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Professional Profile

With an amazing student at Tangaza University College in Nairobi Kenya.

  • Student-centered educator with 15 years of experience teaching
    post-secondary courses in rhetoric, composition, argumentation,
    persuasion, research, communications, critical thinking, and
    literature.

  • Professional writer and editor with more than 20 years of
    experience in print and digital media.

  • Proven success teaching traditional and non-traditional
    learners, mature adult learners, first-generation students, and
    learners from diverse backgrounds.

  • Demonstrated subject mastery and success teaching writing
    across disciplines to students of varied skill levels and interests.

  • Demonstrated success teaching face-to-face, online, hybrid and
    blended courses.

  • Experience with Prior Learning Assessment (PLA) and
    competency-based education.

  • Proven experience successfully creating, writing, editing, and
    proofing compelling content in a wide array of subjects and
    genres including magazine features, blogs, books, and peerreviewed
    scholarly publications.

  • Experienced presenter

  • Lifelong learner

Areas of Expertise

  • Writing to think, learn, communicate, document, reflect, empower, transform, and heal

  • Rhetoric, Composition, Argumentation & Persuasion, Critical Thinking, Written & Oral Communication

  • Race and identity in popular culture and media Prince Studies

  • House Music History & Culture

  • Supporting non-traditional and adult learners in higher education Teaching first-year students

  • Course Design

Teaching Experience

VISITING SENIOR PROFESSIONAL LECTURER
DePaul University, Chicago, IL | 2017 - Present

Teach and design core undergraduate and graduate writing and communications courses in the School for Continuing and Professional Studies; serve as content expert/reviewer.

Courses taught:

  • Essay Writing

  • Research Writing

  • Reflective Learning

Original Courses:

  • Voice & Identity in Writing

  • Confronting Writer's Block

 

SENIOR PROFESSIONAL LECTURER
DePaul University, Chicago, IL| 2012 - 2017

As a member of the full-time non-tenure track faculty, I taught writing and communications courses in the School for New Learning and performed administrative duties to support the college’s writing program. In addition to my teaching load, my duties included course management; coordinating and facilitating writing boot camps, assessing writing proficiency exams, and prior learning assessment.


Courses:

  • Academic Writing for Adults /Writing for Competence

  • Writing Workshop

  • Writing & Critical Thinking

  • WriteNow! SNL Writing Marathon

  • Independent Learning Seminar

  • Teach with Writing in Any Course (faculty professional development course)

Original Courses:

  • The House Chicago Built

  • Prince: A New Breed Leader
     

I also supported the Writing Program Administrator by planning, organizing, and hosting bi-annual faculty development meetings and planning, developing and coordinating annual student writing events (Writing Showcase Live and Month of Writing), writing blogs, creating a writing guide resource for faculty and students, observing and training new writing faculty, supporting the integration of e- Portfolios into core courses and assessing writing e-Portfolios, serving as unit liaison with the University Writing Center to advocate for dedicated support for nontraditional adult learners, staying current on writing across the discipline research and theories to support students and faculty, conference presentations and publication.

 

Additionally, I performed college and university-wide service. I  served as a professional advisor for undergraduate and graduate students. I also served on multiple committees including traveling to Nairobi, Kenya to work with students and faculty as part of the Tangaza University College program, and serving on the Curriculum Committee, African Diaspora Committee, and University Academic Integrity Committee.

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH
National Louis University, Chicago, IL | 2018 - 2019

I taught first-year composition and literature courses in the University’s Undergraduate College (UGC), collaborated with English faculty on curriculum revision and development.

  • Facilitated first-year writing courses using the UGC’s unique blended and flipped classroom model

  • Collaborated with English Department faculty on curriculum revision and development

  • Attended weekly Student Success Meetings to provide personalized data-driven student support Completed weekly student progress reports using EAB Navigate

  • Engaged in ongoing professional development 

 
FULL-TIME WRITING INSTRUCTOR
Westwood College, Chicago, IL | 2007 - 2012

As a member of the full-time General Education faculty, I taught a full course load; developed course curriculum, assessments, grading rubrics and syllabi; served on multiple committees, trained new writing faculty, designed and led TurnItIn plagiarism workshops for all faculty; tutored and advised students. Additional service to the college included working as a writing tutor, serving as advisor on the 17 North student literary arts magazine, acting as assistant Freshman Experience coordinator, and serving on the Academic Integrity and English Curriculum committees.

Courses:

  • College Writing I & II

  • Research Methodologies (Research Writing) Critical Thinking

  • Public Speaking

  • Student Success Strategies

 

ADJUNCT FACULTY
Chicago, IL & Online | 2005 - 2012; 2019

I have taught writing and communications course face-to-face and online at a number of colleges and universities including College Unbound (Rhode Island/Online), University of Phoenix (Online), Saint Xavier University, East-West University, Morton College

Courses:

  • Rhetoric & Composition I & II

  • Critical Thinking & Writing

  • Technical Writing

  • Persuasion & Research

  • Research Writing

  • Oral Communication

Education

M.S.    Journalism, Roosevelt University, Chicago, May 2005.

 

B.A.    Arts, Entertainment and Media Management, Columbia College, Chicago, January 1998.

 

Online Teaching Certificates

 

  • Copyright – University of Phoenix, 2011

  • Academic Integrity – University of Phoenix, 2010

  • Teaching Critical Thinking – University of Phoenix, 2009

  • Evaluating Student Writing – University of Phoenix, 2009

     

Enjoying a dance lesson with students in my original course The House Chicago Built. Phenomenal guest speaker and dance instructor Boogie McClarin had us all moving our bodies!

Skills

Desire2Learn

Blackboard

Digication

Screencast

Social Media

MS Office

Acrobat

Adobe Photoshop

Zoom

Google Suite

Google Classroom

EAB Navigate

Styles

MLA
APA

AP

Chicago

Languages

Standard American English

African American Vernacular English

Basic Spanish

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