TEACHING EXPERIENCE 

SONOMA STATE UNIVERSITY
Lecturer, Fall 2024

  • Teaching 1 4-unit Creative Nonfiction Writing course exploring hybrid and well-known forms. Using a flipped classroom model and Amherst-style workshop critique methods, students learn elements of craft of a variety of nonfiction genres including the lyric essay and memoir to produce two essays ready for publication.

  • Serving as the Faculty Advisor for Zaum, SSU’s award-winning literary magazine. Established connections with the SSU Library and Center for Environmental Inquiry to produce two on-campus events, open to the public, to elevate Zaum’s presence within the SSU community.

  • Teaching 1 3-unit expository writing course on reading and interpreting poetic forms. Students are introduced to methods of analytic reading and writing including The BEAM, Reverse Outlining and Source Synthesis to produce a wide range of work including a Textual Representation, Harvard Lens Essay and Multi-Source Essay.
     
    POMONA COLLEGE, THE CLAREMONT COLLEGES
    Lecturer, Spring 2024

  • Taught a total of 2 in-person sections of Creative Nonfiction Writing. Using a flipped classroom model, and Amherst-style workshop critique methods, students experimented with a variety of nonfiction genres including reportage, cultural criticism, lyric essay, and memoir to develop a portfolio ready for publication.

  • Guided students through developing relationships with editors. Student work published in The Claremont Courier in May 2024.  

SONOMA STATE UNIVERSITY
Lecturer, Fall 2023

  • Taught a total of 2 in-person classes on Analytic Reading & Writing. This course focused on the study and practice in reading, written communication, and information literacy, with emphasis on writing as a process and analytical reading.

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, 2014-2022
Clinical Associate Professor, Tandon School of Engineering, 2021-2022

  • Taught a total of 2 remote writing courses for ELL students including International Writing Workshop I and International Writing Workshop II. These courses introduced critical reading, textual analysis, exploration of personal experience, introduction to library research, development of ideas through progressive writing assignments, and revision. In-class lesson designs emphasized collaboration and teamwork. Developed and participated in a contract grading pilot program. 

Senior Language Lecturer, College of Arts & Sciences & Tandon School of Engineering, 2019-2021

  • Taught a total of 8 writing courses, in-person and remote, for ELL and language proficient students including Writing the Essay and Advanced College Essay. These courses introduced students to textual analysis, inquiry, research methods, and writing in different genres and modalities. Helped adapt course curriculum to include a multimodal essay. 

Language Lecturer, College of Arts & Sciences, 2014-2018

  • Taught a total of 16 in-person writing courses for ELL and language proficient students. One student essay was selected for Mercer Street, an annual anthology of the program’s best student essays that is used for instruction in the following academic year. Another student essay was selected to discuss in a program-wide faculty development meeting about new curriculum changes. 

Writing Center Consultant, 2014-2022

  • Worked 1:1 with graduate and undergraduate students across disciplines and schools on writing assignments including thesis projects, research assignments, essay drafts, and transfer applications. Session reports were frequently used as sample texts during faculty development meetings about writing center best practices.

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SHANGHAI, 2013-2014
Global Academic Fellow in Writing 

  • Worked 1:1, in-person and remote, with ELL and ENL students to support first year writing courses. Helped a group of 7 students form On Century Avenue, a student-run news and media site (recently rebranded as On Magnolia Square). Assistance included developing columns and an editorial calendar as well as organizing workshops with professional journalism to understand freedom of speech within Mainland China. Liaised with university administration to ensure a safe and successful publication launch. 

FACULTY SERVICE 

Faculty Advisor for CSU Global Awareness Learning Outcomes , Sonoma State University, Fall 2023 

  • Drafted a rubric for CSU Global Awareness Learning Outcomes which measure student success in attaining and applying knowledge of social power and difference in relations between self, other people, and social structures locally and nationally while honoring contributions of people of different identities.


Member, Expository Writing Program Diversity & Inclusion Committee, 2020-2022 

  • Participated in revising copy for the new Expository Writing Program website, reviewed assigned texts in course anthologies, and helped draft a departmental style guide for inclusive writing. 


Faculty Advisor, College of Arts & Sciences, 2016

  • For a Deans Undergraduate Research Fund Recipient (DURF), avised a graduating senior on a collection of 10 poems which she used as a writing sample for MFA applications. Subsequently advised the student during her graduate school application process.


Reader, Mercer Street, 2014-2016

  • Reviewed student essays submitted for in the annual anthology for inclusive point of view, text selection, and overall teachability. 

WRITING GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS 

  • Sonoma Arts & Culture Equity Fellowship Grantee, 2023

  • Sonoma County Writer’s Camp, BIPOC Scholar, 2023

  • Hedgebrook, Radical Craft Retreat Scholar, 2021

  • Fellow, Yaddo, 2017 

  • Fellow, The Millay Colony, 2016

  • Margins Fellow, Asian American Writer’s Workshop 2016

  • Creative Capital Grant, Literature Finalist, 2016

SELECT PUBLICATIONS 

  • Kinship, “An interview with Westworld creator, Lisa Joy Nolan,” forthcoming 

  • The Slice, “An interview with novelist Jessamine Chan,” 2023

  • The Slice, “An interview with clinical psychologist Dr. Yael Schonbrun,” 2023 

  • The Boston Globe, “Santa Doesn’t Have to be White,” 2019

  • The Los Angeles Times, “First She Saved My Life, Then She Rescued Me Again,” 2019 

  • Longreads, “Look Inside Your Heart,” 2018

  • Hua Shi Hua: Drawings & Poems from China, Ahsahta Press, 2017

EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE

ANCESTRY.COM

Sensitivity Editor, April 2023-Present

  • Developed an internal Style Guide for Cultural Sensitivity, and advise on the strength of cultural sensitivity within a variety of content produced for Ancestry.com. Content topics include Filipino Heritage, Vietnamese Surnames, and AI-generated descriptions of East and Southeast Asian Ethnicities. 

BELLEVUE LITERARY REVIEW

Poetry Editor, 2016-2021

  • Selected poetry for semi-annual issues on subject relevant to the medical humanities. Annually hired and coordinated with a poetry judge to choose one winner of The BLR Poetry Prize from a pool of over 500 submissions. Moderated discussions about the medical humanities and disabilities literature at The New York Public Library and AWP Tampa, 2018. 

THE NOCTURNISTS

Storytelling Coach, 2019

  • Worked 1:1 with radiologist Bobby Chiong to revise his personal essay, “See One. Do One. Teach One.” for performance. Recording Available Here. 

EDUCATION


New York University MFA, Creative Writing (Poetry Concentration)

Pratt Institute BFA, Writing for Performance, Publication, Media & Print