Resume

• 2014

  PhD

  Latin American History

  University of Houston

• 2010

  Master's degree

  History

  University of Houston

• 2007

  BA

  History

  Member of PAPPA/Black Student Union\nBSU liaison to the Caribbean Students Organization

  University of Houston

• Microsoft Excel

  Writing

  Research

  Editing

  Microsoft Word

  History

  University Teaching

  Program Development

  Higher Education

  Public Speaking

  Nonprofits

  PowerPoint

  Teaching

  Community Outreach

  Windows

  Microsoft Office

  Wilson

  Texas Southern University

  University of Houston

  Multicultural Education and Counseling through the Arts

  University of Houston

  Department of History

  Department of History

  University of Houston

  1900 Kane Street and various onsite locales

  •\tDeveloped a curriculum and devised lesson plans for teaching the movements

  music and history of the Afro Brazilian art of Capoeira Angola\n•\tTaught students how to make instruments associated with capoeira\n•\tTaught students at the elementary

  junior high and high school level

  Arts Instructor

  Multicultural Education and Counseling through the Arts

  Houston

  Texas

  Adjunct Instructor

  Texas Southern University

  •\tDeveloped rubrics for grading and evaluating student coursework and exams\n•\tTutored and reviewed students in course material and the foundations of writing for history courses\n•\tDevised lesson plans and employed various instructional strategies for discussion section sessions \n•\tLectured during discussion section sessions\n•\tUsed educational technology including Blackboard

  Learnsmart

  and adapting other forms of visual and social media in order to communicate with students

  to provide them with access to forms of visual learning through media

  Teaching Assistant

  Houston

  Texas Area

  University of Houston

  •\tCollected research via several local archives and online research\n•\tConducted oral history interviews now archived at the University of Houston\n•\tWrote an article about the history of Houston’s Third Ward that served as materials for an academic presentation at Rice University

  Research Assistant

  Houston

  Texas Area

  University of Houston

  Center for Public History

  Member

  American Historical Association

  Member

  American Society for Environmental History