PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

Norfolk Public Libraries - Library Associate I 

September 2024 - Present

         ● Adult program design and implementation

         ● Materials acquisition and cataloging

         ● Technology instruction

 

Norfolk Public Libraries - Library Assistant II

October 2023 - September 2024

         ● Cataloging Knowledge: RDA, DACS, MARC

         ● Educational Technologies

         ● Youth Programming and Curriculum Design

         ● Adult Program Design

         ● Strong interpersonal and human services skills

 

Navy Exchange Command - NEX Dam Neck

June 2023 - October 2023

        ● Familiarity with federal government records-keeping software

        ● Familiarity with government facilities, policies and procedures

 

Currituck County High School — English Teacher

August 2013 - June 2023

       ● Instructor: English Language Arts (grade eleven & twelve)

       ● Instructor: Advanced Placement English Language and Composition

       ● Instructor: Advanced Placement English Literature

       ● Instructor: Advanced Placement Capstone Seminar

       ● School Improvement Team (2016-2023)

       ● ELA Department Chairperson (2016-2023)

                  ● A.I.G. Certification

                  ● Harvard/Bok Center Fellowship

                  ● North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching Fellowship

                                1) Bringing Boys to Books

                               2) Information Literacy for Secondary Classrooms

                  ● Folger Shakespeare Library Fellowship

                  ● Duke-UNC Cultural Teaching Fellowship

 

Family Caregiver — for maternal grandmother

January 2013 - August 2013

      ● Home and healthcare support ○ C.R.E.S.T. syndrome

      ● Caregiver from time of bed-bound until decease

      ● Patient Advocate

 

Chaplain - Emory University Center for Pastoral Care and Counseling

June 2010 - January 2013

      ● In-hospital emotional and spiritual support for patients, loved-ones, and staff

      ● Communications liaison between care teams

      ● ACPE - CPE 1

 

 

EDUCATION

 

Syracuse University, ISchool - M.L.I.S.

June 2023 - Present

          Advisor: Dr. Megan Oakleaf 

 

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING - Library of Virginia - professional education - Cataloging Pathway - RDA, BIBFRAME, AACR2 - Library Management Course - Crisis Communication Course - Public Librarianship Course - School Librarianship Course - Library Technology Planning Course

 

Emory University, Candler School — M.Div.Ethics

     August 2009 - January 2013

          Advisors: Dr. David S. Pacini; Dr. Ellen Ott Marshall

 

Thesis: "Faith on the Fringe: Exploring the Nexus of New-Age Evangelicalism and Extremism"

Emory Medal for achievement in social betterment

 

Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC — B.S.Ed Minor: Philosophy; Minor: Music

August 2004 - August 2009

Advisor: Dr. Catherine Carter; Dr. Darel Hale

Honors Thesis: "Golden Sorrows: The Paradox of Wealth and Tragedy in F. Scott Fitzgerald's Oeuvre"

 

 

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

American Library Association

     - LEARN Round Table - New Member Round Table

     - Public Library Association

     - Rainbow Round Table

     - UNITED: United For Libraries

Virginia Library Association

North Carolina Association of Educators

     - Currituck Co. Chapter President (2017 - 2023)

North Carolina English Teacher’s Association

National Council of Teachers of English

Kappa Delta Pi - International Honor Society in Education

The National English Honor Society - Chapter Founder, Faculty Advisor

Sigma Tau Delta English Honor Society - lifetime member

Pi Gamma Mu International Honor Society in Social Sciences - lifetime member

Phi Sigma Pi National Academic Honor Fraternity

 

SKILL SETS

Materials Cataloging - government collections, Navy Exchange Command; Jacquiline Bullock, instructor

Database Construction and Management - public libraries, high school libraries; Arden Kirkland, instructor

Library Collections Development - Jill Hurst Whal, instructor

Information Resource Organization and Access - Rachel Ivy Clarke, instructor 

Library Accessibility Services - J.J. Pionke, instructor

Reference Librarianship - supervisors/instructors - Dr. Megan Oakleaf; Mrs. Amanda Albert (MUSC).

