• NEXT Library Emerging Leader Travel Fellowship, ALA & US Department of State and American Embassy Berlin, Germany, Sept. 2018
• Key Contributor, Hartford Teen Pregnancy Prevention Initiative, May 2018
• 21st Century Librarian Award, University of Washington, 2015

FUNDING & GRANTS

• 2022 – Upper Albany Neighborhood Collaborative grant ($4,000)
• 2021 – State of CT Youth Violence Prevention Initiative program grant ($5,000)
• 2020 – State of CT Youth Violence Prevention Initiative program grant ($15,000)
• 2018 – ALA Great Stories Club – “Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation” program grant ($1,500)
• 2016 – YALSA Symposium – “Pitch an Idea” program grant ($1,500)

• Commissioner, City of Hartford Cultural Affairs Commission | active
• Board Member, Windsor Art Center | May 2023 to present
• Chaffee House Exploratory Committee, Windsor Historical Society | 2022
• Department Heads & Supervisors Co-chair, Connecticut Library Consortium | 2020 – 2023
• Lead Contributor, YOUmedia Network Community of Practice | Sept. 2017 to Sept. 2018
• Social Justice Roundtable Co-chair, Connecticut Library Consortium | Aug. to Oct. 2017
• Steering Committee Member, Hartford Decides | 2016
• Facilitator, National Conference for Community and Justice | 2016 to 2018
• Student Representative, MLIS Program Committee | Sept. 2014 to April 2015
• Student Liaison, Information Diversity Committee | Sept. 2013 to June 2015
• Information Diversity Ambassador, Office of Diversity Programs | Sept. 2013 to June2015
• iEquality President, Student Organization | Jan. 2013 to April 2015
• Cataloging Volunteer, Seattle Art Museum | Sept. 2012 – May 2014

• • Professional Development Facilitator, Wallingford Public Library, June 2021
    • Using the Relationships-First Model to Improve Library Services for Young Adult
  • Professional Development Facilitator, Simsbury Public Library, June 2021
    • Using the Relationships-First Model to Improve Library Services for Adults
  • Queer Academy Research Instructor, YOUmedia Hartford, Summer 2016

• Rhode Island Library Association Conference, May 2022
• Presentation Invitation: CORI Sponsored Session: Transforming & Restoring Libraries into Spaces of Belonging
  
• The Free Black Women’s Library Reading Challenge Roundtable, Feb. 2022
• Connecticut Library Association EDI Committee Workshop, Dec. 2020
• Panel Invitation: Advancing the Conversation: Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in CT Libraries
• NELA Virtual Conference, Sept. 2020
• Panel Invitation: It Starts with Us – Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Libraries
• SLJ Live Webinar: Teen Activism in the Library, August 2018
• Panel Invitation: Follow-up to YALSA President’s Program
• American Library Association Annual Conference, June 2018
• Panel Invitation: YALSA President’s Program: Supporting Youth Activism in Your Library
• Connecticut Library Association Mini-Conference, March 2018
• Panel Invitation: Talking about Diversity in Books for Children & Teens
• Hartford Stage & Hartford Public Library Special Event, Jan. 2018
• Panel Invitation: The Evolution of the Public Library: Growing and Thriving as Vital Community Hubs
• Connecticut Young Adult Librarian Annual Meet-Up, Nov. 2017
• Presentation Invitation: From Socializing to Social Justice Redux, co-presenter
• Young Adult Library Services Association Symposium, Nov. 2016
• Presentation: From Socializing to Social Justice: Connecting teens to community through social narrative, (links to PDF) co- presenter
• Praxis Conference on Multilingual Student Learning, May 2015
• Presentation: Effective Assignment Design: Best Practices for Promoting Student Learning and Preventing Plagiarism, co-presenter

• Feature: Instruction and Pedagogy for Youth in Public Libraries, 2018
• Spotlight interview, Chapter 6, From theory to practice: instructional approaches
• ALA Publication, Create, Innovate, and Serve: A Radical Approach to Children’s and Youth Programming
• Chapter 23. Invited to contribute a chapter on teen program development (Strong Girls & Woke Teens Forum) at Hartford Public Library
• Incluseum’s New Metadata Schema: Inclusive Controlled Vocabulary for Tagging, 2015
• Cited: Reviving and Publishing the Tagging Schema for Civic Discourse in Museums and Libraries Project, 2017
• Feature: Project READY Module 22: Transforming Library Instruction

Module 22: Transforming Library Instruction (2018)

• Branch Manager, Windsor Public Library, Wilson Branch – January 2019 to present
• EDI Consultant Search Committee Member
• Employee Engagement Team Member
• Windsor Hunger Action Team Member
• YOUmedia Manager & Teen Services Librarian, Hartford Public Library – June 2015 to Jan. 2019
• Promotion to manager, January 2017
• Reference & Instruction Graduate Specialist, University of Washington Odegaard Undergraduate Library – Sept. 2014 to May 2015
• Consulting Research & Metadata Contributor, incluseum.org – Sept. 2014 to Dec. 2016
• Museum Seminar (MuSe) Intern (links to PDF), Metropolitan Museum of Art – June 2014 to Aug. 2014
• Access Services Graduate Assistant, University of Washington Odegaard Undergraduate Library – Sept. 2013 to May 2014
• Circulation Assistant II, Prosser Public Library – Sept. 2005 to Aug. 2011