Departmental, Campus, Pathway, and College Service
Throughout my time at Broward College, both as an adjunct and as full-time faculty, I have sought opportunities to support my students, my department, and my pathway. From chairing various committees, to creating courses for the Cares Act, to being a club advisor for student organizations, I have worked to uphold the college motto of “Together We Serve”.
College Committees
| 2021-Present | Co-Chair, wRites of Spring |
| 2021 | Chair, North Campus AD Search Committee |
| 2021 | Member, MMI Director Search Committee |
| 2020 | Member, Assistant Professor, Communication Search Committee |
| 2020 | Co-Chair, North Campus Professor of the Year Committee |
| 2019-2020 | Co-Chair, Honors Committee |
| 2019 | Chair, Honors Committee |
| 2018 | Member, Honors Committee |
Employee Resource Groups
| 2020 – Present | Member of BC ERG: Stronger Together: Sisterhood in the Workplace Committee |
Community Service
| 2021 | BC Cares – Paddle with a Purpose |
| 2020 | Participated in the African American Read-In |
| 2018 | BC Cares – Hugh Taylor Birch State Park |
Awards
| 2019 | Professor of the Year, North Campus |
| 2019 | Sammy Award, Outstanding Program of the Year, Virtual and Digital Media Club |
| 2018 | Excellence in Teaching Award, NSLS, Broward College, North Campus |
| 2018 | Student Life Seahawk Award, PTK, Broward College, North Campus |
| 2009 | Most Promising Graduate Teaching Assistant at Florida Atlantic University |
College Service
| 2021 | Peer Reviewer for the IDH2121 course for the Cares Act |
| 2020-2021 | Designed and Created the Online AML2020 class for the Cares Act |
| 2020 | Reviewed and revised the course outline for LIT2020, Introduction to Short Story, for the General Education Task Force |
| 2020 | Reviewed and revised LIT2310, Literature of The Fantastic: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror, for the General Education Task Force |
| 2019-Present | Member, Peer Forward Initiative, BC |
| 2019-Present | North Campus Honors Coordinator |
| 2018 | Honors and MMI Initiative Teambuilding Retreat North |
| 2012 | Curriculum Committee for new BCAE combined Writing and Reading class, BC |
| 2012 | Piloted and made Curriculum for new Jump Start Program, Broward College |
Presentations/Facilitation for Broward College
| 2020 | Presentation at North Campus Fall Welcome Back Meeting |
| 2019 | Presented the Honors Program at the Minority Male Initiative (MMI) Parents Mentoring Parents (PMP) meeting |
| 2019 | Facilitated – ETP018 “It’s in the Syllabus’: Preventing, Limiting and Dealing with Plagiarism” |
Student Organizations/Club Advisor Positions
| 2019-2020 | Advisor, Honors College Student Committee, North Campus |
| 2018-2020 | Advisor, Virtual and Digital Media Club, Broward College |
| 2017-2019 | Advisor, Phi Theta Kappa, Kappa’s Omega Phi Chapter, North Campus |
Service Outside Broward College
For the past eight years, I have held many positions on the Executive Board for The International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts including Student Volunteer Coordinator, Membership/Registration Coordinator, and First Vice President. As a student volunteer coordinator, I organized approximately 20 volunteers for the conference to work in areas such as AV and technology, registration desk work, and book room work. As the Membership/Registration Coordinator, I managed the membership for over 500 members, and I worked to make sure the registration process for the annual conference ran smoothly for the 300+ attendees. In addition, in this position, I helped transition the association from a paper-based membership and registration process to a digital one.
Lastly, in my role as First Vice President, I work with the eight division heads to create the sessions, panels, and roundtables for the annual conference, and I create the program for the three-day event. These positions have given me valuable experience in mentoring, organization, effective communication, and time management.
Positions
| 2019-Present | First Vice President, International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts |
| 2013-2016 | Membership/Registration Coordinator, IAFA |
| 2013–2015 | Vice President, Comparative Studies Student Assoc., Florida Atlantic University |
| 2010-2013 | Student Volunteer Coordinator, International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts |
| 2010 | Assistant Coordinator & Organizer, Haiti and The Americas Conference, FAU |
Conferences
| 2019 | “Power Plays: (Re) Creating Power Structures in The Legend of Eli Monpress Series, IAFA Conference, March |
| 2018 | Panelist on the “Teaching Genre Fiction” panel, IAFA Conference, March |
| 2017 | “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Read Them: Engaging the Animals in Fantasy,” IAFA Conference, March |
| 2016 | “It’s a Yin Yang Thing Baby: The Balance of Energy in Batwoman: Elegy,” IAFA Conference, March |
| 2015 | “Muddling the Pensive: (Re)Imagining and (Re)Creating the World of Harry Potter,” IAFA Conference, March |
| 2014 | “Re-Imagining Colonization Through Adaptation,” CSSA Symposium, April |
| 2013 | “Doves of Hope – Hope Through the Arts in Level 7,” IAFA Conference, March |
| 2011 | “Hope on the Horizon: Tiptree and “The Girl Who Was Plugged In,” IAFA Conference, March |
| 2010 | “Looking into the Future with James Tiptree Jr.” EGSS Conference, October |
| 2010 | “Silencing of the Other In Science Fiction Literature,” EGSS Conference, April |
| 2010 | “To Hear or Not To Hear: Unread Bodies in James Tiptree Jr.’s “The Girl Who Was Plugged In,” Stanislaw Lem’s Solaris, and Cordwainer’s Smith’s “The Dead Lady of Clown Town,” International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts, IAFA Conference, March |
| 2009 | “Button of Hope: Hope for Humanity in Mordacai Roshwald’s Level 7 and Miller’s Canticle for Leibowitz,” International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts, IAFA Conference, March |
