Professional Service

• Utah State Board of Education . Role: Member and Master Pedagogue. Utah State Board of Education’s Competency-Based Theatre Education Endorsement Committee - establish requirements, competencies, and alternative pathways to educator licensure for teaching theatre K-12 in the state of Utah. 10/20/2020 - 09/30/2021
• Utah Division of Arts and Museums - Teaching Artist Roster . Role: Recognized State of Utah Teaching Artist. State Teaching Artist, Utah Division of Arts and Museums -Recognized teaching artists work in partnership in schools, nonprofit organizations and other community settings to provide high-quality arts-rich experiences. Services are funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Utah Legislature and local sponsoring organizations. The Teaching Artist Roster is the recommended source of artists for grantees who are funded for projects and events. Artist Requirements: be active in their discipline, demonstrate artistic excellence (artists are not required to have formal training), be flexible and able to work in, and with, a wide variety of settings, populations and ages. 01/01/2020 - present
• iTheatrics . Role: Adjudicator and Master Pedagogue. iTheatrics and Junior Theatre Group. Role: Theatre Educator. January 2018 Master Musical Theatre Dance Adjudicator, Master Teacher, and Choreographer for the iTheatrics DVD New York Audition. 6,000 Youth participants. Atlanta, GA . 01/18/2019 - 01/21/2019
• iTheatrics and Junior Theatre Group. Role: Theatre Educator. January 2018 Master Musical Theatre Dance Adjudicator, Master Teacher, and Choreographer for the iTheatrics DVD New York Audition. 6,000 Youth participants. Atlanta, GA . 02/09/2018 - 02/11/2018
• iTheatrics and Junior Theatre Group. Role: Theatre Educator. February 2018 Master Musical Theatre Dance Adjudicator, Master Teacher, and Choreographer for iTheatrics DVD New York Audition. 1,000 youth participants. Sacramento, CA . 01/12/2018 - 01/15/2018
• National Association for Deans of Arts & Sciences, Council of Colleges of Arts & Sciences, . Role: Member. CCAS is the national association for deans of arts & sciences. CCAS represents 800+ deans and 1200+ associate/assistant deans and fosters excellence in colleges and schools of arts & sciences by: connecting deans with each other, providing professional development, serving as a forum for discussing issues in higher education, advocating for liberal learning. 10/01/2017 - present
• iTheatrics and Junior Theatre Group. Role: Theatre Educator. February 2017 Master Musical Theatre Dance Adjudicator, Master Teacher, and Choreographer for the iTheatrics DVD New York Audition. 800 Youth participants. Sacramento, CA . 02/10/2017 - 02/12/2017
• iTheatrics and Junior Theatre Group. Role: Theatre Educator. January 2017 Master Musical Theatre Dance Adjudicator, Master Teacher, and Choreographer for the iTheatrics DVD New York Audition. 6,000 Youth participants. Atlanta, GA . 01/13/2017 - 01/15/2017
• Utah State Board of Education. Member, Utah State Board of Education Fine Arts State Standards Writing Committee – Dance Representative. 08/10/2016 - 04/01/2017
• iTheatrics . Role: Master Arts Educator. Master Musical Theatre Dance Adjudicator and Choreographer for the iTheatrics DVD New York Audition. 6,200 Youth participants. Atlanta, GA Atlanta, GA . 01/16/2015 - 01/19/2015
• Utah Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance Board. Member, Utah Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance Board. 09/01/2014 - 05/01/2015
• Paul Laurence Dunbar High School . April 2014 Guest Integrated Instructor for the Fundamentally and Mentally Delayed Children’s Unit at Paul Laurence Dunbar High School. Taught 15 children and mentored 5 Special Education Classroom Teachers in an integrated dance and literacy lesson. Lexington, KY . 04/2014 - 04/2014
• iTheatrics. January 2014/2015 Master Musical Theatre Dance Adjudicator and Choreographer for the iTheatrics DVD New York Audition. 6,200 Youth Participants. Atlanta, GA . 01/2014 - 01/2015
• University of Kentucky’s Academy of Creative Excellence . Role: Master Pedagogue. April 2014 Guest Presenter and Professional Development Consultant for Fayette County Public Schools. Designed, organized, and taught professional development workshops for The School For Creative and Performing Arts, Sts Peter and Paul Catholic School, Dixie Elementary, and for educators in rural parts of the state. Lexington, KY . 04/2012 - 04/2014
• Board of Directors Member Spy Hop Institute for Teachers. Member, Board of Directors Member Spy Hop Institute for Teachers. 08/05/2011 - 06/30/2015
• Dance and the Child International Board, Utah . Member, Dance and the Child International Board, Utah; teach, coordinate, organize inter-generational classes for the annual Utah Day of Dance. 09/01/2008 - present

