Education

• M.F.A. Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX. 2001
• B.F.A. University of North Texas, Denton, TX. 1998

Core Qualifications

• Experience organizing outreach programs to faculty, staff, and students related to diversity, equity, and inclusion
• Experience advising college student leadership development opportunities
• Experience implanting policy and prevention initiatives for student conduct
• Demonstrated experience with fiscal, administrative, and programming leadership in higher education

Expertise

• Proficient in Community Organizing & Building Strategic Alliances
• Establishing Community Outreach Programming Initiatives
• Developing Social Justice Curriculum and Programs
• Event Planning; Design, Budget, Implementation, Assessment, and Fundraising

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Knowledge of trends, issues, and accepted practices relevant to higher education, student affairs, student leadership development, and student well-being
• Excellent diplomacy and interpersonal skills
• Strong planning and organizational skills, accompanied with attention to detail
• Skilled in analyzing and organizing data sets into reports and presentations
• Proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite, Microsoft Office, and Web Design
• Ability to deliver excellent written and oral communication in a manner appropriate to the audience
• Ability to work through processes quickly and prioritize responsibilities
• Knowledge of risk management strategies related to student organizations and campus culture
• Skilled in analyzing, directing, and supporting solutions with underrepresented student leaders

Professional Experience

• Senior Academic Advisor/Business Assistant, School of Art, Texas Tech University, 2020-present
• Artist-in-Residence, Charles Adams Studio Project, School of Art, Studio D, Lubbock, TX.  August 2020 - May 2021
• Program Manager/Advisor, Women’s & Gender Studies, Texas Tech University, 2008 – 2020
• Instructor (Adjunct), Visual Studies & Photography, School of Art, Texas Tech University, 2011, 2013, 2015
• Instructor (Adjunct), Women's Studies Program, Texas Tech University, 2008 – 2009
• Visiting Assistant Professor, Visual Studies, School of Art, Texas Tech University, 2005 - 2007
• Curator/Exhibition Coordinator, Buddy Holly Center, Lubbock, TX. 2002-2005
• Education Coordinator, Buddy Holly Center, Lubbock, TX. 2001-2002
• Lecturer, College of Architecture, Texas Tech University, 2001

Professional Service (Texas Tech University)

Advising

• School of Art, Texas Tech University, 2020-present
• Women’s & Gender Studies, Texas Tech University. Advisor, 2008 - 2020
• Tech Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance, Staff Advisor, 2011-2020
• Texas Tech Association of Creative Writing, President Ruben Quesada, Faculty Advisor, 2007- 2009

University Committees

• Office of LGBTQIA Education & Engagement, Advisory Board 2017-2022
• Women Staff Network, (co-coordinator), President's Gender Equity Council, 2015-2020
• Sexual Assault Awareness Month, host TTU Risk Intervention & Safety Education, 2016
• Diversity Leadership Institute, host Student Council Center and Cross-Cultural Academic Advancement Center, 2015
• Sexual Violence Online Reporting Focus Group, host Dean of Students, 2014-2015
• Sexual Violence Stakeholders Group, host Dean of Students, 2013-2015
• College Diversity Development Grant (review committee for 2012-2013 grant cycle), Division of Institutional Diversity Equity & Community Engagement, 2012
• Presidents Excellence in Diversity and Equity Award (2012 staff review committee), Division of Institutional Diversity Equity & Community Engagement, 2012
• Multicultural Unity Council Committee, Member, Student Diversity Relations, 2009

Academic Consulting Initiatives

• Texas Tech Gay/Straight Alliance, President:  Katie Miller, 2014-2016
• Triota Gamma Nu, President: Benji Romero, 2015-2016
• Texas Tech Black Student Association, President:  Helen Hailu, 2014-2015
• Graduate Feminist Scholars, President: Erika Brooks, Graduate Student, 2010 - 2011
• V-Day Lubbock Coalition, President: Amanda Evans, Graduate Student, 2010 - 2011
• American Association of University Women (AAUW) TTU Student Chapter, President: Elizabeth Onasanya, Undergraduate Student, 2011-2013

