STORYTELLER

CURRENT EXPLORATIONS

Literature by female and BIPOC writers

EDUCATION

BA: World History (minor in German), Goucher College, Baltimore, MD, 2009
Semester Abroad: American History and German, Eberhard-karls-Universität Tübingen, Tübingen and Berlin, Germany, 2008

ORGANIZATIONAL EXPERIENCE

Library User Representative, Alaska Governor's Advisory Council on Libraries, 2020-2023
Board Member & Volunteer, Seward Community Library Association, 2019-present
Storytelling Assistant and Coach, Jewish Museum of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, 2009-2010
Social Justice Grant Recipient, Creator and Project Coordinator for “A Moving Narrative: Facing Immigration” public exhibition project, Goucher College, Baltimore, MD, 2008 –2009
Intern, FIRN, Inc.: Resources for the Foreign Born, Baltimore, MD, 2008-2009

PERFORMANCES

"Light and Death in Bosnia" storytelling, Open Mic at EnCompass Virtual Staff Retreat, November 2020
"Now WE must tell THEIR stories: Holocaust Storytelling Workshop" performance, NewCAJE online conference, July 2020
"Friend or Foe" Storytelling Event, Resurrect Art Coffee House, Seward, AK, Jan 2020
"Words and Wilderness" Reading, Resurrect Art Coffee House, Seward, AK, Dec 2019
"Voices Carry" Poetry Reading, Community Library & Museum, Seward, AK, Apr 2019
"Trails and Tales" Storytelling Event, Zudy's Cafe, Seward, AK, Nov 2018
Local Writers' Reading, Zudy's Cafe, Seward, AK, June 2017
"Winged Listeners: Sharing the Stories of Holocaust Survivors" Lessons of the Shoah conference at the John Carroll High School, Bel Air, Maryland, Feb 2016
"Oral History of Holocaust Survivors" storytelling events, Goucher College, Baltimore, MD, 2008-2009

PUBLICATIONS

HERSTORY PROJECTS

Interviewing, recording, transcribing, translating and leading the writing of Mirjana Marijanovic's life story, 2012-present
Interviewed, recorded, transcribed, and wrote a narrative poem about Laverne Webb's life story, 2015