Teaching & Pedagogy:

     - Student Counseling: academic [NCDPI]

     - Academic Management of Students / Secondary [NCDPI]

     - Team Building and Direction - academic teams; A.P. Cohorts; special competition teams [Boston College] 

Academically and Intellectually Gifted Education - honors, A.P., and college-level programs

Curriculum and Instructional Design [Friday Institute] - U.D.L.; sensory-friendly; military-student friendly

Programming Languages: JavaScript, Lua, Ruby, Python, Scratch, HTML/CSS

Conflict Transformation and Mediation - instructors Dr. Ellen Ott Marshal (Emory University), Barbara Smith (Carter Center).

 

PROFESSIONAL LEARNING ACTIVITIES

• May 2024 - Dementia Friendly Libraries Training - Library of Virginia 

• March 2024 - Library of Virginia:

  • cataloging pathway (complete course)

  • digital librarianship (complete course)

  • library management pathway (complete course)

• September 2023 - Reference Portfolio Review and Evaluation (Syracuse University - I School)

  • Dr. Megan Oakleaf, Professor of Information and Library Sciences; Mrs. Amanda Albert, Chief Reference Librarian, Medical University of South Carolina - Reference Librarianship - full credit, plus notable accolades - first place out of twenty-seven participants - Received academic credit (A+ plus letter of commendation)

• July 2023 - Information Literacy Refresher Course - University of North Carolina School of Information and Library Science

• June 2023 - Advanced Placement Exam Reading and Scoring - Free Response Essay Question 2 - argument essay

• February 2023 - Collaboration with poet Tyree Daye: teaching and workshop collaboration for A.P. English students.

• January 2023 - Collaboration with Dr. Kaitlyn Berrnier of the New York Public Library System with A.P. Research students.

• August 2022 - Albemarle Tech Fest - presenter - New Education Apps to Help Teach Writing

• July 2022 - UNC-Chapel Hill - Programming for classroom teachers (computer programming, basics) - Scratch & Lua

• June 2022 - Advanced Placement Reading and Scoring - 2022 A.P. Language and Composition Exam, essay component -

• November 2021 - National Council of Teachers of English: Co-Presenter - Louisville, KY - Teaching Living Poets -

• July 2020: Advanced Placement Summer Institute in A.P. Capstone - Boston College / Bridgewater State University

• June 2020: North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching - Reading, Writing and Reflecting for the Classroom Teacher

• September 2019: North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching - Reaching Reluctant Readers: Bringing Boys to Books

• August 2019: National English Honor Society - New Chapter, founding faculty [Knights Chapter]

• July 2019: Advanced Placement Summer Institute in A.P. Language and Composition - College of William and Mary

• June 2019: Duke-U.N.C. Consortium for the Study of Africa and the Middle East - Teaching Fellow

• March 2019: North Carolina English Teachers Association - Presenter: Best Practices in A.I.G. Writing Instruction

• December 2018: Library of Congress Teachers Academy

• August 2018: Folger Shakespeare Library Teachers Workshop - Blood will Have Blood - Macbeth & Hamlet in the classroom

• July 2018: Associated Press Teachers Conference - Using News in the ELA Classroom

• June 2018: Emerson Teachers Fellowship - Emerson College - Transcendentalism and American Literary Foundations

• December 2017: Wake Forest University: History Intensive - North Carolina’s Moravian History

• August 2017: N.C. State - Moise A. Khayrallah Center - Educator’s fellowship on film project Cedars in the Pines.

• July 2017: Western Carolina University - Mountain Heritage Center: teaching in Appalachian North Carolina

• June 2017: The Friday Institute - Teaching with Poverty In Mind

• August 2016: U.N.C. Wilmington - Summer Teachers Institute - Understanding and Teaching Marine Habitats

• July 2016: Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools: Teachers Academies - Secondary Writing Program

• June 2016: Harvard Bok Center - Design Thinking Workshop

• November 2015: North Carolina Museum of Art -Teachers’ Workshops: - visual arts and poetry

• July 2014: King Center, Atlanta GA - Nonviolent Means of Social Change

• June 2014: The Carter Center - Conflict Transformation and Restorative Justic