Resume

• 2017

  Board Member

  Society for the Study of Women Philosophers

• 2016

  Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities Forum - U. Missouri

• 2014

  Panel judge for annual national competition in which high school students are tasked with engaging in respectful discourse to arrive at solutions to complex ethical problems. Also volunteer to meet with local ethics bowl teams to offer insight into the competition.

  Missouri High School Ethics Bowl

  Desire2Learn

  Student Affairs

  Grant Writing

  Blackboard

  University Teaching

  Teaching

  Political Philosophy

  Research

  Higher Education

  Process Philosophy

  Book Indexing

  Political Science

  Eastern Philosophy

  History of Philosophy

  Academic Writing

  Philosophy

  Ethics

  Women's Studies

  Conference Planning

  Buddhism

  Conference Presentation: \"Our Jane and Gita-Yoga: Non-Gender Exclusiveness of the Bhagavad-Gita\"

  Conference Presentation: \"Our Jane and Gita-Yoga: Non-Gender Exclusiveness of the Bhagavad-Gita\"

  Conference Presentation: \"Saving the Data: The Alayavijnana of Yogacara Buddhism and Whitehead's Philosophy of Organism\"

  \"Threading the Needle: A Whiteheadian Assessment of Disruption\"

  Conference Presentation: \"Sometimes

  the Way to the Soul is Through the Gut: Confucius

  Aristotle and the Role of Empathy in Moral Comprehension\"

  \"Bound to Face the Truth: The Ethics of Using Wonder Woman's Lasso\"

  \"Re-Thinking the Matter: Organians are Still Organisms\"

  Conference Presentation: \"A Whiteheadian Approach to Education in the 21st Century\"

  Book discussion series engaging students

  faculty and staff: The Heroines of YA Fiction (several series

  2014)

  The Secret History of Wonder Woman (2015)

  Persepolis (2015).

• 2013

  Member

  International Institute for Field-Being

  Student: Ambima Bhuzyason

  Honored Faculty Member

  Alpha Chi Induction Ceremony

  Student: Alexandria Ward

  Honored Faculty Member

  Alpha Chi Induction Ceremony

  Student: Ryan Smith

  Honored Faculty Member

  Alpha Chi Induction Ceremony

  Student: Robert Sherman

  Founder and President

  Psychodaisies poetry and creative arts group

  1986-1990.\nEditor

  Hendrix College Potpourri literary magazine

  1989-90.

  BA

  Philosophy

  PhD

  Co-creator

  Padeia graduate student philosophy workshop.\nDepartment representative for recruiting activities.\n

  MA

• 2011

  Sessions: \"Ride at the Head of Your Troops on an Elephant

  \" \"But I Don't Think with My Ovaries

  \" \"Life Lessons Inside of History Lessons

  \" \"Women in the History of Philosophy\"

  Women's Leadership Conference - U. Missouri

  Annual lunch engaging students

  faculty and staff in discussing a topic central to the WHM theme. Created discussion materials. Guided Philosophy Club members and alumni in leading break-out discussions.

• 2006

  Member

  Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy

• 2004

  Revived and expanded the annual luncheon to bring student award recipients in conversation with their benefactors and department chairs.

  Columbia College Annual Undergraduate Philosophy Conference

  Founded the conference series in 2012

  which has been attended by undergraduates from around the country. Taught students how to ask for institutional funding

  work with college events and PR personnel

  conduct blind peer review of paper submissions

  and host visiting scholars. Secured annual keynote speaker from diverse areas within philosophy. Managed logistics in concert with CC Events office. Hosted post-conference reception in my home.

  Johnson-Moxley

  Melanie

  Philosophy Documentation Center

  Columbia College

• 2000

  Office of Advancement

  College of Arts & Science

  U. Missouri

  La Di Da Children's Boutique

  University of Missouri

  University of Missouri

  University of Missouri-Columbia

  School of Medicine

  Columbia

  Missouri

  Provided support to four executive directors in coordinating and implementing the development activities for the largest and most diverse academic school at the university. Developed excellent working understanding of higher-education development programs

  as well as proficiency in retrieving

  interpreting and presenting development data. Created unit annual report (including budget). Coordinated biannual strategic development board meeting. Assisted in the hiring of development officers

  supervised support staff and students. Revived and expanded annual endowed scholarship luncheon. Coordinated fundraising campaign for endowed philosophy scholarship and associated retirement event.

  Executive Staff Assistant

  Office of Advancement

  College of Arts & Science

  U. Missouri

  University of Missouri-Columbia

  School of Medicine

  University of Missouri

  Columbia

  Missouri

  (1) Teach undergraduate courses in introduction to philosophy

  introduction to ethics

  logic and reasoning

  existentialism

  medical ethics and others for the Department of Philosophy

  College of Arts and Science. (2) Teach online graduate courses in health ethics theory and health care ethics for the Department of Health Management and Informatics

  School of Medicine.

  Philosophy Lecturer

  Columbia

  Missouri Area

  Managed day-to-day operations of the single-owner business

  including staffing

  scheduling

  expense payments

  social media communications

  sales events

  etc. Planned and executed cost-saving measures. Organized paperwork and data

  conducted first full inventory. Instituted processes for receiving and processing inventory. Cleaned and organized every square physical inch of the space. Attended buyer's market in Chicago with store owner to plan and execute seasonal purchases. Assisted in sale of the business

  Store Manager

  La Di Da Children's Boutique

  Columbia

  Missouri

  Visiting Assistant Professor 2011-13. Day campus adjunct instructor 2008-11

  2013-present. Online campus course developer and instructor 2013-16. \n\nTeach in-seat undergraduate courses in Western philosophy

  Asian philosophies & religions

  logic & critical thinking

  ethics

  religion & human experience

  ancient philosophy

  modernism

  classical political philosophy

  seminar in A. N. Whitehead

  Women in English Modernism. Mentored students completing Distinction projects in philosophy. \n\nAdvised Columbia College Philosophy Club 2010-17. Created and facilitated annual undergraduate philosophy conference 2012-15. Women's History Month Committee member 2011-17. Co-advised Columbia College Peace Club 2011-12. Co-creator

  feminist reading series 2014-15. Member of Provost's Quality of Adjunct Life Task Force (2016)

  teaching excellence group (2015-16).

  Philosophy Lecturer & Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy

  Columbia College

  Philosophy Documentation Center

  Philosophy Lecturer

  University of Missouri

  American Philosophical Association

  Member