Things I’m Up To These Days…

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 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:

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

  • Presenting and sitting on two panels at TESOL 2025 in Long Beach

Not-So-Distant Past:

  • 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