Education
Ph.D. Rhetoric & Writing, University of Texas at Austin, Expected 2020, “The Available Means of Motherhood: Writing as a Tool to Mother While Behind Bars,” Advisor: Patricia Roberts-Miller
M.A. Rhetoric & Writing , University of Texas at Austin, 2016, “Writing Their Way Through Motherhood: An Investigation of Writing’s Role in the Methods Incarcerated Mothers use to Mother While Behind Bars,” Advisors: Patricia Roberts-Miller & Casey Boyle
Certificate in Women and Gender Studies, Texas Christian University, 2015
B.A. English, Colorado State University-Pueblo, Pueblo, CO, 2011
Honors & Awards
May Excellence Award, University of Texas at Austin, 2019
English Department Travel Grant, University of Texas at Austin, 2015-2018
Florence Durrett Endowed Presidential Scholarship, University of Texas at Austin, 2016
Global Outlooks on Education Institute Fellow , Texas Christian University, 2015
Graduate Student Travel Grant, Texas Christian University, 2013, 2014
English Department Travel Grant, Texas Christian University, 2012, 2013
University Fellowship, Texas Christian University, 2012- 2013
Certificates
Inclusive Classrooms Leadership, University of Texas at Austin, 2018
Grant Writing I, II, University of Texas at Austin, 2018
Questionnaire Design and Survey Analysis, University of Texas at Austin, 2016
Certificate in “Crucial Conversations” Training, Texas Christian University, 2013
course work
University of Texas at Austin
Rhetoric & Writing Studies, Spring 2017
Networked Writing, SUPV Teaching in Rhet/Writing, Fall 2016
Feminist Jurisprudence, Extrahuman Rhetorical Relations, Spring 2016
Memory/Trauma/Violence, Digital Rhetorics, Race/Class/ Gender in American TV, Fall 2015
Texas Christian university
Directed Pedagogy: Women’s Rhetoric, History of Rhetoric, Introduction to Feminist Theory, Spring 2015
Writing for the Profession, Dissertation Hours, Fall 2014
Modern Critical Theory, Women’s Rhetoric, Research Practices: Rhetoric & Composition, Spring 2014
Directed Pedagogy: Prison Literature, Teaching College Composition, Fall 2013
Directed Study: Critical Race Theory, Modern Rhetoric, Spring 2013
Introduction to Composition Studies, Latino/a Poetics, Language and Theory, Fall 2012
Teaching experience
Instructor of Record
Leadership Enterprise for a Diverse America, Princeton, Summer 2017, 2018, 2019
RHET 309K: The Rhet of Injustice in Comics, University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2017, Spring 2018
RHET 306: Cost & Crisis in Higher Education, University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2016, Spring 2017
ENG 20803: Writing As Argument , Texas Christian University, Fall 2014, Spring 2015
ENG 10803: Writing As Inquiry Texas Christian University, Fall 2013, Spring 2014
Teaching Assistant
RHET 398T: Supervised Teaching, University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2018, Fall 2019
E316L: British Literature, University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2015, Spring 2016
Adult GED Course, Pueblo County Jail, Spring 2011, Summer 2011
Co-Taught
SOC 307E: Contemporary U.S. Social Problems, Gardner Betts Juvenile Detention Center, Spring 2019
Designed
RHE 306: Inclusion and Diversity on the College Campus, University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2019
Academic Work Experience
Assistant Director of Lower Division Rhetoric and Writing, University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2018-Present
Presentations CO-Coordinator, UT University Writing Center, Fall 2017-Present
Writing Consultant, UT University Writing Center, Summer 2016, Fall 2016, Spring 2017
Tutor—English, Math, Social Studies, Math Around the Corner, Fort Worth, TX, 2015-2016
Admissions Counselor, Ashford University, Denver, CO, 2012
Service
Writing Center Inclusion Discussion Group, University of Texas at Austin, 2019
Lower Division Rhetoric & Writing Curriculum Committee, University of Texas at Austin, 2017-2018
Lower Division Rhetoric & Writing Online Curriculum Committee, University of Texas at Austin, 2017-2018
First-Year Forum Committee, University of Texas at Austin, Spring 2017, Spring 2018
Incarcerated Survivors Advocacy Program, Austin, TX, 2017-2018
Opening Doors For Women, Fort Worth, TX, 2014
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