An executive summary of ALM’s professional and administrative experience.

Please use the links below to navigate to corresponding administrative roles and responsibilities.

Budgeting and Administration | Strategic Planning | Transferable Writing, Interdepartmental Course Design, and Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration | Recruitment, Education, Training, and Assessment | Event Planning | Student Services, Mentorship, and Support

For ALM’s experience teaching and tutoring writing, see the links below.

•	The professional experience linked above and listed below has equipped me to found and run a pro-bono virtual writing center. Read more about it here.
•	Review my teaching record here.
•	Read my teaching philosophy here.
•	View a sample of writing resources that I have created and developed here.

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Budgeting and Administration

Program Manager, Civic Humanist program, Rice University (2019-present)

• Liaise with high-level administrators in Humanities Research Center
• Coordinate and schedule programming with HISD educators and graduate fellows
• Run bimonthly virtual progress check-ins and presentation feedback to ensure timely completion of projects
• Manage ~$1,000 lunch budget for students’ visits to campus

Planning committee, English department symposium, Rice University (2016-2017)

• Coordinated with team of colleagues to plan weekend-long symposium
• Planned and coordinate with local vendors for team dinners (~$1,000 budget)
• Arranged for travel and accommodations for invited speaker and ensured invited speaker received honorarium fee
• Reviewed paper abstracts and organizing into coherent, themed panels
• Created, managed, and updated symposium website

Coordinator, Renaissance Reading Group, Rice University (2015-2016)

• Conferred with Rice faculty and students to schedule monthly meetings
• Planned agenda and distribute readings
• Managed $500 food/beverage budget across 6 meetings across academic year

Graduate Representative, English department, Rice University (2015-2016)

• Collaborated with departmental administrators to plan visit weekend for 10-12 prospective Ph.D. students
• Collaborated with local vendors to arrange for food/beverage on-campus delivery and off-campus meals during recruitment weekend
• Strategized invitations and attendance for various weekend recruitment events (i.e., arranged for certain graduate students to meet with prospective students based on research interests, faculty advisors, or subfield specialty)
• Arranged for prospective student transportation to/from campus over course of recruitment weekend
• Planned, implemented, and guided bus tour of campus and surrounding Houston neighborhoods during recruitment weekend
• Coordinated Q&A academic job panel with PhD candidates for prospective students
• Coordinated faculty availabilities and plan faculty research panel
• Fielded emails from prospective applicants about graduate life and research at Rice University
• Managed entertainment budget (~$1,000) for first-year programming during fall and spring semesters
• Managed food/beverage budget (~$2,000) across weekend-long recruitment programming

Office Administrator, Ninepoint Medical startup, Cambridge MA (2014)

• Arranged and confirmed travel and accommodations for 50+ team members to a trade show in Chicago
• Coordinated with VP of Marketing to plan, budget, and implement team dinners and cocktail receptions (~$10,000)
• Ordered, prepared, and shippedoffice supplies for week-long booth setup at trade show
• Oversaw, tracked, and confirmed shipment and receipt of proprietary medical devices across state lines
• Assisted Clinical Project Manager with sorting, organizing, and codingdata analysis (primarily through MS Excel)
• Managed daily operations and logistics of functioning office

Strategic Planning

Program Manager, Civic Humanist program, Rice University (2019-present)

• Survey and assess interest in virtual format of CH program during COVID-19 disruptions
• Consult with HISD educators on their curricular needs and plans for the 2020-2021 academic year
• Oversee transition from face-to-face program to remote-based format, including:
  • Attending intensive webinars on best practices for teaching and enhancing learning in remote settings
  • Translating best practices to team of graduate student fellows for successful implementation of virtual CH programming
  • Training graduate fellows in new learning technologies
  • Providing feedback on fellows’ asynchronous materials (i.e., slide presentation, visual communication, independent student activities) and synchronous lesson plans (i.e., live student participation, warm-up activities, and prompts for further consideration/discussion)
• Manage rollout schedule of new remote material to meet HISD collaborators’ needs in timely fashion
• Apprise senior-level administrators in Humanities Research Center of program’s strategic mission and goals for academic year

Secretary, Humanities Graduate Student Association, Rice University (2016-2017)

• Worked collaboratively with rest of executive HGSA leadership to strategically plan and successfully implement three major campus-wide initiatives affecting Rice humanities graduate students:
  • Surveying and assessing ABD graduate student needs for on-campus workspace using Qualtrics survey software
  • Petitioning for official administrative policy change regarding on-campus cubicle workspaces to senior administrative officials, including Vice President for Administration and Interim Associate Dean of Humanities
  • Negotiating with graduate program directors to update grad-program handbooks to reflect new policy across School of Humanities
• Planned and implemented diverse-careers forum that included long-term networking and freelance opportunities for participants

Transferable Writing, Interdepartmental Course Design, and Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration

