My Digital Work

Research & Professional Appointments

Digital Humanities Lead Developer at the Roberson Project on Slavery, Race, and Reconciliation at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee

Graduate Assistant in the Lab for Education in and the Advancement of Digital Research (LEADR)
Summer 2020, Summer 2022, Spring 2023-May 2024 
Creating and designing workshops. Writing and testing documentation and handouts for teaching digital tools and platforms. Working with Anthropology and History Faculty to plan and implement the use of digital tools, platforms, and methods in their curriculum. Innovating new ways of learning and teaching. 

History Internship Program Coordinator
2020-2023 
Department of History at Michigan State University. Attending recruitment events on behalf of the Department, like Michigan History Day and the Historical Society of Michigan Annual Conference. Working with campus and community partners to forge relationships between the department and internship sites. Leading and organizing workshops on career diversity and career development. 

Graduate Researcher at MATRIX Center for Digital Humanities & Social Science
2023-2025 
Michigan State University. Organizing, cataloging, digitizing and writing metadata for a collection of physical menus. 

Editor, H-Food-Studies on H-Net
January 2023-2025 
Editor for the digital platform for sharing and engaging with food studies researchers. 

Intern at East Lansing Info in East Lansing, Michigan
January 2021-December 2021 
Writing articles for a local, independent news outlet. Researching issues relating to the City of East Lansing and FOIA requests. 

Historical Researcher at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum
2019-2020 
Researcher for the exhibit, InterStates of Mind: Rewriting the Map of the United States in the Age of the Automobile, as part of the Sharing Expertise and Exploring Knowledge (SEEK) Fellowship with the Graduate School at Michigan State University. 

Research Assistant for Dr. Delia Fernandez-Jones
Spring 2020
Editing footnotes and citations for her monograph, Making the MexiRican City: Migration, Placemaking, and Activism in Grand Rapids, Michigan (Urbana-Champaign, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 2020). 

Career Diversity Fellow in the History Department at Michigan State University
2019-2020 
Worked with Dr. Michael Stamm as part of the American Historical Association (AHA) Career Diversity Implementation Grant. Collaborating with AHA Career Diversity Fellows from member universities. Organizing and participating in career diversity workshops with alum and community members. 

Culinary Coordinator for the Somerville Arts Council – City of Somerville, Massachusetts
2017-2018 
Coordinating the Nibble Entrepreneurship Program, a workforce development program offering tools and resources to lower-income immigrants to lower the barriers to entry in the local market. Teaching and co-leading workshops covering topics as diverse as food costs and budgeting, licenses and registrations, branding, and food handling. Organized and hosted international cooking classes with chefs from around the world. Collaborating with the Arts Council, Health Department, Architects, Chefs, and Vendors to plan and build the Nibble Incubator Kitchen. Writing and implementing Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs). 

Research Assistant for the Gastronomy Program at Boston University
2016-2017 
Digitizing and writing metadata for submitted master’s theses from the Gastronomy Program. 

Front of House Manager at Harvest Restaurant in Cambridge, Massachusetts
2013-2015 
In-house marketing and promotion, daily operations, working with vendors and suppliers, programming and using Point-of-Sales systems and Reservation platforms, updating websites 

Research Intern at the Fondation pour le Recherche Stratégique in Paris, France
May-August 2010 
Editing dossiers. Researching emerging security markets and developments from key contractors like Boeing and Lockheed-Martin. Organizing and hosting a Conference with the European Union, in support of the Hague Code of Conduct (HCoC) for Nuclear Non-Proliferation with the African Union and Middle Eastern League. 

Arts & Entertainment Editor and Writer for the Grand Valley Lanthorn at Grand Valley State University in Allendale and Grand Rapids, Michigan
March 2006-May 2009 
Leading Arts & Entertainment Staff Writers. Planning special issues, assigning articles to and overseeing staff writers. 

Collections and Exhibits Intern at the Michigan Historical Museum in Lansing, Michigan
May-August 2007 
Writing interpretive labels for the public for use in temporary exhibits relating to topics of cultural, economic, and social history, including June Bride, a curated collection of 1920s bridal artifacts in the Hudson’s Department Store Window.