experience (educator-literary)
PRESENTATIONS, WORKSHOPS, & PERFORMANCES
Open Door, Author Reading, Poetry Foundation, Chicago, IL, Dec 2022
Somatics Writing Workshop for Writing Teachers, Young Chicago Authors, Chicago, IL, August 2022
Somatics Writing Workshop, Chop Wood Carry Water, IL, August 2022
Mercury; Covid Conversations as Dance Music, Santa Fe, NM, June 2021
Somatics Writing as Prism to World Building Workshop, Woodland Pattern Bookstore, July 2021
Somatics to Drawing Workshop, Spudnik Press, Chicago, IL, Jan 2021
Visiting Sound Recorder Artist, San Francisco State, Online, Oct 2020
Critique Week Panel Member, visiting writer, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, Dec 2020, 2019, 2018
MolyBDenim Project as Noise or Transformative Melody. SoundWeb Symposium, Vancouver, BC, May 2019
Coming Around: Urban vs. Pastoral Idiom Transluciferations, Meekling Press, Chicago, IL, 2018
Does an Unbuilt Monument Cast a Shadow, performance w/ Emilio Rojas Chicago Arts Center, Chicago, IL, Oct 2018
The Sonic Intimacies of Worker Dialogues Workshop. Allied Media Conference. Detroit, MI June 2016
MolyBDenim & the Sonic Intimacies of Worker Dialogues. ENTITLE Political Ecology Conference. Stockholm, Sweden. March 2016
Social Movements Oral History Intersections with New Media. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Boston, MA May 2014
Hybrid poetry/fiction Workshop. Columbia College of Chicago. October 2013
Facilitated six week writing workshops for fiction and poetry writers. San Francisco & Oakland, CA 2006-2009
Teaching Mutt Lit: Genre-Benders, Hybrids, and Other Weirdness in the Creative Writing Classroom. American Writer’s Programs. Boston, MA March 2012
COURSE DESIGN
Write in Place; Poetic Lines of Chicago. Designed semester long course emphasizing body-based writing practices and excavations of geography, mapping, place & narration. Columbia College of Chicago, 2020. In-person.
Stories Create History; Power, Narration and the Framing of LGBTQ Events, sixteen week intersectional humanities course, University of El Paso. 2015. Moodle online interface.
ONLINE & REMOTE INSTRUCTOR
World Perspectives of Literature with LGBTQ+ Emphasis, Harold Washington & Harry S. Truman College. Surveys national and international literature within feminist and postcolonial frameworks in both online interface writing and zoom class discussion. Remote learning. Dec 2022 – present.
World Perspectives of Cinema with LGBTQ+ Emphasis, Harold Washington & Harry S. Truman College. Surveys national and international film within feminist and postcolonial frameworks in both online interface writing and zoom class discussion. Remote learning. March 2020 – present.
English Language Instructor for International ELL Adult Students, Online, May 2017 – May 2019.
Stories Create History; Power, Narration and the Framing of LGBTQ Events, Women & Gender Studies Department; Blackboard and Moodle Lecturer, Designed online instructional curricula; excavation of politics of narration, University of Texas, El Paso, Tx, August 2014 – December 2015
Writing Coach, Short story and poetry project support of creative writers via one-on-one video, email, or word processing interfaces, August 2012 – present
IN PERSON LECTURER
World Perspectives of Cinema, Harold Washington & Harry S. Truman College. Surveys national and international film within feminist and postcolonial frameworks. Sep 2018 – March 2020.
English Composition, Richard J. Daley College. January 2015 – January 2016.
English Language Learner Instructor. Design beginning to advanced English lesson plans for Adult Students. Instruct 8 – 16 week group courses for ELL students. Chicago City Colleges. Chicago, Il 2014 – March 2020.
Language Loop. Design beginning to advanced ELL classes for Adult Students. Instruct 10 week independent or group classes. Chicago, Il 2013-2014
Introduction to Creative Writing. Design then instruct 16 week fiction & poetry writing courses emphasizing LGBTQA literatures. University of El Paso, Texas 2011 – 2012
FILM
SOUND RECORDIST
2004-present, Production Sound Recordist. Experience on small and large sets. Have own equipment.
SELECT CONTRACTS:
- Desire Lines. Julien Rosskam. Chicago, Il
- Documenting LGBTQ Elders. AARP. Chicago, Il
- Free CeCe. Dir Jac Gares. New York, NY
- Criminal Queers. Dir Chris Vargas & Erick Stanley. Oakland, CA
- Homotopia. Dir Chris Vargas & Erick Stanley. Oakland, CA
SCREENWRITER
Maggots & Men. Dir. Cary Cronenwatt. 2009
COMPLETED COURSEWORK
- Screenwriting. University of Texas at El Paso
- Film Production. San Francisco Community College
- Sound Design. San Francisco community College
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