Instructor of record, Freshman Writing-Intensive program, Center for Academic and Professional Communications, Rice University (Fall 2019-present)

• Coordinated and tailored curriculum to align specifically with FWIS program department objectives and outcomes
• Designed Teaching for Transfer-style learning materials and assignments that students can use across disciplines and research backgrounds
• Planned and implemented 13 writing workshops throughout semester both in-class and outside class
• Developed assignments geared toward students with broad interests (e.g., assigned readings across a broad spectrum of genres: literature, poetry, cultural critique, features journalism, speeches, news reports, etc.)
• Met with each student one-on-one at least four times over course of semester for progress check-ins
• Prepared classes for evaluation by program administrators
• Designed eye-catchingcourse promotional materials to recruit Rice University freshmen to topics-based, writing-intensive seminar

Graduate fellow, Passionate Teaching in the Research Environment: How to Create Meaningful Online Learning Experiences, Virtual Graduate Student Seminar Residency, National Humanities Center (July 2020)

• Collaborated with interdisciplinary team of advanced graduate students to design, create, and present ArcGIS project that mapped social justice issues impacting local communities
• Actively participated in webinars and lectures that attended to students’ educational needs during COVID-19 disruption
• Learned and implemented new teaching technologies to implement for future remote-based learning courses

Instructor of record, Department of Modern and Classical Literatures and Cultures, Rice University (Fall 2018-Spring 2019)

• Designed innovative new course content and syllabus for advanced New Latin seminar
• Collaborated with tenured senior scholar in MCLC department to write course objectives and outcomes
• Developed cross-disciplinary rubrics to assess student writing and critical thinking for group of students with diverse majors, career goals, and interests
• Created hybrid teaching model with co-instructor by implementing inclusive teaching strategies and assessment criteria in traditionally hierarchical teaching setting
• Designed eye-catching course promotional materials to recruit advanced Rice University classics students

Active participation, engagement, and/or employment in cross-disciplinary roles

• Participant in OpEd Project, “Write to Change the World” virtual series (September 2020)
• Graduate fellow for interdisciplinary year-long Rice Seminar (2017-2018)
• Copyeditor for academic journal SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900

Recruitment, Education, Training, and Assessment

Program Manager, Civic Humanist program, Rice University (2019-present)

• Recruit new HISD educators and collaborators and maintain relationships with returning partners
  • Follow-up with past HISD collaborators to assess needs for future programming
  • Identify new partners by researching departments within individual HISD public schools (i.e., language arts, journalism, photography, history, social studies programs)
  • Network with current collaborators to assess direct curriculum needs, ensure alignment with curricular roles, and receive referrals for future programming
• Onboard graduate fellows to new, remote-learning format of CH program
  • Create Slack channel for inter-team communication
  • Orient fellows to CH programming Slack channel
  • Collaborate with senior HRC admins and IT office to setup MS Teams accounts for fellows
  • Ensure fellows’ compliance with university risk-management requirements (e.g., background checks, working with minors training) and FERPA guidelines
  • Meet one-on-one with fellows for monthly check-ins
• Educate and train graduate fellows on EdTech and office communication resources
  • Send clear instructions for upcoming deadlines arranged by priority with actionable, stepwise checklists (see an example of here)
  • Conduct de-hierarchized team meetings to train and develop fellows on various EdTech resources
  • Survey immediate and long-term needs of research and tech support for fellows’ curriculum development
  • Research and post useful resources and training videos to Slack channel
  • Share resources from NHC virtual residency
  • Train fellows on VoiceThread technology using share-screen function and provide ample time for questions, concerns, or additional context
• Assess asynchronous presentations and synchronous lesson plans and curriculum
  • Implement evidence-based pedagogical research to assess fellows’ presentation drafts (i.e., Writing Center and Universally Designed Learning best practices, Teaching for Transfer techniques, principles of backward design, etc.)
  • Ensure presentations meet basic accessibility requirements, including transcripts, closed captioning, and short curricular summaries for HISD educators
  • Comment on slide design and presentation using best practices for Visual Communication
  • Review and make final readiness decision on all curriculum content before public release

Event Planning

Job/Program Manager, Civic Humanist program, Rice University (2019-present)

• Coordinate between graduate fellows and HISD educators for CH programming
• Order and facilitate lunch deliveries from local vendors
• Collaborate with Moody Center for the Arts staff to schedule docent-led tours of campus art galleries
• Provide campus tours to visiting high school students
• Set up and shut down classroom technology (both virtual and in-person) Field any last-minute questions from fellows
• Introduce program purpose and fellows to students
• Manage and file receipts and invoices to HRC accounting software

Planning Committee, Sixth-Year Lecture Series, English department, Rice University (Fall 2019)

