Experience

Pinecrest Elementary School

• United States
• Education Administration Programs
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Librarian

  • Apr 2018 - Present

  Aspiring to assure that books and reading are a beneficent presence in children’s lives - just as my elementary school library experiences set me on the path of lifelong learning and a love for literature. Aspiring to assure that books and reading are a beneficent presence in children’s lives - just as my elementary school library experiences set me on the path of lifelong learning and a love for literature.



Lansing Community College

• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Adjunct Instructor of Writing

  • Dec 2014 - Jan 2018

  Teaching Composition 1 course to a diversity of students. Emphasis on critical thinking and intensive pre-writing. Minimal yet intense lecturing focuses on historical and contemporary access to public sphere among those with the intention to voice dissent. Teaching Composition 1 course to a diversity of students. Emphasis on critical thinking and intensive pre-writing. Minimal yet intense lecturing focuses on historical and contemporary access to public sphere among those with the intention to voice dissent.



Tribal Burial, Inc., a Charter Corporation of LTBB Odawa

• Traditional Tribal Burial Grounds, Board Member

  • Dec 2012 - Aug 2016

  The TTBG Board oversees the development of a green burial ground for LTBB members and their families. Priorities include: eliciting involvement and support of LTBB citizens, provide informative articles and presentations about green/natural burial, and create the option to complete the Circle of Life upon death by a true return to the earth that sustains throughout life. It is an honor to contribute and support the collaborative decision-making processes at TTBG Board meetings. Also: research various particulars of green burial, attend to various writing tasks, such as drafting the Rules and Regulations to a point where they can be commented upon and perfected by LTBB citizen input, and submitting informative articles to the tribal newsletter, Odawa Trails.



Grand Valley State University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Visiting Professor

  • Aug 2015 - May 2016

  Focus on critical thinking through socially conscious, close reading of diverse literatures. Courses taught: Introductory literature, World Mythology, World Literature, and Literature of American Minorities. Focus on critical thinking through socially conscious, close reading of diverse literatures. Courses taught: Introductory literature, World Mythology, World Literature, and Literature of American Minorities.



Davenport University Tutoring Program

• Writing Tutor

  • Aug 2012 - Dec 2013

  Provide feedback on writing for students who make an appointment for individual tutoring. All subjects and courses are welcome and responded to from a perspective of message clarity and overall effectiveness of communication to audience. Cultivation of written voice and the lifelong process of development as a writer are of higher priority than grammar or usage errors, Provide feedback on writing for students who make an appointment for individual tutoring. All subjects and courses are welcome and responded to from a perspective of message clarity and overall effectiveness of communication to audience. Cultivation of written voice and the lifelong process of development as a writer are of higher priority than grammar or usage errors,

• GATE Program Instructor - Native American Culture

  • Jan 2013 - Sep 2013

  Responsible for developing a course in Native American Culture for the LCC East Gifted and Talented Education Program. Focus is on Great Lakes tribes, using stories, language and art to provide gifted students with an in-depth awareness of Anishinaabek lifeways and values. Responsible for developing a course in Native American Culture for the LCC East Gifted and Talented Education Program. Focus is on Great Lakes tribes, using stories, language and art to provide gifted students with an in-depth awareness of Anishinaabek lifeways and values.



Davenport University

• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Adjunct English Instructor

  • Aug 2011 - Dec 2012

  I taught classes in Composition and in Public Speaking. In both areas, I worked to cultivate student connections to the material by prioritizing real-world connections and the refinement of individual points of view. I taught classes in Composition and in Public Speaking. In both areas, I worked to cultivate student connections to the material by prioritizing real-world connections and the refinement of individual points of view.



Michigan State University Department of English

• Graduate Teaching Assistant

  • Aug 2007 - Jun 2012

  Under the auspices of the Department of English, I assigned readings and written projects, gave lectures and facilitated discussions, and generally communicated my enthusiasm for literature and writing to MSU undergrads, Stand-alone courses included: Writing as Exploration, Contemporary Fiction, Women Writers, Native American Literature. Under the auspices of the Department of English, I assigned readings and written projects, gave lectures and facilitated discussions, and generally communicated my enthusiasm for literature and writing to MSU undergrads, Stand-alone courses included: Writing as Exploration, Contemporary Fiction, Women Writers, Native American Literature.