Literacy Department
Co-chair
10th Annual SUNY Cortland Literacy Department Conference, “F(read)om Dreaming: Literacy, Justice, and the Radical Power of Voice”
2025–2026
Service and community
Service
Service to the Literacy Department, the School of Education, the college, professional associations, and the Cortland County community.
Leadership roles
Literacy Department
Chair
Community Building and Partnerships Committee
2023–present
Profession
Chair
Early Career Award Voting Committee, Narrative Research SIG, American Educational Research Association (AERA)
2025
Profession
Social Media Liaison
Semiotics in Education SIG (SIG 110), AERA
2025–2027
Community, Cortland County
Founder
Crown Table, a grassroots, community-based network in Cortland County (Crown Table Feast and Crown Table Toy Swap)
2025–present
Community spotlight
Crown Table
In 2025 I founded and developed Crown Table, a grassroots, community-based network. Its events seek to fill gaps in Cortland County residents' access to food and other material conditions. The first Crown Table Feast, held in November 2025, served a free meal to 41 guests and gave out 40 grocery gift cards, with support from Cortland ReUse, the Ake Gallery, the Cortland Mutual Aid Group, Main Street Farms, and several local businesses. Crown Table has also hosted a community toy swap at the Ake Gallery.
“We could become each other's keeper rather than waiting on someone else.”
Full service record
Literacy Department
- Co-chair 10th Annual SUNY Cortland Literacy Department Conference, “F(read)om Dreaming: Literacy, Justice, and the Radical Power of Voice” 2025–2026
- Chair Community Building and Partnerships Committee 2023–present
- Read-alouds Developed and conducted two read-alouds for Cortland daycare students 2024, 2025
- Department liaison NYSED Science of Reading Educator Preparation Program, Community of Practice 2025–present
- Member LIT 371 Science of Reading Planning Committee 2025
- Member Practicum Subcommittee
- Member Position Statement Subcommittee 2023–2024
School of Education
- Member Scholarship Committee 2023–present
- Member C.U.R.E. Scholarship Committee 2025, 2026
- Member Data Retreat partnerships 2024, 2025
- Member Summer Online Teaching Group (professional learning community) 2025
College
- Voting member Education Policy Committee 2025–2027
- Board member Sophia's Garden, an interdisciplinary initiative that supports children's philosophical thinking
- Member Outstanding Writing Committee 2025
- Member Curriculum Writing Committee 2024–2025
Profession
- Chair Early Career Award Voting Committee, Narrative Research SIG, American Educational Research Association (AERA) 2025
- Social Media Liaison Semiotics in Education SIG (SIG 110), AERA 2025–2027
- Reviewer Semiotics in Education: Signs, Meanings and Multimodality SIG, AERA 2025
- Award reviewer Outstanding Dissertation Award Committee, Narrative Research SIG, AERA 2024
- Journal article reviewer The Language and Literacy Spectrum 2024
- Invited article reviewer Journal of Infrastructure, Policy & Development 2024
- Graduate student reviewer The American Reading Forum 2024
- Invited book proposal reviewer Igniting Adolescent Writing with Mentor Texts 2024
- Invited chapter reviewer Rape Culture and Youth Texts 2024
Community, Cortland County
- Founder Crown Table, a grassroots, community-based network in Cortland County (Crown Table Feast and Crown Table Toy Swap) 2025–present
- Board of Directors; Mutual Aid Committee member Cortland ReUse 2025
- Consultant AmeriCU youth project 2024
Community, Bloomington, Indiana
- Volunteer Boys & Girls Club 2017–2022
- Volunteer Bloomington Housing Authority, Resident Council 2017–2020
- Panel member New Student Orientation, Department of Curriculum and Instruction / Literacy, Culture, and Language Education, Indiana University 2020
- Volunteer Transana methodology review and workshops for updated data management software 2018
- Volunteer Youth Services Bureau 2017–2018