Diversity Programs
Johns Hopkins Humanities Collaboratory
In Summer 2018, I was a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow for the Mellon-funded JHU Humanities Collaboratory Program joining undergraduate students from the Community College of Baltimore County and several HBCUs with researchers from Johns Hopkins. The program lent transparency to the research process for young scholars in an experimental, digital humanities “(col)laboratory” workspace. By modeling search techniques and demystifying scholarly protocol, I mentored and guided students through the organizational and analytical obstacles of intensive research. The program culminated with student presentations at the annual Leadership Alliance National Symposium in Hartford, Connecticut.
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France Terre d’Asile
Sponsored by Florida State’s Center for the Advancement of Human Rights, my primary task as a summer intern was to teach basic French-language classes to asylum seekers and refugees in Saint-Denis for the French NGO France terre d’asile. I also provided translation and interpretation services (French-English), conducted research on human trafficking in France, and prepared legal documents for use at the French National Court of the Right to Asylum. Through this experience, I witnessed first-hand how language learning remains intimately connected to human rights, migration, and social justice.
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Teaching Abroad
Embracing Science & the Humanities in Paris
This Johns Hopkins Intersession course, to be taught on-site in Paris, was designed to unite students and scholars from the humanities and the sciences, with readings centered around concepts conducive to interdisciplinary dialogue: curiosity, harmony, wonder, individuality, and creativity. As program assistant to Dr. Kristin Cook-Gailloud, I helped organize our itinerary in France and led discussions as a guest lecturer. Regrettably, the trip to Paris was canceled due to the 2015 Charlie Hebdo attacks, necessitating that we re-situate the course around site visits in Baltimore and New York City.
Teaching Assistant Program in France
From 2008-2010, I was an English-language instructor and teaching assistant for the TAPIF program sponsored by the French Ministry of Education. As an assistante de langue, I taught and assisted teachers in English-language classes for French schoolchildren (CE1–CM2) at the école primaire level in 4 local schools in Bar-le-Duc, France (Académie de Nancy-Metz). During this two-year stint in Lorraine, I also lived with two different French families as an au pair.