Residence Director

  • Intentionally lead student interactions with Restorative Practices and Social Discipline Window to foster community development, address concerns, and respond to crisis; including interactions with students who demonstrate inappropriate behavior.

  • Oversee 1000 students in living-learning communities: Outdoor Experiences, Cultural Crossroad, Liberal Arts Scholars Program, and Honors College.

  • Provide individual support to students in their social, leadership, and identity development and provide advocacy and support for individuals and student groups including advising and referral, as appropriate, on campus diversity issues and bias incidents, centering departmental mission of restorative practices

  • Conduct leadership development in student one-to-one supervisory meetings and team meetings with Resident Advisors on an ongoing basis to enable personal growth and development grounded in student development theories.

  • Collaborate with Living Community Teams and Administrative Staff to discuss events, collaboratively co-create solutions to student engagement in programing, and issues such as vandalism and community impact

  • Serve as a case manager for students experiencing a personal crisis, mental health concerns, and roommate conflicts.

BIPOC/Anti-Racism Facilitator

  • Build a sustainable coalition of higher education student affair practitioners and scholars within the graduate program, who are committed to anti-racism work through co-leading our interrogating whiteness spaces.

  • Collaboratively develop a strategic plan to use for the betterment of the graduate program.

  • Develop facilitation guides for BIPOC affinity space, centering critical consciousness of racial issues impacting higher education, joy, and resilience.

  • Prioritize areas within the higher education student affairs program that center commitments to anti-racism.

  • Create a digital BIPOC resource guide for potential prospective graduate students to reflect graduate program commitment to anti-racism.

Special Initiatives Assistant to the Assistant Dean of Students

  • Participated in weekly Concerning and/or Risking Event (CARE) Team meetings to address outreach approaches/outcomes for students in crisis.

  • Supported the Assistant Dean of Students in creating a 2-year strategic plan for the CARE Team.

  • Created assessment tools to demonstrating impact of student outreach by using Qualtrics surveys to guide the future of the CARE Team. Developed long-term assessment tools that evaluate the effectiveness of the pilot Care Coordinator program.

  • Optimize mechanisms in Maxient software to measure speed of connection in linking both at high and low risk students to short-term/long-term resources.

  • Drafted marketing strategies that articulate the mission and work of the CARE team for external and internal stakeholders.

Collaborate with the CARE team to expand campus-wide understanding of structures and support that will help all students to persist and thrive as members of The University of Vermont

 Advisor to Fraternity and Sorority Life

  • Provided advising for 7 councils and acted as a resource for all chapters within the fraternity and sorority community. Served as the initial point of contact to national and international fraternity and sorority organizations, their alumni, and their governing organizations.

  • Assisted in the coordination of all fraternity and sorority community-based conduct review processes and judicial procedures in collaboration with the Assistant Director of fraternity and sorority life.

  • Advised identity-based student councils Queer and Trans FSL and Sisters of Color; develop strong advisory relationships with advisees. Applying student and leadership development theories to inform advisement practices. Informed students of university policies and procedures, train students in event planning and management, and assist with critical decision-making.

  • Provided support for organizations with budgets, contracts, and evening/ weekend event coverage and advisement when needed.

  • Facilitated inter-organization communication and collaboration.

  • Initiated and planned community building programs and meetings for constituencies represented in assigned advisement.

  • Managed external and internal policies including National Panhellenic Council (NPC), restorative practices, and standards.

  • Incorporated and coached students on social justice and inclusion-focused lens by leading roundtable discussions on gender and leadership, as well as academics with Panhellenic women.

  • Compiled and created diversity, equity, and inclusion training guide for Panhellenic Council and Interfraternity Council.

  • Contributed to the development, writing, facilitation, and assessment of original diversity education curricula for bi-annual social justice retreat' by-request workshops and trainings. Supported the development and implementation of related train-the-trainer programs.

Gender and Sexuality Program Coordinator

  • Assisted the Director of the Office of Gender and Sexuality to establish and develop university-wide Safe Zone program (LGBTQA+ allyship training).

  • Advanced and sustained a culture of belonging for all students, faculty, and staff with the division of student development, diversity provost, and academic provost, ensuring transparency and enhancing cohesive communication across areas of the college doing work toward diversity, equity, accessibility, inclusion, and justice.

  • Served as a liaison between the Center and other university departments, including other Cultural offices, Alumni Relations, Undergraduate Admission, Academic units, Student Affairs, Police services, and Residential Life on policies and practices impacting LGBTQ+ students.

