University Employment & Research

2020-present                 

Adjunct Lecturer, Building Foundations of Literacy, UG and GRD (Spring 2020-Blended; Fall 2020 Online) 

Department of Curriculum & Teaching, Hunter College School of Education

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2020-present

Research Assistant, CUNY-Initiative on Immigration and Education
PI: Dr. Tatyana Kleyn, Co-PIs: Dr. Ariana Mangual Figueroa, Dr. Nancy Stern

2019-present           

Presidential Research & Provost's Fellow

Office of the Registrar, The Graduate Center-CUNY

2019                 

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

Department of Special Education, Hunter College School of Education

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2017-2019            

Mellon Humanities Alliance Graduate Teaching Fellow, UG

Department of English, LaGuardia Community College-CUNY

• (Fall 2018, Spring 2019) Composition II-Writing Through Literature: “Black Lives Matter: Tracing the Literary Roots of Rage & Resistance”

• (Spring 2018) Composition II-Writing Through Literature: “Multilingual Voices”
   

2017                  

Adjunct Lecturer, Composition I, UG

Department of English, LaGuardia Community College-CUNY

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2017-2018            

Research Assistant, Study of Teacher Discursive Talk Moves in Facilitating Critical Conversations, funded by the Spencer Foundation. Principal Investigators: Dr. Melissa Schieble, Hunter College-CUNY & Dr. Amy Vetter, University of North Carolina-Greensboro

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2016-2017                  

Adjunct Lecturer, Developmental English 20, UG

Passaic County Community College

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2016-2017                  

Research Assistant, CUNY-New York State Initiative for Emergent Bilinguals

Research Institute for the Study of Language in Urban Society, CUNY

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2001-2002                  

Research Assistant & Teacher, The Urban Minorities Reading Project

University of Pennsylvania Department of Linguistics

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2001                           

Teaching & Residential Assistant, Dr. John Rickford

Sophomore College, Stanford University

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1999-2000                  

Research Assistant, Dr. Clayborne Carson

Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project, Stanford University

K-12 Employment

2020-present

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

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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                                                                                                                    

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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                                               

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2005-2007                  

Certified Teaching Assistant; Spanish Instructor; Student Advocate        

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

Other Professional Experience

2014-present             

Publisher & Editor                                                                                             

Dimonet Connect Publishing LLC, Brooklyn, NY

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Summer 2001            

Editorial Intern                                                                                                  

Education Update, Inc. ,New York, NY                               

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