PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

I have a background in education, comedy and writing. I’ve been a high school Special Education and ELA teacher for the past nine years, but I’m taking some time off to nurture my newborn son and my creativity. I completed the full improv comedy program at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater and I’ve taken Improv/Sketch Comedy classes at the Magnet Theater. I wrote sketches that were performed in the Magnet’s MOXIE Showcase for female/nonbinary performers in 2018 and 2021. My favorite pieces to write are short, non-fiction essays. Some topics I cover: love, womanhood, coming of age, body image, mental illness and grief. My inspirations are David Sedaris, Ottessa Moshfegh and Ilana Glazer

WORK EXPERIENCE

THE NYC LAB SCHOOL, New York, NY                           May 2015-June 2024

Special Education/ELA Teacher

● Writing and modifying lesson plans, writing Individualized Education Plans, teaching students, and grading assignments.

●  Served as the Special Education Liaison at Lab for 5 years.

● Gathering data on students’ reading level then conducting reading intervention for students not reading at grade-level using the REWARDS reading program.  Giving 1:1 intervention as well as small group instruction. 

● Co-teaching AP Composition and Language, Executive Functioning, and Social Development Intervention. Collaborating with General Education teachers to provide support for students with disabilities. 

● Proud leader of Women’s Empowerment and Body Positivity club for 5 years. 

BRANDED CAMP SERVICES, Austin, TX                                       Summer 2021

Counselor

● Responsible for the well-being and safety of campers. Organized bonding and ice-breaker activities. Communicated regularly with parents.                           

EDUCATION

MARYLAND SMITH via EdX Remote/Online February, 2024

Certificate Program in Digital Marketing

● Courses in Fundamentals of Digital Marketing, Online Advertising and Social Media, Digital Marketing Analytics: Tools and Techniques, and Digital Customer Analytics. 

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY New York, NY

M.A. in English Education, grades 7-12                 January, 2015

● Coursework in multimodal literacies, sensory processing and autism, special education, curriculum research, adolescent development, teaching reading in the English classroom, drug and alcohol awareness.

● Full-time student teaching.

THE NEW SCHOOL New York, NY

Liberal Arts B.A. with a major in Literary Studies                     May, 2012          

● Coursework in contemporary British literature, political theory, education, Anglophone poetry, literary theory, history of the Novel, Dante’s Divine Comedy, psychology, Emerson and Thoreau.

● Served as an Academic Fellow (an assistant teacher for a literary theory course).