Service

I actively engage in service within my department, my institution, the wider profession, and in my local community of Tkaronto (Toronto). These experiences in various spaces continue to inspire my academic and personal life and speak to my commitment to meaningful ongoing service. 

Service at the University of Toronto

Since starting my PhD at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), University of Toronto, I have served in groups, on committees, and in communities across the institution. Since 2018, I have been an advisory board member and co-ordinator at the Toronto Writing Project at the Centre for Urban Schooling at OISE, where I also co-run a monthly virtual creative writing workshop for educators across North America. For the academic year 2021 - 2022, I was a graduate student representative on the University of Toronto Libraries Student Advisory Committee. Within the Department of Curriculum, Learning, and Teaching, I co-founded and organized events and initiatives for the Arts in Education Graduate Student Group at OISE from 2021 - 2023. In supporting graduate students, I have been a Session Chair at OISE's annual Master of Teaching Research Conference and a Cohort Orientation Facilitator who welcomed students to the graduate program at the start of the academic year. For the 2023 - 2024 academic year, I was selected to be a member of the Community Engaged Learning research initiative at the Centre for Community Partnerships at the University of Toronto where, together with three other female PhD candidates at the University of Toronto, I completed a research project for Jean Augustine Centre for Young Women's Empowerment in Toronto.

Service to the Profession

Through membership in professional organizations, I actively engage in service. Since 2020, I have served as committee liaison and organizer of the Qualitative Research SIG Graduate Student Committee with the American Educational Research Association (AERA). I am a reviewer for English Journal and Journal of Language & Literacy Education. I also review submissions for the annual Literacy Research Association (LRA) Conference. I am on the Writers Council with the National Writing Project (NWP), where I connect with teachers and students and contribute to programming and web content. In 2023, I was a fellow at the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) and the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property at American University’s Washington College of Law, where I co-developed case studies and exemplars of professional development materials for creating better Open Educational Resources (OERs) and navigating best practices in Fair Use/ Fair Dealing in English Langauge Arts. This work was done alongside a diverse, dedicated group of K-12 educators and librarians, education scholars, and instructional designers across the United States.