I am an Assistant Professor of Communication at the State University of New York College at Geneseo; a public liberal campus in Western New York. Within my position at Geneseo, I oversee the Diversity & Inclusion Community Educators (DICE) program, a student-led initiative under the Office of Diversity and Equity.

I recently earned my doctorate in Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development with an emphasis in Comparative and International Development Education from the University of Minnesota- Twin Cities.

As a traveling scholar through the Big 10 Alliance,  I enrolled in African Studies courses at Rutgers University, University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign, and Indiana University after being awarded a FLAS Fellowship for Swahili. Other awards include a Diversity Predoctoral Teaching Fellowship to the University of Minnesota-Morris, a research grant from the CIES Study Abroad and International Student SIG, and Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship.

Broadly speaking, I am curious about socialization, its impact on identity, and how that identity is communicated to others (namely within educational and transnational spaces). 

Administratively, I am an experienced education project manager specializing in creating and implementing international and intercultural experiences. 

I lend my qualitative research and grantwriting skills to non-profits in various sectors, including public health, international education, and K-12 education.