UNIVERSITY EXPERIENCE

• National Louis University, English 201: Intermediate English (Online), 2024-current
• National Louis University, Learning Support Team – Writing Specialist, 2022-current (In-person and online)
• University of Montana, English Department – Introduction to College Writing & Creative Writing Courses, 2019-2021 (In-person and online)

NONPROFIT TEACHING

Chicago Poetry Center, 2023 – current

• Poet in Residence – Teach weekly poetry lessons for students in Chicago Public Schools (including Sayre Language Academy, Dulles Elementary, and at Morton College STEAMers Camp)

Free Verse Writing Project, 2021- present

• Poetry Workshop Teacher – Create unique lesson plans and teach a few times a month virtually to incarcerated teenagers in juvenile detention centers, long-term facilities, and youth homes across Montana.

• St. Patrick’s Adolescent Psychiatric Unit – Taught poetry once a week in-person to the youth at the hospital experiencing emotional crises (2021-2022)

Missoula Writing Collaborative, 2021-2022

• Ledger Art Project – Assisted Salish Storyteller Aspen Decker in teaching kids across Montana reservations to write creation stories and create Ledger Art

• Writers’ Room Workshops – Taught poetry and creative writing classes virtually to professional writers across the Pacific Northwest

• Rattlesnake Writing Workshop – Taught poetry, fiction, and nonfiction to a group of 13-16-year-old writers for a week in Missoula, MT