Administrative Experience: 

• Dean of Students: Oversee student discipline, create opportunities for community outside the classroom, plan and facilitate weekly all-school assemblies, liase with parents about their children's school life, organize grade-level retreats, and coordinate with faculty to chaperone school events. 
• Honor Dean: Communicate with faculty, parents, and administration regarding disciplinary situations with students. Work with dean of student life to administer and follow up with discipline.  Currently in the third year of revising our disciplinary system to educate, implement, and facilitate a restorative justice model within our school community.  

• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Task Force Leader: Led a group of faculty and administrators in implementing and adopting DEI practices on campus, designed a feedback and reporting “dashboard” for our school, engineered professional development workshops for faculty in-service days.

• Grade Level Dean: Faculty advisor to an incoming class of students that travels with them through graduation. Work closely with dean of student life and other grade level coordinators to plan class retreats, advise student council, and run class meetings.  

School Service: 

• School Reaccreditation Committee: A small group of faculty, staff, and administrators who wrote a self-study document and met with an outside auditing panel in order to earn the school’s most recent reaccreditation (renewed every 5 years).

• DEI Director Hiring Committee: Worked with a small group of stakeholders in the school's open search for an inaugural director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

• Mentor Teacher to New Faculty: An ongoing and evolving role that includes meeting with a cohort of new faculty as a whole to discuss schoolwide culture, policies, and new faculty concerns, as well as mentoring new STEM teachers individually in developing lesson plans and pedagogical techniques. 

• Penn Fellows Mentor: Work one-on-one with a graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania to coach them in teaching throughout their first two years as an educator. Provide direct, weekly feedback and assessment as well as semester reports back to their graduate school professors. 

Teaching:

• STEM Department: AP Chemistry, Honors Chemistry, General Chemistry, General Physics, Applied Mathematics, Algebra II, Honors Geometry (semester-long and summer accelerated programs).

• Humanities Department: History of Science (original course accredited by the University of California High School Articulation Program), Science Fiction (an English elective).

• Equity and Inclusion Seminar a quarter-long class that explores issues of privilege in the context of current events and school culture. Offered twice a year.

• Senior Health and Wellness: Original course designed to prepare senior students for adulthood and college by teaching life skills such as money management, resume writing, substance abuse, and transitioning out of high school.  

• Freshman Health and Wellness: A weekly course focused on belonging and social-emotional learning.

• Academic Advisor: advise a cohort of 10-12 mixed-grade-level students on academic, student life, and SEL matters in weekly meetings.

• Forensics: Debate Coach (yearlong season, 2014-2015)

• Yearbook Advisor: Facilitated the student-designed publication by organizing deadlines, maintaining budgets, and coordinating student page assignments.  

Extracurriculars

• Outdoor Education: Coordinated camping, hiking, rafting, and kayaking trips for both small groups of students and entire grade-level overnight retreats. 

• Travel: Lead chaperone on 10-day international trips to Mexico, Bali, Ireland, Patagonia, and New Zealand, as well as many shorter overnight or long weekend trips to conferences and debate tournaments. 

Administrative Experience: 

• Science Department Chair, 2013-2014 academic year

• Administrator on Duty: oversaw a residential duty team, planned weekend trips for students, and organized teacher/student schedules during the week. 

Teaching:

• Science Department: General Chemistry, Honors Chemistry, AP Chemistry

• Math Department: Algebra I, yearlong and summer accelerated programs   

Residential Life:

• Lead Dorm Parent: Head of a team of four dorm parents that oversaw a dorm of 30 girls.  Designed and implemented regular student life programming, organized dorm activities, hall meetings, room inspections, and student travel arrangements.

• Class Advisor: Faculty advisor to the Class of 2014 for four years. Organized fundraisers, planned prom, and facilitated regular class meetings and yearly retreats. 

Coaching:

• Head Varsity Girls’ Soccer Coach                                                                                             

• Head Varsity Tennis Coach                                   

2017 Wake Forest University Young Alumni Award

Awarded annually to a Wake Forest Chemistry graduate "under the age of 40, who has significantly contributed to any facet of the chemical sciences and continues to exemplify WFU’s commitment to excellence in their contributions."

2013 C. Herbert Foutz Award                                                                                              

West Nottingham Academy’s faculty-elected Teacher of the Year, selected for "excellence in teaching and service to the school." 

While a comprehensive list of professional development opportunities I have attended in my career is too immense to list here, my focus in recent years has been twofold: increasing my understanding of what diversity, equity, and inclusion in schools actually means, and expanding my skillset in educational leadership. Below is a curated list of conferences and workshops I have attended in recent years that have helped further these goals. 

Carney Sandoe Women’s (Re)Institute                                                                          

June 2021

CATDC Women + Leadership Conference                                                                   

January 2021

Anti-Racist Book Club

2020-2021 

This was an informal online cohort of educators who met monthly via Zoom to discuss best practices in our classrooms. Books read include How to be an Antiracist (Ibram X Kendi), Me and White Supremacy (Layla F Saad), White Fragility (Robin DiAngelo), Just Mercy (Bryan Stevenson), Between the World and Me (Ta-Nehisi Coates)

NAIS People of Color Annual Conference                                                                     

2017-2024

Head’s Network Women in Leadership Conference                                                    

April 2018

Leadership + Design Wonder Women! Workshop                                                       

July 2016

AIMS (Association of Independent Maryland Schools) Accreditation Team Member

Spring 2013

Graduate work towards a PhD in the History of Science and Technology

I wrote and defended a Master's level thesis on the role of gender in science and technology in the first half of the 20th century, focusing on the Bureau of Home Economics. This branch of the USDA, which existed from 1923-1962 was the only all-female government agency and hired women with PhDs in research sciences who could not find jobs elsewhere. Throughout its tenure, the Bureau played crucial roles in the US Government's response to the Great Depression, World War II, and the Cold War. 

Bachelor of Science, Magna Cum Laude

• Double Majors in Chemistry (with Honors) and History

• GPA 3.7 on a 4.0 Scale