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Margaret Warner Graduate School and
College of Arts and Sciences
. Ph.D. Candidate, ABD Teaching and Curriculum
. Scandling Merit Scholar
. MAT Masters in Art of Teaching
Joint Degree: Literature and Teaching & Curriculum
. NY Certificate in Secondary Language Arts

Nazareth College, Rochester, New York
. B.A. English Literature Elizabeth Remington Scholar
•2004 MCC International Children’s Literature Conference: Off to See the Wizard: Quest for Memory and Culture in Children’s Literature, Budget Coordinator,Art-Walk Coordinator,Proposal Judge
•2003 Conference on College Composition and Communication 2003 Annual Convention “Knowledge, Knowing and Rethinking Martin Buber’s Community Theory”
•2002 Grant Recipient NEH/CCHA Conference –presentation and work session for Teacher Preparation Program at MCC
•2002 Learning Community Conference and Retreat – team work session for BUS 104/ENG 101
•2002 CCHA Northeastern Conference, New York – presentation “Advancing the Humanities”
•2002 League for Innovation CIT conference presentation: Words
without Faces – Online Communities and Intersubjective relationships
•2002 CCCC Conference March 2003 preparation – presentation:
Response to Langston Hughes English B
•2002 Faculty Orientation Series presentation – “What is Online
Teaching?”
•2002 SLN Experienced Faculty Workshop2001: Presentation: “Taking Over
an Existing Course”
•2001 Society for Technical Communications: Presenter: "Getting in
Touch with Your Editing Self" Seminar presentation of most confused and overlooked - along with some of the simple and overlooked -- writing conventions.
•2000 & 2001 Society for Technical Communications: 40th Technical
Publications Competition: Judge in two categories: Quick Reference Guides and Textbooks. This regional
•2000 Kodak KNECT: Communication: Keeping it Concise, Precise and
Direct- all that and a - “YOU” Attitude in E-Mail
Presentation for Kodak support staff professional development Approx. 200 Power Point presentation and interactive discussion
•2000 League for Innovation in the Community College: Innovations
2000 Conference “Real World” Skills Training Invites Student Interest” Roundtable discussion: 1. Many students feel they have no choice in some of their course selections – especially literature. When they are given the possibility to work though analysis and interpretation with skills they know can be used to improve their career possibilities, they also become open to the exploration of literature and its possibility to experience and create new knowledge for self and society. 2. How this critical pedagogy methodology could work in other disciplines 3. Where the teacher stands as an authority in this classroom
•1998 U of R Workshop: Group Facilitation "Empowering for Social
Change" Presenter: Ira Shor, Ph.D. Professor of composition and rhetoric, Ph.D. Program in English, City University of NY
•1998 "Building a Sixth Grade House: Teachers, Counselors and
Administrators Seeking Systemic Change through Collaboration A Ford Foundation (REAC/CHOICE, Inc.) Project Retreat Leader, Organizer and Facilitator
•1998 New England Education Association
Symposium Organizer and Presenter: "Critical Pedagogies Across Sites"
1996 Conference Organization Assistant Susan B. Anthony Institute for Women's Studies and Margaret Warner Graduate School. Team member in the organization of Feminist Pedagogies Conference with keynote speaker - Linda Stone, University North Carolina, Chapel Hill
•1995 University of Rochester, Susan B. Anthony Institute for Women's
Studies "Constructing Theory: Teen Women and Feminism"

Grant Work

•Rochester Education Access Collaborative: Ford Foundation GrantCommunity Collaborative Intervention Development of connective pathways between schools and colleges and universities
--Team Leader Representative and Budget
--Manager/Planner for the middle school component of the collaborative.
--Attendee national conferences, create and implement programs at Frederick Douglass Middle School.
--Grant Writer Collaborative Grant Writing
Curriculum Design Douglas Middle School/
--University team member for the writing and implementation of a work-based curriculum.
--Program Evaluation Ford Foundation report on program year. Proposal for implementation plan for sustained school evaluation. Supervisor: Dr. Harold Wechsler
--Magnet School Design East High School/University team member for the development and implementation of an Education Magnet.

Program Evaluation and Editing

--Program Evaluator Ford Foundation, Building Academic Pipelines: sixteen city initiative in increase the number of under-represented students through to the college baccalaureate

Copy Editor: Cultural Studies Journal, New York and London. Special guest editors’ edition: essays on the pedagogical implications in the work of Toni Morrison, Nobel Prize author. Supervisor: Dr. Warren Crichlow.

Program Evaluator: National Science Foundation -Evaluation of "CHANGE" program in local middle school. Team member: interview schedules, data collection, transcription, meetings. Social Science Research Council Grant. Supervisor: Dr. Warren Crichlow.

Program Evaluator: NY State evaluation of Liberty Partnership (MCC urban tutorial program) Team member: interview schedules, data collection, statistical analysis, transcription, meetings. Supervisor: Dr. Warren Crichlow

•American Educational Research Association
•Association of Business Communication
•College Composition and Communication
•Community Colleges Humanities Association
•International Board on Books for Young People
•Children’s Literature Association
•American Association of Women in Community College
Technical Consultant
Technical Writer
Small Business Owner-Retail Furniture
Residential & Business Interior Design IDS