Experience

Organization of American Historians

• United States
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• OAH Distinguished Lecturer

  • Jan 2014 - Present

  Since 1981, OAH presidents have appointed their most illustrious and dynamic colleagues to our program, making it one of the longest running and most successful efforts of its kind among scholarly associations. Lecture topics: • A Vision of Students Today: Emerging Technologies in the History Classroom • Teaching World War I: Meuse-Argonne & Historical Landscape • Where Do I Come From? Family History in the Classroom • C3 Framework: How to Handle the Common Core Standards in the History Classroom Show less



Mink'ED

• United States
• Non-profit Organizations

• Content, Curriculum, Project Management Consultant

  • Jul 2012 - Present

  Mink’ED specializes in advancing deep collaboration between three partner domains in support of inquiry-based teaching and learning: Teaching and Schools, Scholarship and Universities, and Technology and Businesses With a focused combination of aspirational and practical approaches, Mink’ED facilitates the design and implementation of innovative perspectives for the use of digital tools to activate and enhance inquiry in the classroom and curriculum. Our work is values-driven and experienced-based with key themes of Equity • Inquiry • Collaboration Mink’ED helps bring the right teams together to advance these conversations. Work in a community of educators from all levels, across disciplines, from different geographies. ON-GOING, CURRENT, AND COMPLETED PROJECTS: http://minked.org/projects-2/ Show less



National Humanities Center

• United States
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Vice President of Education Programs

  • May 2016 - Dec 2022

  Responsibilities include: • Contribute oversight to Center-wide budget and endowment (approximately $75m) • Manage department $5m budget with direct report staff and over 200 consultants annually • Design strategic mission-driven professional development and public programs • Implement DEI policies in workplace culture • Secure and manage grants and gifts • Design marketing and sales campaign of revenue-generating activities • Cultivate and maintain working relationships with program officers for foundations and funders • Represent the organization in external outlets and events • Develop a social media and press relations strategy • Lead presentations and give keynotes at major conferences • Plan and moderate 40-45 episodes of Humanities in Class Webinar Series. Responsible for building audience over 700% in 2016 to 2022. • Design Humanities in Class Online Course portfolio. • Design and administer the Humanities in Class Digital Library. Invite and manage relationships with 105 content provider partners and 27 Early Adopter Schools and Colleges. In 2021, this platform was named Best Digital Tool for Teaching and Learning by the American Association of School Librarians. • Design and implement 35 days of in person programs as the Humanities in Class Workshops & Institutes for K-12 teachers, university and college faculty, and graduate students annually. • Report to Board of Directors quarterly. Show less


National Council for History Education
• United States
• Civic and Social Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Master Teacher and Pedagogy Consultant

  • Apr 2010 - Apr 2020


Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME)

• United States
• Research Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Program & Professional Development Specialist

  • Jan 2015 - May 2016

  Responsibilities: Conceived and implemented a national professional development program for educators on the pedagogy of Open Education Resources (OER). Created long-term partnerships with state departments of education in Virginia, North Carolina, Washington, New York, Kentucky, California, and Puerto Rico. Responsibilities: Conceived and implemented a national professional development program for educators on the pedagogy of Open Education Resources (OER). Created long-term partnerships with state departments of education in Virginia, North Carolina, Washington, New York, Kentucky, California, and Puerto Rico.



Education Consultant

• United Kingdom
• Education Administration Programs
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Field and Research Expeditions Consultant

  • Jul 2004 - May 2016

  Design, facilitated, evaluated multi-day experiential research trips that assemble teams of scholars, educators, and technology experts to explore and connect place as classroom, including: • When We Were British, London, England (7 days - 2015) • Contested Landscape of World War I, Meuse-Argonne region of France (10 days - 2014) • Interwar Period, 1914-1947, Belgium & France (8 days - 2012) • Transatlantic Slave Trade, Atlantic Caribbean with emphasis on Barbados (8 days - 2011) • Changing Face of Immigration, Chicago (7 days - 2011) • America's West, Colorado (7 days - 2010) • Birth of American Democracy, Boston (7 days - 2009, 2010) • Civil Rights Trail, Mississippi & Georgia (7 days - 2008) • American Civil War, Jamestown & eastern Virginia (7 days - 2008) • The Other Voice: Native Perspective of Jamestown (7 days - 2007) • Grand Canyon: Outdoors as Classroom (7 days - 2004-06) Responsible for instructional goals of each field course, including collaboration with local organizations, sites, and government, technology support, and curricular resources. Show less



University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• Research
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Executive Director, LEARN NC & Clinical Instructor

  • Aug 2012 - Sep 2014

  From 2012-14, Mink positioned LEARN NC as a hub for project creation that connected instruction, technology, and scholarship to benefit schools, communities and partner organizations. Primary responsibilities included the design, organization, and implementation of experiential professional development projects for K-12 and university educators with a particular emphasis on the integration humanities and STEM content; the lead on development efforts to raise funds; the management of university personnel and budgets; the facilitation of university faculty, resources, and existing projects to connect existing scholarship, community and academic partners; the management of public relations, social media, and press relations. He invited and assembled an Advisory Board of education leaders, facilitated regular communications and feedback, and organized bi-annual meetings. He interacted frequently with University leadership up to Provost level. Performed the following additional duties to meet e-learning goals: •identified critical professional development needs for K-12 teachers and recruited content experts to design online courses to meet these needs •led instructional design process to create a portfolio of 60 new online courses in the “Invest in Teachers” program in 2014 •facilitated the development of new evaluation standards for online courses and instruction •promoted course offerings to education organizations on a state, regional, and national level •connected the curriculum development of these online activities with multiple delivery options, including mobile technology, archival repositories, and digital textbooks Show less



University of Virginia

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Adjunct Faculty, School of Continuing and Professional Studies

  • Sep 2012 - Aug 2014

  Provided on-site professional workshops for cohorts of visiting Chinese university faculty that showcased American education system K-16 with an emphasis on instructional technology and hands-on methodology. Provided on-site professional workshops for cohorts of visiting Chinese university faculty that showcased American education system K-16 with an emphasis on instructional technology and hands-on methodology.



Virginia Center for Digital History, University of Virginia

• Director of Outreach and Education & Principal Investigator

  • Jun 2002 - Aug 2012

  Responsibilities: Created first outreach center for digital humanities in support of award-winning digital projects at the University of Virginia. Planned and implemented strategic partnerships with federal, private, and community funding organizations. Responsibilities: Created first outreach center for digital humanities in support of award-winning digital projects at the University of Virginia. Planned and implemented strategic partnerships with federal, private, and community funding organizations.


Expeditionary Learning Outward Bound
• United States
• National Consultant and School Designer

  • 2002 - 2003


Orange County Public Schools

• Primary and Secondary Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• History Teacher; Founding Director of Discovery Program

  • Sep 1992 - Jun 2002

  PROSPECT HEIGHTS MIDDLE SCHOOL, ORANGE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS Team Leader (1993-2002) Master Teacher/Department Chair (1995-1997) Peer Observer (1995-1997) SEER Teacher (1995-1996) Chair of Middle-High School Forum (1994-1996) Core Master Teacher (1995-1996) DISCOVERY PROGRAM Founding director of award-winning "school within a school" that provided emphasis on experiential methodologies to annual group of 50 students, including outdoor and field expeditions, inquiry-based research, internships and apprenticeships, and university and community collaborations. www.vcdh.virginia.edu/cdweb/home.htm Show less


Expeditionary Learning Institute
• Experiential Education Consultant and Facilitator

  • 2000 - 2001