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)

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

• Turning my dissertation, “Gated Entry and Code: A Critical Feminist Inquiry Into English as Gendered Symbolic Power Amongst Multilingual Women,” into a book

• Working with my longtime writing partner, Dr. Michele McConnell of CSU Fresno, on a journal article and book chapter

Soon:

• Submitting a book chapter for review

Not-So-Distant Past:

• Served as an English Language Specialist in Indonesia with the U.S. Department of State (July 2024)

• 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

• Presenting (virtually) at TESOL 2024

• Attended the CATESOL State Conference in Alameda in October 2023 and was installed to the CATESOL Board

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

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