Resume

• 2016

  Master of Science - MS

  Online Education (summa cum laude)

  Wilkes University

• 2012

  McHenry County College

  Crystal Lake

  IL

  Teach face-to-face

  blended

  and online courses in writing and literature\nGranted tenure: August 2015\n\nInstruction:\n• ENG 105: Technical Communications\n• ENG 095: Introduction to College Writing\n• ENG 151: Composition I\n• ENG 152: Composition II \t\n• ENG 250: Creative Writing \n• ENG 252: Studies in Literature \n\nService & Presentations:\n• ISCC Skyway Writers Competition and Festival Representative

  2017-Present\n• Academic Competencies Ad Hoc Committee Member

  2016-Present\n• Composition II Portfolio Assessment Reader

  2016-Present\n• Meditation Club Advisor

  2015-Present\n• Curriculum Development & Review Committee Member

  2014-Present \n• Student Appeals Board Member

  2013-Present \n• Developmental English & Reading Portfolio Assessment Reader

  2013-Present\n• Developmental English & Reading Subcommittee Member

  2012-Present \n• AAS Degree General Education Requirements Ad Hoc Committee Member

  2016\n• Alternative Spring Break Faculty Volunteer

  2014\n• CCSSE Ad Hoc Committee Member

  2014\n• Banned Books Week Presenter/Lunch & Learn Panel Facilitator

  2014\n• English Educators Workshop Participant

  2013-2015\n• Literature Portfolio Assessment Reader

  2013-2014\n• Student Placement

  Advising & Support Standing Committee Member

  2013-2014\n• Banned Books Week Parliamentary Censorship Debate Adjudicator

  Professor

  Department of English

  Chicago

  IL

  Testing and Assessment/Support Services Manager

  Literacy Chicago

  Chicago

  IL

  Adjunct Faculty: English as a Second Language

  Illinois Institute of Technology

  Chicago

  IL

  Full-Time Faculty: English & Freshman Studies

  Westwood College

  Chicago

  IL

  Lead Employment Specialist/Job Readiness Instructor

  Lakefront Supportive Housing

• 2002

  Master of Arts - MA

  Writing Theory and Pedagogy (with Distinction)

  DePaul University

• 1995

  Bachelor of Arts - BA

  English

  Theatre

  Secondary Education (cum laude)

  Ripon College

• Adult Education

  Higher Education

  Editing

  Teaching

  Curriculum Design

  Classroom

  Curriculum Development

  Tutoring

  Public Speaking

  Nordgren

  Starr

  Nordgren

  Illinois Institute of Technology

  Lakefront Supportive Housing

  Westwood College

  McHenry County College

  Pyramid Career Institute

  Literacy Chicago

  Harry S. Truman College

  Self-Employed

  Chicago

  IL

  Recent work includes:\n• owner/head writer at Chicago foodie girl (food + travel blog)\n• resumes

  curriculum vitae

  and cover letters (creation of original documents and/or updates)\n• dissertations and grant proposals (editing/revising)\n• correlating of National Geographic School Publishing materials (English

  Math

  Science

  Social Studies) to national

  state

  and local school districts'​ standards\n

  Freelance Writer/Editor/Correlator

  Self-Employed

  Chicago

  IL

  Pyramid Career Institute

  Adjunct Faculty: English

  Chicago

  IL

  Harry S. Truman College