As of April 2024, I am working as the Education and Communications Director at the Adirondack Center for Loon Conservation in Saranac Lake, New York. I manage community-based environmental stewardship programs, educational outreach efforts, and science communications for the organization.

 

Previously, I completed the graduate program in journalism at the University of Oregon in June 2020. While in grad school, I worked as the Civic Science Communications graduate employee within the Office of Research and Innovation and the Science Communication Research Center. From 2020 to 2023 I worked as an independent photographer, storyteller and educator.

 

I also have a Masters of Arts in Teaching (2009) and a BA in Comparative Literature and Art with a concentration in Writing (2005). I have worked as a high school teacher and community college instructor in Oregon, and collaborated with fellow educators internationally as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Thailand from 2011-2013, and as an English Language Fellow funded by the U.S. Department of State in Sudan 2015-2016. I was the interim Director of the English Language Resource Center at Al-Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt, in 2017. I have completed two English Language Specialist projects funded by the U.S. Department of State, one working with Mexican teachers to create English language podcasts (2020-2021) and one facilitating a Science Communications course for Russian science professionals (2022).

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I love to travel, read, backpack, canoe, ride horses, ski, fly fish, cycle, hike and eat new foods (preferably cooked on sticks along roadsides around the world).

 

In 2023, my husband and I took time off to thru hike the Appalachian Trail. It was six months well-spent.

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