Education

• Warner Pacific College

  BSc

  Human Development & Family Studies
  
  

• Warner Pacific College

  Adjunct Professor

  
  Develop curriculum, administer, and assess lessons for Social Sciences, Humanities and Religion courses. Incorporate multiple learning theories though an interdisciplinary approach, including multiple intelligences theory and learning styles, and guided activities between disciplines and vocational outputs. Facilitate co-learning spaces with students, utilizing Socratic, andragogical paradigms. Fostered collaborative service-learning relationships with community partners and implemented critical service learning components into coursework. Developed of a topics course for the First-Year Learning Community program: REL161x – Interfaith Conversations in PDX. Courses Taught: • EN200 – COLLEGE COMPOSITION • HD312 – MIDCHILD/ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT • HIS/SOC340 – ETHNIC RELATIONS IN AMERICA • HUM410 – SENIOR THESIS (PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SUPERVISOR) • REL161X – ONE LOVE: INTERFAITH CONVERSATIONS IN PDX • SOC140 – PRINCIPLES OF SOCIOLOGY • SOC345 – SOCIAL PROBLEMS AND PUBLIC POLICY • SS351 – CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY • URB/SOC360 – URBAN SOCIOLOGY • URB/SOC390 – POVERTY IN THE URBAN CONTEXT
  

• Warner Pacific College

  Peer Mentor

  
  Freshman Year Experience program established for aiding first-year students in their assimilation into collegiate academia and lifestyle. Acted as one of the inaugural Peer Mentors. Elected to this position on Faculty and Staff nomination. Engaged in classroom management and lesson execution. Co-lead seven of the 16 weekly lessons; Solely planned and executed two lessons. Initiated, maintained, and regimented weekly sessions with each individual of my cohort. Upheld outstanding retention ratios, with a graduation success rate of 93%.
  

• Warner Pacific College

  One Year Visiting Professor

  
  One year, half-time visiting professor position held in the Social Science department: 'Scholar-Practitioner' (One-Year, Visiting Professor). Educational: Incorporate multiple learning theories though an interdisciplinary approach, including multiple intelligences theory and learning styles, and guided activities between disciplines and vocational outputs. Facilitate co-learning spaces with students, utilizing critical pedagogical and andragogical paradigms. Departmental: Contribute towards departmental meetings, direction, and processes. Evaluate performance of departmental objectives. Perform in-class observations of colleagues. Research Foci: Confluence of Class and Religion in North-Atlantic/North-American Societies; Capitals Theory; the Acquisition and Transfer of Symbolic Capitals; Racial Formation Theory; Racism; Race, Power, & Class as Social Constructs; Socio-Cultural Perspectives on Interfaith Movements; Ethical Considerations in/for Pluralist Societies; Intersectionality Theory; Queer Theory; and Rhetoric. Course Load: • SOC140 – PRINCIPLES OF SOCIOLOGY (FA15 • SP16) • HIS/SOC340 – ETHNIC RELATIONS IN AMERICA (FA15) • SOC345 – SOCIAL PROBLEMS AND PUBLIC POLICY (FA15) • HD312 – MIDCHILD/ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT (SP16) • HUM410 – SENIOR THESIS (PRIMARY & SECONDARY SUPERVISOR – FA15 • SP16)
  

• Warner Pacific College

  Adjunct Professor

  
  Develop, administer, and assess lessons for Social Sciences, Humanities and Religion courses. Facilitate accelerated learning through: hybrid face-to-face and online forum discussions, tangible and experiential learning outcomes, and student-led discussion. Revised and developed curricula for Social Sciences: SS352: completion of major syllabus revision; in-process syllabus revision for online modality. Continuing education in andragogical best practices and online modality. Courses Taught: • EN103 – WRITTEN COMMUNICATION II • EN200 – COLLEGE COMPOSITION • SS352 – CULTURAL STUDIES • SS391 – RESEARCH DESIGN • BUS/REL/SOC290 – ETHICS, SOCIAL ISSUES, AND RESPONSIBILITY • HUM310 – FAITH, LIVING, AND LEARNING • REL320 – SPIRITUALITY, CHARACTER, AND SERVICE Curricula Revised: • SS352 – CULTURAL STUDIES • MAJOR CURRICULAR REVISION (2013) • CURRICULAR REVISION FOR ONLINE MODALITY (2014)
  

• Durham University

  MA

  Sociocultural Anthropology
  Dissertation Interests: Politics & Social Policy; Cultural Criticism & Relativism; Rhetoric, Identity & Personhood; Individualism; Capitals Theory; Technology as Material & Symbolic Capital; Class & the Digital Divide; Ethical Considerations of/for Pluralist Societies; Rhetoric Awarded with Distinction