Work Experience

Assistant Lecturer, USC Annenberg School of Communication (2021 – Present)

• COMM 400: Progress in Work: Navigating Power, Difference, and Culture in Careers

  • • • Highly-competitive opportunity—selected by administration to design and offer own 400-level course on a chosen topic.

      • Course description: Examines power issues and intersectionality in professional cultures and organizations. Creates space for students to anticipate power dynamics in future careers and learn to identify and cope with these forces in real-life work cultures.

• COMM 204: Public Speaking

  • • • Note: Given this competitive opportunity as the stand-alone instructor of an undergraduate course at USC after receiving positive Teaching Assistant evaluations.

      • Course description: Principles and practices of effective oral communication; analysis of the speaking-listening process; selection and organization of speech materials; use of new presentation technologies.

Teaching Assistant, USC Annenberg School of Communication (2018 – 2021)

• • • COMM 552 (PhD Seminar): Qualitative Research Methods in Communication

      • • • Note: Was given this highly-regarded assignment 3 years in a row: 2018, 2019, 2020

          • Course description: Developing expertise in qualitative methods, including participant-observation, ethnography, discourse analysis and historiography in communication research.

    • COMM 200: Communication and Social Science

      • • • Course description: Social scientific inquiry into human communication; core theories of message production and reception in interpersonal, group and organizational contexts.

    • COMM 383m: Sports, Communication, and Culture

      • • • Course description: Rhetorical and critical approaches to sports and public discourse; application to sports organizations, the news and popular media; representations of gender and race in sports.

    • COMM 396g: Fashion, Media, & Culture

      • • • Course description: Fashion as a form of communication and culture; fashion's role in identity, body politics, art, nationhood, celebrity and Hollywood culture, youth cultures and subversive practices.

Consultant, USC Writing Center (2020 – Present)

• Consult undergraduate and graduate students on papers, coach long-term writing strategies, and work on topics related to critical thinking and argumentation.

• Sensitive to nuances of international and ESL students; consult students to nurture writing skills.

• Assist with career-oriented materials such as personal statements, cover letters, and resumes.

Research Assistant, USC Annenberg School of Communication

• Assistant Editor, International Journal of Communication/USC Annenberg Press (Fall 2019).

  • • • Served as an assistant editor to the top-ranked journal; read/evaluated submitted articles, advised editor whether articles should advance.
        

• Research Assistant, Annenberg Research Network on International Communication (ARNIC) and the Connecting Skid Row Research Project, which analyzed internet and mobile phone use among unhoused populations in Los Angeles. (Fall 2018 – Spring 2019).

President, Annenberg School of Communication Graduate Student Association, University of Southern California (2019-2020).

• Elected by peers, served as a liaison for 90+ PhD students and faculty, including the Director of the Annenberg School of Communication.

• Oversaw and managed executive team of board members; planned and facilitated regular meetings.

PhD Student Representative, Long-Range Planning Committee, Annenberg School of Communication, Doctoral Program. (2019-2020).

• Participated in regular meetings with senior faculty members, including Director of Annenberg School of Communication and Director of Graduate Studies.

• Forecasted needs for faculty hiring and course offerings, surveyed faculty and students, discussed issues pertinent to future of program.

Communication Studies Student Advisor to the Dean of College and Arts and Sciences, University of Portland. (2013-2014).

• Nominated by Communication Studies faculty to serve as on a committee that provided student perspectives to the Dean of College of Arts and Sciences.

Strategist — Kinesis Marketing Firm
Portland, OR. (2015-2017)

• Consulted business owners on strategies to improve organizational culture and grow their companies.

• Conducted industry research to form recommendations for market differentiation.

• Worked as a copywriter and copyeditor; created content for multiple industries.

Marketing Communications Coordinator — Kaiser Permanente
Portland, OR. (2014-2015)

• • Cultivated and implemented business development projects that impacted region.

  • Led a team of senior regional directors to implement charitable programs.

  • Enhanced digital presence through the website development, content creation, and maintenance.

Communications/Publications Intern; Freelance Writer — Oregon Humanities
Portland, OR. (2014)

• Worked directly with editor of Oregon Humanities magazine on the spring issue—was asked to continue writing freelance after internship ended due to quality of work.

• Planned events and projects such as the Conversation Project, which brings people in Oregon together to talk—across differences, beliefs, and backgrounds—about ideas.