Education
Simmons University
Boston, MA | September 2024-Present
- Master's Candidate in Library & Information Science, Libraries and Librarianship Concentration.
- Coursework:
- "Information Service, Behaviors & Ethics"
- "Technology for Information Professionals"
- "Social Informatics"
Amherst College
Amherst, MA | May 2019
B.A. in English & B.A. in French, Native & Indigenous Studies Certificate, magna cum laude. GPA: 3.83/4.00
- Senior honors thesis in English: "All of it is a code anyway": Augmenting a Literary Web for Almanac of the Dead
- Thesis Advisors: Lisa Brooks and Marisa Parham
- Study Abroad: Center for University Programs Abroad, Paris, France | Spring 2018 | GPA: 4.0/4.0
Employment and Experience
Libertas Academy Charter School
Springfield, MA | August 2021-July 2024
ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS TEACHER | August 2023-July 2024
- Instructed a Common Core-aligned English Language Arts curriculum to 95 sixth grade students across three classes for 150 to 270 minutes daily, analyzed student reading & writing on a weekly basis with quarterly assessments to determine academic strengths & areas for growth, & implemented targeted academic instruction based on prior data.
SOCIAL STUDIES TEACHER | November 2021-July 2023
- Instructed history to 85 sixth grade students across three classes for 120 minutes daily, accommodated & revised daily student-facing materials, graded student assignments & reviewed academic data, held weekly study halls & after-school office hours to ensure alignment with the school's academic mission.
TEACHING FELLOW | August 2021-November 2021
- Co-taught 82 eighth graders in three English Language Arts classes for 240 minutes daily; substituted in sixth grade science within a morning's notice; taught sixth grade social studies in a class of 22 students.
Five College Blended Learning & Digital Humanities, Five Colleges, Inc.
Amherst, MA June 2019-June 2020
INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY SPECIALIST & POST-BACCALAUREATE FELLOW in BLENDED LEARNING & DIGITAL HUMANITIES
- Served as the sole full-time administrator for the 5CollBLDH program alongside the director Dr. Eric Poehler.
- Preserved three program websites & 12 hosted websites to the Wayback Machine.
- Adapted the 2020 5CollDH Undergraduate Symposium to an all-virtual ZOOM format during COVID-19; facilitated the live-streamed showcase with 250 virtual attendees & managed technical components of the event; edited three hours of recording footage via Adobe Premiere Pro; uploaded event videos to YouTube.
- Advised four 5CollDH Undergraduate Fellows on digital components in their senior thesis projects; guided the students through technical hurdles, and ensured they successfully met fellowship deadlines.
- Designed & led a 1.5-hour workshop on the Twine digital writing tool at UMass Amherst for 30 undergraduate students & 7 community members; consulted attendees on technical issues surrounding coding variables, conditional logic, CSS, & JavaScript, introduced a method for creating stable story URLs & caching multimedia files via Github repositories, adapted & distributed preexisting pedagogical materials, & administered a follow-up survey in which respondents indicated increased familiarity with digital writing.
- Consulted with 3 faculty members working in digital humanities on 3 projects to update humanities course curricula & integrate teaching technologies into the syllabi; determined individual project needs, developed personalized plans of action, recommended specific digital platforms including Scalar, Omeka, & Omeka S.
Beneski Museum of Natural History, Amherst College
Amherst, MA | January 2017-May 2019
MUSEUM DOCENT
- Implemented pedagogy & andragogy of the museum’s paleolithic fossil & local Ichnology collections, personalized informational tours to 60 to 500 visitors daily, & presented field-trip tours to thirty to eighty K-12 students on a bimonthly basis.
