Professional Service

  • Decoding Dyslexia - Utah Chapter. Role: Director of Higher Education. A national organization that aims to educate, advocate, and legislate about dyslexia. 01/01/2021 - present

Internal Service

  • Education Licensure Program Admissions Committee. reviewing undergraduate applications for acceptance into education licensure programs, 02/01/2023 - present. College service.
  • Faculty Advisory Committee on Teacher Education Committee. member, 01/01/2022 - present. College service.
  • Dissertation Committee. Member, 01/01/2022 - 03/05/2023. Department service.
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee. member, 01/01/2021 - 12/31/2021. Department service.

Community Partnership

  • LIncoln Elementary, Granite School District. 10/01/2023 - 05/01/2024
  • Williams Community School, Austin, TX . 05/01/2023 - present

Honors & Awards

  • John Wills Lloyd Outstanding Doctoral Research Award. Council for Exceptional Children - Division for Learning Disabilities, 02/2021
  • Student Research Award in the quantitative category for a study investigating the relative effects of instruction integrating word reading and word meaning compared to word reading instruction alone on the accuracy, fluency, and word meaning knowledge of students with dyslexia in grades 4-5. Council for Exceptional Children - Division for Research, 12/20/2020
  • Selected as an early career scholar to participate in a research network studying the integration of academic and behavior supports through multi-tiered systems of support. Multi-Tiered Systems of Support-Research Network, 01/01/2020

In the Media

  • Interview with Jan Wasowicz, Founder of SpellTalk Current State of the Evidence: The Effects of Orton-Gillingham interventions on the Reading Outcomes of Students with Word Level Reading Difficulties. 11/01/2022. https://learningbydesign.com/journal-article-discu...
  • Interview with Dr. Matthew Burns (Professor at University of Missouri and Director of Center for Collaborative Solutions for Kids, Practice, and Policy) to discuss our manuscript entitled, "Current State of Evidence: The Effects of Orton-Gillingham Interventions on the Reading Outcomes of Students with Word Level Reading Difficulties." . 03/2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eB4AuQyqnNI