  • Developed and maintain institutional and community collaborations and partnerships that integrate social justice into academic and inclusive excellence in support of students, staff, faculty, and community partners from marginalized backgrounds.

  • Sponsored implementation of university-wide policy for student preferred names and pronouns in collaboration with technology services, student housing, and registrar office.

  • Utilizing frameworks of social justice, disability justice, and transformative justice, oversee the development and advancement of initiatives, training, and programs in support of Denison mission.

  • Central to institutional efforts to support individuals who have been impacted by identity-based harm, systemic oppression, and power-based interpersonal violence.

  • Provided subject-matter expertise in areas of social justice, anti-oppression, harm-reduction, and liberatory practices in support of pedagogy, programs, training, and workshops for students, staff, and faculty.

  • Designed and implemented methods to increase engagement and active participation of faculty and staff in DEI initiatives, including but not exclusive of creating tools, guidelines, and solutions to help the organization maintain a diverse, welcoming and connected environment; and develop
    and implement DEI training of faculty, staff, and trainees.

  • Originated LGBTQ+ inclusive best practices workshops to various campus partners including campus nurses, therapist, doctors, supporting operating staff, and facility services.

  • Formed methods and metrics for feedback, assessment, and evaluation of department progress toward goals of LGBTQ+ equity using evidenced-based best practices and research.

Community Coordinator

  • Supervisor to 11 student Community Advisors using departmental and divisional Public Narrative Model.

  • Collaborated with professional and student staff to develop welcoming and engaging residential communities, intentionally incorporating Denison's civic engagement, leadership, and design thinking models into community and relationship-building efforts.

  • Collaborated with Student Housing Operations and Planning to identify areas to meet to needs of incoming and current Queer and Transgender housing policy, housing, and roommate application.

  • Served as a point of contact for 650 first-year students experiencing personal crisis and mental health concerns.

  • Operated as an adjudicating officer for low-level policy and housing contract violations; ensure that university policies are communicated and supported.

  • Oversaw, managed, facilitated, and assessed programming and outreach focused on First-Year undergraduate community at Denison. Apply identity development, intersectionality and social justice frameworks to programs, trainings, events, and supportive resources. Coordinate student outreach with Assistant Director.

  • Maintained high visibility and engagement with the student body and first-year communities overseen through active collaboration with the Dean of First-Year students, Dean of Students, and various directors of in the Office of Student Development. 

  • Effectively worked with culturally diverse students, to coach, mentor, and support dynamic needs.

  • Assessed the needs of residential students on evenings and weekends; worked with student staff and campus partners to create programming efforts to target student needs.

  • Served in a 24-hour on-call rotation for the entire campus population of 2,300 students, responding to campus crises, student conflict, student medical transport.

  • Facilitated meetings with students, encouraging conflict resolution through mediation meetings and refer students as needed.

Presentation 

 “College Student Epistemological, Intellectual, and Moral Development” The University of Vermont Burlington, October 2021 with Rahelle Gogerly-Moragoda

Presentation 

The Kenyon College Queer and Trans Studies Conference “The Impact of COVID-19 on Trans and Nonbinary Student Housing Options” April 2021 with Max Cordes-Galbraith and Mattie Schaefer, Spring 2021

Presentation

Higher Education Case Study Presentation: “Student Media and the “Satirization” of Native American Life, Fall 2020

Presentation

“LGBTQ+ Allyship and Facilities: A Partnership Model,” MAPPA, Minneapolis, MN 2019 with Michael Supp.

Workshop

“Getting Ready? What you need to be College Ready!” TRIO Program, February 2022.

Workshop

An LGBTQ+ Inclusive College Environment for UT” The University of Tampa, February - March 2022.

Workshop

“We are here for you. Utilizing Student Affairs Professionals in your College Journey” The College Success Program; The Price Family Foundation, October 2021.

Workshop

An LGBTQ+ Inclusive College Environment. Creating Space at Whitman” Whitman College, October 2020.

Workshop

“Supporting LGBTQ+ High School students into College” School counselors we’ll be there for you, Licking County” The Ohio State University, November 2019.

Invited Panelist

“Inside Ourselves Outside Ourselves LGBTQIA Identity and Expression” Denison Studio Arts Department November 2019

Invited Panelist

“Coping with COVID: A Panel about LGBTQ+ Resilience During the Pandemic” The Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network (GLSEN) April 2020.

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