Curriculum Vitae

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Education	BA, Portland State University Majors: Black Studies, Liberal Studies, Social Science Minors: Writing, History	2017 (Exp.)
Honors & Awards	Stephen Epler Scholarship	2015-2016
Research Experience	Ronald B. McNair Research Fellowship, Portland State University, Jan. 2017-Aug. 2017 Faculty Mentor: Dr. Shirley Jackson, Black Studies Chair and Professor Focus: Historical examination of Black working class women in Portland, Ore., and Vancouver, Wash., during and after World War II	2017
Employment	Queeries Program Coordinator, Portland State University Queer Resource Center developed training curriculum recruited and managed 25 volunteers designed 4 new panel options provided 20 panels to university and Portland-area high school classes	2014-2015
	Equal Rights Director, Associated Students of PSU, Portland, OR collaborated with 5 campus resource centers for marginalized student populations participated in 3 lobbying days at the state legislature presented testimony before state legislature oversaw development of 4 interns	2013-2013
	Development Communications Intern, Cascade AIDS Project, Portland, OR used Kintera & Constant Contact wrote and sent newsletters to hundreds of supporters created and grew organization’s social media presence worked with 15 event vendors for largest annual fundraising event	2010-2011
Presentations	“Working-class Black women’s roles in building and sustaining Black communities in the Pacific Northwest” Portland State University Undergraduate Research Symposium May 2017	2017
Selected Courses	Imperialisms and “Colonial Laboratories” in Europe and Asia Cultural Geography Reading and Research Seminars in World History: Commodities Colonial Rule and African Response: Partition and Pacification Scientific Racism Women in African Culture and History History of Africa, 1800 to Present Oregon African American History The Black Diaspora History of Ghana up to 1800 East African Cultures and Civilizations Writing as Critical Inquiry Historical Imagination
Research Interests	19th, 20th, & 21st Century Black Diaspora, Informal Economy, Women and Gender, Civil Rights, Decolonization and Nationalist Movements, LGBTQ Community, Disability Studies
University Service	Queer Students of Color Conference Planning Committee, Portland State University Queer Resource Center	2011-2017
	Advisory Board, Portland State University Queer Resource Center	2013-2014
Community Involvement	University Choir, Portland State University	2016-2017
	Bread and Roses Feminist Radio Collective, KBOO Community Radio	2015-Present
	Portland State University Debate Union	2014-2015
	Videographer & Interviewer, Vanport Mosaic Project	2014-2015
	Tutor, Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization	2013
	Facilitator, Bridge 13 Community Education Program, Sexual and Gender Minority Youth Resource Center	2005-2012
Skills	Languages: English, elementary Spanish, elementary Twi (Asante dialect)
	Research methods: archival, visual and textual analysis, oral interviews