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)

  • Participating in the 2023-2024 Stanford EPIC Community College Faculty Fellowship

  • 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:

  • (Virtually) presenting at TESOL 2024

Not-So-Distant Past:

  • Completed the summer intensive for my Stanford EPIC Fellowship

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

  • Served as an English Language Specialist with the U.S. Department of State (U.S. Embassy; Islamabad, Pakistan)

  • (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