Curriculum Vitae / Resume

my mission

My mission is to connect past to present, and show that history is a mirror for current events. I am fortunate enough to travel in order to bring new resources into my classroom, and curate material to assist in the learning process of the individuals I am instructing.

Education

Doctorate of Education in Curriculum & Instruction, University of Louisiana, (In Progress)
Master of Arts in History, University of California, San Diego (June 2012)
Bachelor of Arts in History, University of California, San Diego (June 2011)
Associate of Arts in History, Southwestern College, Chula Vista, CA (May 2009)

employment experience

• University of California, San Diego
  Permanent (Continuing) Lecturer
  January 2016 - Present
  Courses Taught: Dimensions of Culture (DOC) 100d [upper-division]

• Grossmont College
  Assistant Professor
  August 2014 - Present
  Courses Taught: U.S. History: Black Perspectives I and II, Intro to Black Studies, Images of Black Women, American Civ. I and II

• Southwestern College
  August 2013 - December 2020
  Courses Taught: American Civ. I & II, World History I, Women in World History, Comparative Americas

professional organizations

Association of Black Women Historians
American Historical Association (AHA)
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
Honors Transfer Council of California
Honors Committee at Southwestern College, Co-Chair (2018-2019)
Journal of Black Studies
Feminist Studies

research grants

• New Orleans: Civil Rights and Jazz
  National Endowment for the Humanities
  June 2019

• The Southern Experience
  National Endowment for the Humanities
  May- June 2016

conferenceS & COMMUNITY PRESENTATIONS

• “Sundown Towns” - San Diego Public Library - Mission Hills, June 2024

• “Afro-German Life During the Third Reich” - SD Central Library & La Jolla Country Day School - San Diego, February 2023

• "‘I Want to Learn More About My History’: Innovative Approaches to Engaging College History Students” - New Orleans, January 2022

• “Race, Culture, and Pigmentocracy: Relating 18th Century Race to Present Historical Studies in the Classroom” - Washington, D.C., January 2018

• “Few But Many: San Diego Civil Rights, 1960-1972” - Pillars of the Community, San Diego 2016

• First Annual Graduate Student Conference - UCSD 2012
  

PRESS

• “Nazi Germany Borrowed from Racist Ideology from Jim Crow South; Prof. Shares
  Experiences of Black Germans” - San Diego Union-Tribune, 2/26/23