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Backyard Stages Critical Response Process Salon

Join Backyard Stages, a non-profit that I helped found, for an evening of new work by artists we love! À la the Parisian avant-garde artist/writer salons of the early 1900s, hosted by famous poet and playwright Gertrude Stein, our Critical Response Process (CRP) Salon...
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The Culture and Aesthetics of Disability, Dance, and the Arts

A recording of the panel conversation, The Culture and Aesthetics of Disability, Dance, and the Arts, held at the Moss Arts Center at Virginia Tech is available to listen to here: https://video.vt.edu/media/Clip+of+AI+Awards+USE/1_joh38rzl The moderated conversation...
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League of Historic American Theatres Conference Presentation

Presenting my research at the League of Historic American Theatres 48th National Conference was wildly meaningful for me. Embedding arts-related missions into civic structures, city planning mechanisms, budgetary assets (the list goes on!) can help nonprofits build...
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Women In Politics Panel Discussion

Read this article from the Collegiate Times about a panel discussion I curated on the intersection of femme empowerment, local government, and women in politics on behalf of the School of Performing Arts in the Virginia Tech College of Architecture, Arts, and Design....
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Science Communication Instruction: Summer 2024

It was an honor to work as a science communication instructor again with Virginia Tech College of Engineering 's partner center, the Virginia Tech Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Diversity. The future of engineering is bright!
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Science Communication Techniques at Rutgers University

This past summer, I had the pleasure of teaching science communication techniques at Rutgers University - Camden with the post-docs and PhD students at the Center for Computational and Integrative Biology. Through applied theatre and improvisation, the Center for...
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Interview: Dacquiri Baptiste on Operational Planning

If you are interested in short-, mid-, and long-range operational planning, you might be a nerd for venue management like I am! Dacquiri (Smittick) Baptiste, Vice President and COO of the Orpheum Theatre Group in Memphis, TN, sat down with me for an interview about...
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Research Presentation at the League of Historic Theatres 2024 Conference

Structuring Sustainable Success: Building Functional Relationships Between City-Entities and Nonprofit Theatres as a Means for Ensuring Longevity   I am grateful to be presenting my research at the 48th League of Historic Theatres' annual conference in Milwaukee...
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Orpheum ascending: Short, mid, and long-range planning for a historic theatre venue in Memphis

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Universidad San Francisco de Quito and Science Communication

I had the opportunity to facilitate a science communication workshop with 10 faculty members from the Universidad San Francisco de Quito at Virginia Tech's Graduate School. Here is an article about what we were grappling with concerning the future of AI....
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Universidad San Francisco de Quito and Science Communication

Jul 10, 2023

I had the opportunity to facilitate a science communication workshop with 10 faculty members from the Universidad San Francisco de Quito at Virginia Tech's Graduate School. Here is an article about what we were grappling with concerning the future of AI....

2023 In Vitro Biology Meeting: Presenter

Jun 6, 2023

Special Education Session On Sunday afternoon, June 11 there will be a special Student Networking Luncheon – Effectively Communicating Research to the Non-Scientific Community with Liz Gray, presenter with the Center for Communicating Science at Virginia Tech. It is...

Could shared executive management be the key to fundraising success?

May 26, 2023

From: CreatiVeConnecTions Over the last five years, a trend has been emerging with several notable nonprofit theatres making a shift in executive management structures. Spurred by internal reckonings of certain institutions’ biased histories and/or the recent racial...

Infusing Lateral Leadership into a Nonprofit

May 24, 2023

An excerpt I wrote for the upcoming GOOD GOVERNANCE GUIDE by LEISHA LARIVIERE As a thought experiment, think back to your first job. Did you have one direct manager to report to? Did they have a boss? How many layers of management were there before you reached the top...

Fort Lewis College : Faculty

Dec 23, 2021

After a whirlwind of a fall semester, here we are on Winter Break!  I am lucky enough to be a member of the faculty at the Fort Lewis College Theatre Department, where I spent the last several months teaching Creative Dramatics (300 Level) and Devised &...