CV/Teaching Experience/Conferences/Boards
Adjunct Professor of English
University of Chicago, Graham School of General Studies, The Writer's Studio, Novel Writing
Roosevelt University, English, Writing, Chicago, IL
American Academy of Art, Chicago, Literature, Composition, Research, MFA, Artists in Literature
International Academy of Design and Technology, English, Writing, Chicago,
Katharine Gibbs College, NYC, Literature, Composition, Writing
Goodwin College, CT, Reading and Writing
ESL & INTERNATIONAL
Parsons School of Design, NYC, ESL
MacCormac College, Chicago, ESL
CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS INTERAMERICANOS, Cuenca, ECUADOR, EFL, Cross-Cultural Literature, Writing
Teaching Artist—Creative Writing
Charter Oak Cultural Center, Hartford, CT, 2016-Present, Creative Writing *Teacher of the Month- 2022 https://charteroakcenter.org/charter-oak-yai-instructor-honored/
Hartford Performs, Hartford Public Schools, 2018- Present, Creative Writing
CT Office of the Arts, Directory of Teaching Artists/ CT Center for Nonviolence- certification in Kingian Principles of Nonviolence for teaching artists
JCC of Greater Hartford, CT Creative Writing
Kingswood Oxford Summer Camp, West Hartford, CT, Creative Writing
The Mark Twain House Writing Program, Hartford, CT, Creative Writing
Connecticut Humanities Council Grants: YWCA, “Words in Motion: Creative Writing and Yoga for Teens”, Hartford, CT, Girlcott
Senior Voices: Poetry and Yoga for Seniors, FEDERATION SQUARE RESIDENCE, CT
StoryStudio Chicago, Chicago, IL.2007-2010, Creative Writing Workshops
Gallery 37 After School Matters, Chicago, IL
NYC Parks, Arts After School Programs
Poetry Center of Chicago: “Hands on Stanzas"
Boards & Affiliations
Narrative 4- Artist Network & Story Exchange Facilitator
The Pollination Project, Grantee Community and Greenhouse Global Cohort- 2022
Creative Community Fellows, National Arts Strategies 2019 New England Cohort- 2019
Greater Hartford Arts Council, Artist Advisory Committee Member- 2021
Conferences/ Editor/Curator
AWP Baltimore: Presenter 2025: Debuting After 50
AWP Philadelphia: Moderator and Presenter 2023 "Radical Empathy: Writing and Community Engagement as a form of Resistance"
Key West Literary Seminars, Merit Scholarship 2022
Wesleyan Writer's Conference, Merit Scholarship 2019
Sewanee Writers' Conference, 2015
Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, 2010
Founder and Co-Curator of Sunday Salon Chicago: A Reading Series: Chicago, 2006-2009
Make Magazine; a Chicago Literary Magazine, Fiction Reader, 2007-2009