2012

Writing Instruction Specialist, California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo

PhD, Syracuse University, 2012. M.A., Language and Literacy, California State University, Chico, 2004; B.A., English and Theatre, California State University, Chico, 2001.

Research Interests: interdisciplinary approaches to writing and research; community engagement models and the ethics of service; situated and community literacies, particularly where rural, food, farm, and environmental rhetorics converge; scholarship and teaching for social change; and the rhetorics of social movements.

Dissertation Title: Food for Thought: Sustainability, Community-Engaged Teaching and Research, and Critical Food Literacy.