Professional Service

• Discourse and Society. Role: Board Member. Peer reviewer. 01/01/2022 - present
• Enculturation. Editorial Board. 01/2015 - present
• Rhetoric Review. Review Board member. 05/2012 - present

Internal Service

• College Advisory Committee. Chair, 08/22/2023 - present. College service.
• Chair, Executive Committee. 08/15/2023 - present. Department service.
• Graduate Committee. Member, 01/01/2022 - 08/16/2023. Department service.
• Curriculum Committee. member, 08/18/2021 - 08/01/2023. Department service.
• Qualified Interdisciplinary Teaching Programs. Member, 07/01/2021 - present. College service.
• UPTAC. Member, 07/01/2021 - 07/01/2023. University service.
• First-Year Writing Committee. Chair, 07/01/2020 - 06/01/2023. Department service.
• Director of Graduate Studies. Chair, 01/01/2018 - 08/18/2021. Department service.
• RPT Committee. 09/01/2017 - 06/01/2018. College service.
• RPT Committee. member, 09/01/2017 - 05/01/2018. Department service.
• Search Committee, Chair Position. Chair, 08/01/2017 - 03/01/2018. Department service.
• RPT Committee. Member and Chair, 07/01/2016 - present. Department service.
• Academic Service ● Chair of Department Executive Committee (2021), WRS ● Director of Graduate Studies, (2018-2021), WRS ● Graduate Committee, (2021-Present), WRS ● Director of First-Year Writing/Writing Program Administrator—WRTG 1010 & WRTG 2010 (2014- 2017; 2020-Present), WRS/University ● First Year Writing Committee, Chair (2020-Present) ● Online Writing Committee (2020-Present), WRS ● RPT chair, department (2019-2020, 2022-Present): developed a template for tenure document, mentored faculty through the review and tenure process; WRS ● RPT Committee member (2020-Present), WRS ● Undergraduate Studies Committee member (2019/2020), College ● Curriculum Committee member (2019-present), WRS ● Curriculum Committee member (2019-2020), College ● Dean Search Committee (Fall 2021), College/University ● Dean Search Committee (Fall 2013), College/University ● Career Development Committee (Fall 2021-Present), College ● UPTAC (2020-Present), University ● Qualified Interdisciplinary Teaching Programs (2021-Present) University ● Coordinator of WRTG 1010 (Fall 2010-Summer 2014) ● Graduate Committee, (2013-Present), English ● Mentor for the Graduate Students of Color Support Group (2019-Present), College ● North American Critical Discourse Analysis conference (May 2011), co-hosted with Tom Huckin. This is all my service together, 06/01/2016 - present. Department service.
• First Year Writing Director--WRTG 1010 and WRTG 2010. 07/2014 - present. University service.
• Graduate Committee. 08/2013 - present. Department service.
• Library Committee. 12/2010 - 12/2011. College service.
• Writing 1010 Coordinator. Coordinator, 07/2010 - 06/2014. Department service.

Community Partnership

• Victim Services Commission (state of Utah). 02/22/2024 - present
• Victims of Violent Crimes. 01/01/2018 - present
• Utah Courts, Jury Instructions Committee. 01/2015 - present
• Utah Courts, Language Access Committee, expert on language Chair of Sub-committee on Language and Culture . 06/2012 - 08/01/2018

Honors & Awards

• Tanner Research Fellowship, 1 semester. Tanner, 12/05/2022
• The special issue of TCQ that my article “A Legal Discourse of Transparency: Discursive Agency and Domestic Violence in the Technical Discourse of the Excited Utterance Exception to Hearsay.” appeared in won the 2013 CCCC Technical and Scientific Communication Award in the category of Best Original Collection of Essays. CCCC, 03/2013