Resume

• 2010

  Institute for Creative Technologies

  Institute for Creative Technologies

  UCSD Department of Communication

  La Jolla

  CA

  Led discussion sections and evaluated assignments for a variety of undergraduate courses

  including Introduction to Communication; Communication and Social Force; Communication and the Person; Gender and Science; and Advertising and Society.

  Teaching Assistant

  Communication

  I teach undergraduate Communication courses on science

  technology

  gender

  and media. Recent courses include Cyborg Selves in Digital Culture

  Gender and Science

  and Introduction to Communication. Fall 2014 I will be teaching a junior seminar titled Simulation as Communication.

  Lecturer

  University of California

  San Diego

  La Jolla

  CA

  Wrote short “on this day in science” pieces and edited transcripts of scientists giving interviews and talks to accompany webcasts on the TSN website.

  Science Writer & Editor

  The Science Network

  Managed

  edited

  laid-out

  and wrote articles for Volunteer Connections

  a quarterly newsletter of the five PPWW affiliate offices and their 400+ volunteers.

  Volunteer Newsletter Coordinator

  Greater Seattle Area

  Planned Parenthood of Western Washington

  La Jolla

  CA

  Assisted in research for a study of the politicization of health journalism in the United States since the 1960s coordinated by Dr. Daniel C. Hallin

  UCSD Department of Communication and Dr. Charles Briggs

  UC Berkeley Department of Anthropology. Sampled and coded articles; used a SPSS database to record and analyze data.

  Research Assistant

  Politicization of Health News Content Analysis Project

  La Jolla

  CA

  Led discussion sessions and evaluated written work for a variety for courses including Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication; The Society of the Spectacle; Origins of Culture

  Art

  and Technology; Medical Technology and Ethics; and Sensory Perception and Social Experience.\n\nAdditionally

  I served as an administrative liaison and TA mentor for four CAT classes

  a position where I helped develop classroom work and assignments.

  Teaching Assistant

  Liaison

  and Mentor

  UCSD Sixth College Culture

  Art

  and Technology Program

  Black Rock City

  NV

  Provided informational and administrative assistance to members of the media to assure respectful accordance with Burning Man LLC media policies.

  Volunteer

  Burning Man Media Mecca

  Seattle

  WA

  Executed and oversaw much of the editorial process for Lexus Magazine

  including: writing

  editing

  writer relations

  and fact checking.\n\nPerformed additional copy-editing and proofreading services for clients including Bank of America and Microsoft.

  Associate Editor

  Story Worldwide

  La Jolla

  CA

  I defended my dissertation

  “War

  Trauma

  and Technologies of the Self: The Making of Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy\" in 2013.\n\nMy research employs theories of how media configure the agency and identity of users to analyze what I call technologies of therapeutic mediation—devices designed to make subjective experience available for therapeutic re-working. A wealth of scholarship has analyzed the role of medical imaging technology in constructing selves

  the use of media technology in psychotherapeutic practice remains an understudied topic. In investigating this area

  I have chosen to focus particularly on Virtual Iraq/Afghanistan

  a virtual reality system designed to aid therapists in treating military service members suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. The research draws on over a year of ethnographic fieldwork in the MedVR Lab of the Institute for Creative Technologies at the University of Southern California

  attendance at “cybertherapy” conferences and clinical training sessions

  interviews with therapists

  and textual analysis of both popular and scientific representations.

  PHD Researcher

  UC San Diego

• 2006

  Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

  Communication and Science Studies

  University of California

  San Diego

• 2000

  Spanish

  Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)

  English

  University of California

  Berkeley

• University Teaching

  Copy Editing

  Teaching Writing

  Team Leadership

  Interdisciplinary Teaching

  Nonprofits

  Editing

  Qualitative Research

  Research

  Communication

  Curriculum Development

  Technical Writing

  Digital Media

  Writing

  Data Analysis

  Brandt

  Brandt

  UCSD Department of Communication

  University of California

  San Diego

  Planned Parenthood of Western Washington

  UC San Diego

  Story Worldwide

  The Science Network

  Politicization of Health News Content Analysis Project

  UCSD Sixth College Culture

  Art

  and Technology Program

  Burning Man Media Mecca