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University Teaching Experience
(See here for student evaluations and observations) 

2022

Lecturer, The Rhetorics of Race, Inequality, Language, and Education, UNDERGRADUATE

Program in Writing and Rhetoric, Stanford University

  • Original Spring 2022 Syllabus

  • Taught two sections of 25 students/section for required first year writing & rhetoric sequence

  • Using an original syllabus, facilitated inclusive, culturally sustaining lessons, assessments, and all individual conferences

  • Student ratings of 4.55, 4.69, 4.77, and 4.69 out of 5.0 for quality of instruction

2020                 

Adjunct Lecturer, Building Foundations of Literacy, UNDERGRAD and GRADUATE

(Spring 2020-Blended; Fall 2020 Online) 

Department of Curriculum & Teaching, Hunter College School of Education

  • Syllabus

  • Taught one section per semester of ~25 students/section for required disciplinary literacy course for all majors in the school of education

  • Facilitated inclusive, culturally sustaining lessons and assessments

  • Student ratings of 6.67 and 6.22 out of 7.0 for treating all students in a respectful manner

  • Student ratings of 5.67/7.00 for interpreting difficult and abstract ideas

      

2019                 

Adjunct Lecturer, Teaching Reading to Students with Learning Disabilities, GRADUATE

Department of Special Education, Hunter College School of Education

2017-2019            

Mellon Humanities Alliance Graduate Teaching Fellow

Composition II-Writing Through Literature, UNDERGRAD

Department of English, LaGuardia Community College-CUNY

  • (Fall 2018, Spring 2019) “Black Lives Matter: Tracing the Literary Roots of Rage & Resistance”

  • (Spring 2018) "Multilingual Voices”

  • Taught two sections of ~25 students/section for required first year writing sequence

  • Using an original syllabus, facilitated inclusive, culturally sustaining lessons, assessments​

2017                  

Adjunct Lecturer, Composition I, UNDERGRAD

“Apples, Peaches, and Mangoes: Critical Perspectives on African-Descended Identity in New York City”

Department of English, LaGuardia Community College-CUNY

  • Original Spring 2017 Syllabus

  • Taught two sections of 23 students/section for required first year writing sequence

  • Using an original syllabus, facilitated inclusive, culturally sustaining lessons, assessments

  • Student ratings of 5/5 for respect for students and 4.6/5.0 for overall instruction

  • Rated ≥ 90th percentile in Assignments, Exams, and Grading (4.79/5.00) and Student Effort and Involvement (4.45/5.00)

2016-2017                  

Adjunct Lecturer, Developmental English 20, UNDERGRAD

Passaic County Community College

K-12 & Youth Development Employment

2020-2022

Inaugural Scholar in Residence
The Chapin School, New York, NY

2013-2016                  

NYC Teaching Fellow, Middle School Special Education Teacher, 7-8th grade                                      

New York City Department of Education (MS 246 Walt Whitman, Brooklyn, NY                                                     

                                     

2010-2013                  

Dean of Students; Secondary School Placement Coordinator                  

Harlem Academy, New York, NY                                                                                                                    

2008-2010                  

After School Site Coordinator, K-5th grade                                                                       

CAMBA Kids Succeed @ Beginning with Children Charter School, Brooklyn, NY                                            

      

2007-2008                  

Assistant Beacon Director; Test Prep Instructor                                           

CAMBA’s Beacon Center @ P.S. 269 (CAMBA, Inc.), Brooklyn, NY                                               

2005-2007                  

Certified Teaching Assistant; Spanish Instructor; Student Advocate        

Promise Academy Charter School (Harlem Children’s Zone, Inc.), New York, NY                                           

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