Work Experience
NOW:
Lecturer in Creative Writing, Loughborough University: Course: Story Design for Creative industries (20 credits); Course: Digital Storytelling (10 Credits). University of Westminster: Storytelling across Platforms
Director of Community Programs, StoryCenter.
Assistant Fiction Editor, Foglifter Literary Magazine
Creative Copywriter, Instinct Animations
Freelance Writer & Editor
EU Research Collaborator, UK Team. Erasmus+ Partnership for Digital Education Readiness FutureAbility- Digital and transversal Skills for Online teachers.
Dance Performer, Satelliser: a dance for the gallery: A durational performance work, BALTIC CCA and Turner Contemporary 2021, forthcoming Bluecoat 2022/23.
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2013-2016: Mental Health Counselor, Seneca Family of Agencies
2011-2016: Research Assistant, Departments: Neuroscience, Clinical Education. Institutions: Duke University, Georgia Institute for Technology, University of San Francisco
2013-2014: Clinical Research Coordinator, Neuropsychology, University of Michigan: Ann Arbor
Keynotes & Guest Lectures
“Narratives for Change” Presenter. Mayo Clinic Conference. Humanities in Medicine Symposium 2021 Engaging Across Disciplines: Toward a Practice of Transdisciplinarity
“Finding yourself in/through Stories” Princeton University. Students and Alumni of Color Symposium 2021
“On Telling Powerful Stories with Digital Media” Guest Lecture. School of Media and Communication, University of Leeds. 2021
“Story Sharing and Healing through Telling” Storytelling Presenter & Panelist.The Schwartz Center. Compassion for Healthcare Conference. 2021
“Story Justice” University of Massachusetts Amherst, Sparking Storied Justice Forum. Virtual Event October 2020.
“Reckoning with Racism” University of Washington. August - November 2020.
“Storytelling as a tool for Effective Community Outreach and Engagement” Viiv Healthcare. New Orleans. October 2019.
“Revisiting You: Creating Personal Stories with the Collective” NaNoWriMo, Palos Verdes Library. November 2019.
“Facilitating Ethical Story Sharing” Violence Intervention Program. Harlem, NY. July 2019.
“Trans Teen and Family Narratives Project: Digital Storytelling Workshop” Boston Children’s Hospital. June 2019.
“Network to Freedom: Stories of the Underground Railroad. Storytelling Workshop” National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom. September 2018 & November 2019.
“Storytelling for Patients and Practitioners” Spina Bifida Association & Duke University, 2019.
“When Neuro met Story: Applying Neuroscience and Psychology to Narratives of Self and Society” Reveal Investigative Fellows, NPR. October 2018.
“The Psychology Behind Building Believable Characters” NaNoWriMo, Palos Verdes Library. October 2018.
“The Power of Personal Storytelling” Lead Facilitator. Roddenberry Fellows Storytelling Workshops February 2021.
“Storytelling to see the Self” Lead Facilitator. ACLU Storytelling. March 2021.
“Storytelling as data” Lead Facilitator. Maternal Telehealth Access Project: Workshop Series (April 2021)
“Why your stories (will always) matter” Lead Facilitator. Oregon Coalition Against Domestic & Sexual Violence Youth Workshop Series. May 2021.
“Arts-based companion manuals to DSM: reapproaching the content of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders with the Humanities” Panelist. DST Conference 2021. Loughborough University. June 2021.
“Storytelling in these times.” RESIST Social Justice Foundation. May 2022.
“Storytelling to see the Self,” ACLU. May 2022.
“New Conjure Women: Hoodoo Storytelling.” Swarthmore College. December 2021.
“The power of Personal Narrative.” University of California: San Francisco, Biochemistry Dept. September 2021.
“Experimental Documentary Studies.” Humanature. September 2021.