• Collaborate with program cohort to schedule date, time, and location for annual fellowship lecture series
• Gather paper titles, headshots, and accompanying media to create promotional fliers
• Hang and distribute fliers throughout English department office and classrooms
• Coordinate with grad program admin and draft content-specific promotional emails and reminders to distribute to two separate populations: current graduate students and English department faculty
• Set up and shut down technology, lighting, and AV in lecture hall 

Secretary, Humanities Graduate Student Association, Rice University (2016-2017)

• Created and implemented networking event on diverse careers
  • Executed budgeting, logistics, and room reservations for networking event
  • Arranged for career guidance expert to visit Rice University campus and give keynote address and workshop
  • Orchestrated honorarium payment, flights, and accommodations for keynote speaker
  • Oversaw day-of operations, including room selection and technology/AV setup
• Attended monthly HGSA meetings and strategized future events and receptions
  • Kept detailed minutes of meetings
  • Designed, created, and updated website
  • Worked closely with HGSA president to meet with campus administrators in order to implement major initiative: granting each student a dedicated space to work on campus
• Planned welcome back reception with HGSA President and Treasurer (~60 attendees, including faculty, graduate students, and interim dean)
  • Budgeted food and beverage allowance
  • Worked with School of Humanities administrators to book meeting space
  • Wrote and distributed broadcast emails to publicize event

Planning Committee, English department symposium, Rice University (2016-2017)

• Coordinated day-of logistics for weekend-long conference for group of ~50 attendees
• Scheduled large, off-campus dinner for keynote speaker and small group of graduate students
• Ensured campus and off-campus events stayed within confines of budget (~$2,000)
• Designed and executed media campaign to publicize conference around campus (i.e., posters, brochures, broadcast emails)
• Served as designer and webmaster for conference website and managed communications from visiting presenters

Office Administrator, Ninepoint Medical startup, Cambridge MA (2014)

• Staffed major weeklong industry tradeshow in Chicago, IL (50+ Ninepoint employees; 15,000+ total in attendance)
• Arranged out-of-state travel and accommodations for 50+ employees for tradeshow
• Planned and coordinated large team dinners, staff meetings, and customer cocktail receptions during tradeshow week
• Managed $10,000+ budget and accounts payable for large team dinners and customer cocktail receptions during tradeshow week
• Processed accounts payable receipts from tradeshow upon return to office
• Arrange and coordinate food and beverage refreshment for monthly investor meetings
• Arrange and coordinate food and beverage refreshment for monthly team lunches

Interim Development Communications Coordinator, Harvard Law School Alumni Center (Fall 2013)

• Staffed two major weekend-long Harvard Law School Reunions: Celebration 60: Women Transforming Our Communities and the World (attendance: 600+ alumnae)  and HLS Reunion 2013 (attendance: 750+ alumni)
• Built, edited, and distributed batch broadcast email reminders of events in preceding weeks
• Collated documents of important donors for HLS Dean and support staff
• Maintained website updates in weeks directly preceding events
• Moderated breakout panels and covered events for web and media promotion
• Copyedited and proofread various Development Office media and brochures

Student Services, Mentorship, and Support

Invited Guest, How to College: First Gen podcast, Houston, TX (upcoming project)

• Invited to guest on grassroots podcast about first-generation students’ college experiences (release date of episode TBD)

Pro Bono Writing Consultant, Self-Employed, Virtual Writing Center (January 2014-present)

• Mentor and support nontraditional applicants to graduate and professional programs
• Build confidence in clients through three-prong mentoring approach:
  • Apply Writing Center best practices, peer-tutoring techniques, and principles of backward design to create iterative writing activities that hone application materials
  • Assist clients in techniques to address and mitigate imposter syndrome by emphasizing narrative voice, unique perspective, and personal story
  • Teach project management strategies to divide the application process into short- and long-term goals and deadlines

Guest Editor, Shift Press, Institute of Engagement, Houston, TX (Fall 2020-present)

• Volunteer with Houston-area nonprofit that mentors local high school students to take responsible ownership of their communities
• Evaluate and select pitches from local high school students for Shift Press online publication
• Mentor high schoolers in their storytelling techniques and in developing narrative style
• Encourage young writers to take ownership of their ideas and narrative voice

Invited Speaker, Our Voices for Inclusive Classics Pedagogy, Columbia University (February 2020)

• Invited to give lecture at classics conference focusing on inclusive pedagogy, equity, access, and diversity in secondary and post-secondary education
• Lectured about inclusive pedagogical strategies for teaching exclusionary content (e.g., sexual violence in the college classroom) in the college classroom:
  • How to design inclusive, de-hierarchical discussion environment
  • How to use Teaching for Transfer techniques to combine traditional Latin education with topics related to social justice, inclusion, and the politics of reception studies  
  • How to leverage traditional research methods and classroom management techniques to discuss contemporary social and cultural issues in ancient texts