2014 to Present
Adjunct Professor, English

• Teaching Literacy, Literature, Creative Writing, and Critical Thinking

• Faculty evaluations “exceed expectations.”

• Awarded “Outstanding Educator 2024”.

                2015 to 2024
Associate Professor and Department Chair, Liberal Arts

• Co-Founded Equity and Inclusion Committee—dedicated to the improvement of minority and underrepresented student experience at LCAD.

• Served as faculty advisor for Black Student Union—helping to prepare event programming and raise awareness of the BSU.

• Pioneered online education at LCAD.

• Instituting online teacher training, writing LCAD Online Education Guidelines, leading the scramble to teach remotely during the 2020 pandemic period.

• Oversaw the approval of new course and curricular changes as Chair of Curriculum.

• Led the overhaul of self-governance policy as President of Faculty Senate.

• Solved systemic retention issues and promoted student success as a member of the Retention Committee.

• Supervised the hiring of faculty, both full time and part time for Liberal Arts and Art History programs.

• Evaluated full and part time instructors.

• Developed and taught LA100-First Year Seminar, a course required for all students covering topics of metacognition, mindset, time management, learning resources, outcome achievement, and student enrichment. Course development and implementation has improved retention by a statistically significant measure.

• Developed and taught LA209-Dystopian Literature, covering critical thinking, literary analysis, civic engagement, written communication, and oral communication.

• Developed and taught LA280-Feminist Literature, covering critical thinking, literary analysis, civic engagement, written communication, and oral communication.

• Served in LCAD Writing Lab

• Teaching evaluations “exceed expectations.”

2014 to 2023
Adjunct Professor, English

• Teaching Literacy, Literature, Creative Writing, and Critical Thinking

• Voted “Most Inspirational Teacher” by EOPS students in 2016.

2014-2015
Lecturer, Composition

• Taught Writing 39C-Advanced Composition, the most advanced course in writing for non-Humanities majors, covering topics of written communication, oral communication, and information literacy, including research.

2013 -2014
Associate Professor, English

• Assessment Committee-served to help assessment activities and draft research reports related to assessment.

2009 -2013
Associate Professor, English

• Faculty Senate, English Representative. Serving to represent the faculty in shared governance; Fought to institute policies to extend benefits to “domestic partners.”

• Founder of Communicating Across the Curriculum Student Conference. Managed money and coordinated three-day student speech conference; coordinated presentations and judging; awarded scholarships.

• Assessment Committee member. Assisted in the drafting and revision of Institutional

Learning Outcomes (ILO), assisted in the drafting and revision of Program Learning Outcomes (PLO), assisted in assessment studies and in writing assessment reports.

• Scholarship Committee. Read applications and awarded student academic scholarships.

• Faculty Handbook Committee member. Served to help revise and revisit policies concerning faculty.

• Student Activities Committee member. Served to help student organizations coordinate and request funding for student activities; awarded funds for student activity requests.

2007-2009
Associate Professor, English

• Faculty Senate, English Representative. Served to represent the faculty in shared governance.

• Communicating Across the Curriculum Committee member. Served in a cognitive coaching committee dedicated to the improvement of instruction at the college.

• Student Life Committee member. Served to help student organizations plan, coordinate, and implement extensive student activities; allocated funds based on merit and need.

• Student Scholarship Committee member. Served to read and discuss student scholarship applications; awarded funds based on merit, need, and execution of proposal.

2005-2007
Assistant Professor, English

• Austin’s oldest educational institution, and one of the top HBCUs in Texas.

• Faculty Senate, English Representative. Served to represent the faculty in shared governance.

• Founding faculty advisor for the HTU Ram, student monthly newspaper.

• Founding faculty advisor for HTU Connections, student essay publication.

• Served in HTU Writer’s Studio, tutoring students at every level of writing for any writing project, creative or academic.

• Advanced writing across the curriculum initiatives.

• Teaching Literacy, Literature, Creative Writing, and Critical Thinking

2003-2005
Instructor, English

• Largest public technical college in Texas.

• Faculty Senate, Academic Chair. Served to represent the faculty in shared governance. Chaired committee on curriculum development and implementation.

• Writing Across the Curriculum Committee member. Served committee to help instructors in technical fields better implement writing projects as evidence of learning.

• Creative Writing Committee member. Committee dedicated to developing creative writing courses and projects for students.

• Founding faculty advisor, Creative Confluence: Student Creative Writing publication.

• Taught ESL to hundreds of students from Angola, as part of a work training program with Exxon-Mobile.

• Taught American Culture to hundreds of students from Angola, as part of a work training program with Exxon-Mobile.

• Winner of “Most Innovating Teacher” Award.

2003-2005
Adjunct Instructor, English

• Teaching Literacy, Literature, Creative Writing, and Critical Thinking

2002-2003
Instructor, English

• Teaching Literacy, Literature, Creative Writing, and Critical Thinking

• ESL Lab Tutor

• Writing Lab Tutor