Internal Service

• Learning Outcome Assessment Advisory Board, Undergraduate Studies. Member, 05/01/2021 - present. University service.
• University Advisory Council on Teacher Education, University of Utah. Member, 08/24/2020 - present. University service.
• Department of Theatre Student Recruitment Committee. Member, 08/24/2020 - present. Department service.
• College of Education Dean Search . Committee Member, 12/09/2019 - 04/30/2020. Other service.
• Director of Graduate Studies: Master of Arts in Teaching - Fine Arts Degree. Director of Graduate Studies, 08/05/2019 - present. Department service.
• UMFA Distance Learning Project Work Group, Creativity Collective, in response to the exhibition Here, Here by artists Las Hermanas' interactive exhibition with themes around the ideas of play, building community, and creativity. As an arts educator I co-developed curricula the UMFA School Programs educators. The developed curricula were taught throughout the state in various public schools. Educator and Curriculum Designer, 06/23/2017 - 02/23/2018. College service.
• School of Dance Search Committee: Dance Education and Community Partnerships Faculty . Member, 03/09/2017 - 05/01/2017. College service.
• Arts and Social Justice Network Member. Member, 02/23/2017 - present. University service.
• Community Engaged Learning Course Designation Committee  . Member, 08/08/2016 - 05/31/2017. University service.
• Arts Education Committee. Chair, 10/06/2014 - present. College service.
• College of Fine Arts College Council. Member, 10/06/2014 - present. College service.
• College of Fine Arts Executive Committee . Member, 10/06/2014 - present. College service.
• College of Fine Arts Dean’s Cabinet . Member, 10/06/2014 - present. College service.
• Bennion Center Faculty Fellows Committee . Faculty Fellow, 09/15/2014 - 05/22/2015. University service.
• Bennion Center - Community Engagement Task Force Committee . Member, 09/15/2014 - 05/22/2015. University service.

Community Partnership

• UNP Hartland Youth Center. Teach weekly dance and theatre education classes (virtual classes during COVID restrictions). 01/07/2020 - 11/17/2020
• UNP Hartland Youth Center. Teach weekly dance and theatre education classes. 01/08/2019 - 12/10/2019
• UNP Hartland Youth Center. Teach weekly dance and theatre education classes. 01/09/2018 - 12/11/2018
• UNP Hartland Youth Center. Teach weekly dance and theatre education classes. 01/10/2017 - 12/12/2017
• Performance partnership at the Jordan River to bring access and community awareness of this outdoor space. Collaboration between the Hartland Youth Center, love DANCEmore, Seven Canyons Trust, ArtsBridge, and Refuges. 10 Hartland Youth performed a water dance on the river for families and community members. 01/10/2017 - 06/13/2017
• UNP Hartland Partnership Center - Teach weekly theatre and dance classes with the youth in an effort to bring them together and foster their energy in creative projects that they write and perform as a community. Thirty students and five parents attend. , 12/2008 - present. 07/07/2016 - 12/13/2016
• The Hartland Youth Theatre and Dance Program performed their original Seeking Refuge dance theatre piece for the Interethnic Health Alliance’s Visions Without Boarders fundraiser for communities and workers in Uganda, Africa. 01/18/2016 - 03/19/2016
• The Hartland Youth Theatre and Dance Program performed an original dance/theatre piece entitled: for the Frederick W. Reynolds Lecture Series, Seeking Refuge: At Home and Around The World presented by Continuing Education and Community Engagement at Libby Gardner Hall, University of Utah. Youth generated migration movements and connected their personal stories of what is is like being a refugee and immigrant youth in Salt Lake City, Utah. 01/11/2016 - 03/19/2016
• The Hartland Youth Theatre and Dance Program performed their original Seeking Refuge dance theatre piece for the Interethnic Health Alliance’s Visions Without Boarders fundraiser for communities and workers in Uganda, Africa. 01/19/2015 - 03/06/2015
• Create, design, and implement high quality professional development to support the preparation and training of arts specialists in the following school districts and charter schools: Salt Lake City, Granite, Canyons, Murray, Tooele, Park City, North and South Summit, Dual Immersion Academy, Pacific Heritage Academy, Guadalupe Charter, and Canyon Rim Academy. Using research-based best practices, the University of Utah Professional Development Program develops and implements professional learning/growth activities that include regional workshops, individual mentoring/training,on-going evaluation to ensure consistent preparation and training for Beverley Taylor Sorenson Arts Learning Program schools and specialists in the University of Utah region. 08/01/2008 - present

Outreach

• Provided professional development arts integration support to the Open Classroom as a recruiting opportunity to the Beverley Taylor Sorenson Arts Learning Program. 06/01/2017 - 01/10/2018
• Hartland High School Theatre and Dance Students Performed Club U Summer Camp Performance and Liberian Dance Class . 06/13/2016 - 06/13/2016
• Professor Participant/Workshop Theatre Education Leader for the Lowell Bennion Center’s Community Engagement Day – Project Youth. Taught theatre integration workshops to 100 sixth grade Salt Lake City students from Title 1 schools. The mission of the interactive workshops are to provide students opportunities to learn about what the University of Utah and college life has to offer their future. 04/27/2016 - 04/27/2016
• Professor Participant/Workshop Theatre Education Leader for the Lowell Bennion Center’s Community Engagement Day – Project Youth. Taught theatre integration workshops to 100 sixth grade Salt Lake City students from Title 1 schools. The mission of the interactive workshops are to provide students opportunities to learn about what the University of Utah and college life has to offer their future. 04/29/2015 - 04/29/2015

Honors & Awards

• 2014 Recipient of the Utah Association For Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance Award for Outstanding Dance Teacher of the Year. Utah Association For Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, 05/2014

In the Media

• Featured story, ABC4 News regarding the research study, Inclusion in the elementary art classroom- peer partners, students with diverse abilities. 06/03/2019.
• Featured Success Story - Arts Education Partnership International Blog: Category - Support Effective Educators and School Leaders. Title: How Educators Make the Arts Work in Utah a focus on the Beverley Taylor Sorenson Arts Learning Program. 09/11/2018. http://www.aep-arts.org/wp-content/uploads/Success...
• Featured Research Article with VSA International: Peer Partners in the Elementary Art Classroom Lead to Growth for Students With and Without Disabilities. 06/07/2018. https://vsainternational.wordpress.com/2018/06/07/...
• Author of a featured story surrounding my community engaged work in the Americans for the Arts National Blog. 04/02/2014. http://blog.artsusa.org/2014/04/02/access-and-comm...