Research Positions

UCSB Center for Film, Television and New Media (CFTNM). Graduate Research Assistant , Fall 2006-Summer 2009. Creator and Director, GreenScreen Environmental Media Production Program, Spring 2007-Spring 2008; Assistant Director, Spring 2008-Spring 2009

UCSB Center for Information, Technology and Society (CITS). Graduate Student Researcher. Global Cultures in Transition (GCIT) research initiative. 2008-2009.

Transliteracies Project. Graduate Student Researcher. Winter 2007-Winter 2008. Produced research reports on various new media topics. Participated in the New Reading Interfaces working group.

National Science Foundation Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT). Research Fellowship recipient for work on Minotour: A Mobile Wiki Project. Spring 06-Summer 07.

Graduate Emphases

Center for Information, Technology and Society (CITS) - earned emphasis in Technology and Society.

Department of Global Studies - earned emphasis in Global Studies.

Organizing

Co-organizer, Signal Traffic Workship, Fall 2010.

Organizer, Water Screening Series (six films), Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, Spring 2010.

Co-organizer, Media Fields 2: Infrastructures, Graduate Student Conference, Spring 2009.

Co-convener, Environmental Media Research Focus Group, AY2007-08, AY2008-09.

Co-organizer, Media Fields Graduate Student Conference, Spring 2007.

Academic

B.A. Cinema Television (Critical Studies) & English (Creative Writing), received May 2005 (magna cum laude).
w. honors in English: completed honors track and senior thesis.
Resident Honors Program: skipped senior year of HS, attended USC a year early.
Thematic Option: honors alternative to general education.

Summer Programs

Labyrinth Project: participated in integrated theory/practice course in interactive narrative, student researcher.
International Summer School Program at Cambridge University, Studies in English Literature.

Work Experience

Interactive Media Division: student assistant.
USC Davidson Conference Center: worked in conference and event planning.

Service

USC Helenes: community service organization serving the south central Los Angeles area.
Development intern at the Task Force.