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Writer, editor, expert storyteller, and highly skilled educator with nearly 20 years in the fields of education and content who bests in tailoring messaging to an audience, curriculum design, and training. Need a creative professional who thrives in collaborative relationships AND leadership? It’s me!

Colorado State University: Assistant Professor and Faculty Director
(2018-present)

  • Face-to-face, hybrid, and online instruction in humanities, writing, and English courses

    • E240 The Study of Poetry (face-to-face format)

    • E140 The Study of Literature (face-to-face format)

    • CO301D Writing in the Disciplines: Education (face-to-face format)

    • CO301A: Writing in the Disciplines: Arts and Humanities (face-to-face format)

    • CO300 Writing Arguments (face-to-face, online, and hybrid formats)

    • CO150 College Composition (face-to-face, online, and hybrid formats)

  • Inclusive, active, experiential, student-centered curriculum to meet students’  needs

  • Formative and summative written, audio, video feedback on projects and discussions

  • Use of Canvas LMS to facilitate discussions, communicate with students, hold workshops and webinars, and provide feedback for projects in both MLA and APA citation styles

  • Attends and presents at DEISJ trainings, serves on equity committees, facilitates professional development for faculty in experiential learning, Open Educational Resources, DEISJ, and labor equity initiatives in the college of Liberal Arts

Davis Phinney Foundation for Parkinson's: Director of Education and Content
(2023-2024)

  • Visionary thought leader of education strategy, content development, and external partnerships with various stakeholders in the medical and Parkinson's disease community

  • Interviewed subject matter experts in scientific and medical communities; editor-in-chief for all outgoing copy (website, emails, newsletters, etc.)

  • Coached and mentored the content/marketing teams to leverage data for content optimization on various platforms

  • Acquisition of and continuing education in disease state information for content production

  • Designed, wrote, and implemented curriculum for educational courses, trainings, and workshops

Iko Brands: Editorial Director
(2022-2023)

  • Developed and managed all editorial processes and communications for ~80-person content team

  • Published in-house style guides for best writing, editing, and SEO practices across 24 websites

  • Hired and trained content team via synchronous sessions, exclusively curated publication materials, copious formative and summative written feedback on every submitted article

  • Created and instructed ongoing professional development sessions for every writer and editor

  • Read and approved all content for publication based on standards I built and taught to the team

  • Collaborated daily with SEO team, advertising team, and C-suite administration; learned and communicated processes in every one of these realms

  • Delegated tasks, oversaw publication calendar, helped writers meet deadlines, used Slack and Airtable in addition to internal content management system

Super Summary: Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction Content and Line Editor
(2019-2022)

  • Skillfully used Microsoft Suite and Airtable for line/content editing in humanities curriculum

  • Composed in-house style guides and training/coaching feedback for new writers and editors

  • Created person-specific feedback and coaching/training materials for new writer on-boarding

University of Northern Colorado: English Instructor
(2017-2018)

  • In-person instruction in introductory and intermediate level composition courses

    • ENG123 College Research Paper (face-to-face format

    • ENG122 College Composition (face-to-face format)

  • Organic curriculum generation and delivery centered on a common syllabus

  • Use of the Canvas LMS to facilitate discussions, communicate with students, hold workshops and webinars, and provide formative and summative feedback on submitted work

Shmoop University: Senior Editor and Content Developer
(2014-2019)

  • Always met tight deadlines to write 100+ and/or edit 300+ pages of content per week

  • Lesson content and video script development in numerous genres

  • Line, content, and developmental editing; research; basic HTML coding

  • Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) Reading Comprehension test preparation video scripts for the following topics:

    • Tone and mood

    • Summarizing a passage

    • Denotation vs. connotation

  • Organic content development and editing for the following American Council for Education's (ACE) College Credit Courses:

    • Professional Writing

    • Psychology: Behaviorism

    • Public Speaking

    • Foundations of Education

    • Business Communications

  • Organic curriculum content development and editing in the following subject areas (grades 6 – 12):

    • AP English

    • AP Psychology

    • AP US History

    • Sociology

    • Women's Studies

    • Language Arts

    • American and World History

    • Creative Writing

    • College and Career Readiness

    • Early Childhood Education

    • Young Adult Literature

    • Writing for College Success

    • Planning for and Achieving College Success

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