Right now:

• Teaching and serving as Assistant Program Chair/Assistant WIOA Coordinator in the English as a Second Language Program at San Diego College of Continuing Education (SDCCE)

• Spending 8 months as a Social Justice Fellow with ACCCA through a partnership with the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office

• Serving as Associate Editor of Applied Linguistics, an Oxford University Press Journal

• Serving as an elected member of the CATESOL Board in the position of Interest Group Chair

• Working on a book on collaborative writing with my longtime writing partner, Dr. Michele McConnell of CSU Fresno

Soon:

• Putting together proposals for CATESOL 2025 and TESOL 2026

Not-So-Distant Past:

• Attended the Women in Higher Education Leadership Program at Harvard University

• Presented and sat on two panels at TESOL 2025 in Long Beach

• Published a book chapter (with Dr. Michele McConnell), “Co-Creating Complexities, New Epistemologies, and Sustaining Collaboration: The Effects of an Online Community of Practice in International Higher Education”

• Delivered four presentations at the 2024 CATESOL State Conference at CSU Los Angeles

• Completed a disciplinary expert report for ASCCC on the use of equitable and inclusive course and program names

• Served as an English Language Specialist in Indonesia with the U.S. Department of State

• Gave the plenary talk “Leveraging Home Languages and Promoting Linguistic Inclusivity for Student Success” at PELTIN

• Completed my 2023-2024 Stanford University EPIC Community College Faculty Fellowship and presented at the EPIC Symposium

• Presented (virtually) at TESOL 2024

• (Virtually) delivered a keynote for the “Implementing EMI in Higher Education: Lessons from Global Pioneers” conference in Algeria

• Served as an invited speaker on humanized writing assessment at the National Writing Center Consortium’s 5th Annual International Conference