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PROFESSIONAL HISTORY

TEACHING ARTIST, CHAPTER 510

January 2020 - Present

  • Develop curriculum to create engaging, generative workshops to allow middle and high school students to create individual poems and collective fictional narratives during class

  • Foster a supportive environment through which students feel comfortable to be vulnerable in their writing and share their work with their peers

  • Participate in cultural sensitivity and pedagogical development trainings led by Studio Pathways

PROGRAM ASSOCIATE, CHAPTER 510

August 2019 - A

  • Assisted program staff at in-school writing programs within Westlake Middle, Franklin Elementary, and Hoover Elementary by serving as an on-site assistant in all creative writing workshops offered

  • Supported the Creative Director with internal and external communications, website content creation, and by working at the Dept. of Make / Believe retail store throughout the year

  • Creating social media campaigns to reach more young writers with our programs, founding Poetry Every Day in April on the Chapter 510 Instagram

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT INTERNSHIP, BAY AREA BOOK FESTIVAL

February 2019 - August 2020

  • Collaborated with the Community Liaison, Marketing Director, and Program Manager to help design and implement outreach strategies to bolster engagement and attendance

  • Managed and promoted the annual Young Author’s Writing Contest (YAWC), a writing contest open to all high school students in the Bay Area

  • Judged and edited the submissions to the Young Author’s Writing Contest and the Graton Writing Project to compile students’ stories into a comprehensive anthology

SUBSIDIARY RIGHTS ASSISTANT, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS

August 2018 - August 2019

  • Worked in the Rights & Permissions Department to protect authors’ rights by engaging in various tasks (watermarking and protecting proof copies, directing translation queries, entering copyright information into databases, packaging and sending complimentary copies, etc.) that honor contracts

  • Maintained correspondence with various international subagents and communicated between various companies seeking translation rights

  • Assisted Rights & Permissions Department with daily clerical and administrative work including filing papers, making copies, and responding to emails

 
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EDUCATION

MASTER OF FINE ARTS, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY

July 2021 - July 2023

Low Residency MFA, with an emphasis on poetry

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GPA: N/A

BACHELOR OF ARTS, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY

August 2018 - May 2021

Undergraduate program, majoring in English Language & Literature, minoring in Creative Writing

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GPA: 3.94