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Director of Student Success and Engagement, College Of Humanities
Professional Service
- Intermountain TESOL .
board member.
10/01/2016 - present
- TESOL.
Reader for TESOL Awards Committee.
04/2008 - 03/2009
Internal Service
- Global U Council.
01/01/2019 - present.
University service.
- Utah Global Academic Quality and Assurance Committee.
01/01/2017 - present.
University service.
- Mentor Teacher for University Practicum students, Linguistics Department, University of Utah (spring 2009, summer 2009, spring 2010, spring 2011).
01/2009 - 12/2010.
Department service.
Community Partnership
- Know Your Neighbor - helping volunteers conduct conversation classes with refugees learning English.
04/13/2017 - present
- Word Pronouncer, Utah State Spelling Bee presented by Scripts, Salt Lake City, Utah.
03/2015 - present
- Volunteer, Churchill Junior High,Neil Armstrong Academy, Salt Lake City, Utah.
08/2013 - present
- Volunteer ESL teacher, Hartland Apartments, Salt Lake City, Utah.
08/2006 - 06/2007
Honors & Awards
- English Language Specialist.
US State Department, Omsk, Russia (virtual),
01/2023
- Fellow.
New Leadership Academy,
01/2022
- English Language Specialist, US State Department, Turkey (virtual).
02/01/2021
- DEE Grant.
02/15/2020
- Global Learning Across the Disciplines grant $10,000 .
04/18/2019
- ELT Leadership Management Certificate .
TESOL International Organization,
03/15/2019
- Excellence in Global Engagement Staff Award.
University of Utah,
04/2018
- English Language Specialist, US State Department, Indonesia .
US Dept of State,
09/2017
- Facilitator for Fulbright ETA PDO Eurasia (2016, 2017).
Fulbright and IIE,
06/2017
- English Language Specialist, Estonia.
US Department of State,
10/2015
- $10,000 to Department of Linguistics for FLXU courses proposed.
University of Utah - Flxu,
05/2015
- Higher Education Teaching Specialist (HETS) Designation.
University of Utah,
11/2011
- TESOL Certificate.
University of Utah,
11/2006
Affiliations
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TESOL International Association
(TESOL),
member,
01/2008 - present
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Intermountain TESOL
(ITESOL),
member,
01/2008 - present
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American Association of Applied Linguists
(AAAL),
member,
01/2013 - present
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