Outreach Organizer

• #ItsOnUs National Campaign, Producer/Director, Women's Studies Program, Texas Tech University 2014 - 2015
• "A Herstory of #BlackLivesMatter", Student Panel Discussion, Texas Tech University 2014-2015
• Annual All University Conference on the Advancement of Women in Higher Education, Texas Tech University 2009-2020
• Gender & Gender Identity Colloquium. Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX. Fall 2009 – 2020
• Administrative Support, student lead activism initiatives; "One Billion Rising", "The Vagina Monologues",   "Take Back the Night Rally & March", "The Love Below" performance. 2013- 2020

Networking

• "Raider Break", Inaugural pre-Spring Break event, Texas Tech University Housing 2015
• "Empowering; Talk Back Session", Horn/Knapp Texas Tech University Housing 2015

Publications

• The Future of Feminism (featured cover art). Michigan Feminist Studies Journal, Ann Arbor, MI. 2010
• One Million X’s and Counting, (critical review).  Voices of Art Magazine, Volume 15.1, San Antonio, TX.  2008
• Out In the Mainstream (curator essay). Voices of Art Magazine, Volume 14.3, San Antonio, TX. 2008

Presentations

Conference

• Critical Promiscuity: Visual Artist from LTTR (Lesbians to the Rescue), Big 12 LGBTQIA & Ally Summit, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX. 2021
• From the Trenches to the L Word: Lesbian Art in America Twenty Years Later, Big 12 LGBTQIA & Ally Summit, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX. 2020
• Student Engagement, Debates, Theories, Activism, Innagural GRO-LGTQIA+ Symposium, Texas Christian University, Ft. Worth, TX. 2019
• Nasty Women: From Lubbock to Brussels, the Tinder Art Box for Change, National Women's Studies Association Annual Conference, San Francisco, 2019
• Private Loss, Public Outrage: Revisiting AIDS Activism in the Arts, Big 12 LGBTQIA & Ally Summit, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX. 2019
• Brushfires in the West Texas Social Landscape:  Artistic Interventions, (panelist), The National Conference on LGBT Equality, Creating Change Conference, Houston, TX. 2014
• Gender & Gender Identity (panelist), Diversity Summit, The Division of Institutional Diversity, Equity, and Community Engagement, Merket Alumni Center, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX. 2011
• Beyond Waves of Controversy: Feminist Art Making & Queer Political Forms, (co-presenter) Feminist Action Project, University of Texas, Austin, TX. 2011

Academic

• Coming Up Feminist: The Word Never Spoken, WGS Seminar Class Presentation, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 2019
• Sexual Violence:  How Can Technology Help Prevent Violence?,Chitwood Hall, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 2015
• Women's Equality Day, American Association of University Women, Texas & Lubbock Chapter,  Lubbock TX 2014
• Career Day, (guest speaker) at the Talkington School for Young Women Leaders, Lubbock, TX 2012
• Counseling Diverse Populations for Licensed Professional Counselor, (panelist) PFLAG (Parents Family     & Friends of Lesbians and Gays). College of Education, Texas Tech University. Lubbock, TX 2011
• To Claim Feminist Thinking: Passionate Voices of Change (guest speaker) Hispanic Association of   Women, Lubbock Women’s Club, Lubbock, TX. 2011

Honors & Awards

Academic

• The Ted Jim Dotts Jr. and Betty Shewbert Dotts Ally of the Year, (Award Received), Office of LGBTQIA, Texas Tech University 2018
• Inaugural President's Excellence in Gender Equity Award, Staff, (Award Received) Gender Equity   Council, Texas Tech University 2015
• 9th Annual President’s Excellence in Diversity & Equity Award  - Academic Advisor (Award Received), Division of Institutional Diversity, Equity, and Community Engagement. Texas Tech University 2013

Research

• Artist-in-Residence, Charles Adams Studio Project, School of Art, Studio D, Lubbock, TX. Fall 2020
• “Best in Show” and “Honorable Mention”.  Illuminance (2013) (six photographs) Theme: Experiencing Space. Juror Diana Dopson, artist and historian. Fine Art Gallery, Buddy Holly Center. Lubbock, TX 2013

Research Interests

Integrating historical and emerging feminist practices and theories inspires my research.  By combining bits and pieces of repressed stories I am exploring systematic approaches to defining gender identity, culture and social media through researching propaganda, bias, discrimination, and political agendas.

Funded Research

$6000 CH Foundation Grant through Louise H. Underwood Center for the Arts. Creating a documentary for plainSpeaking: The Artists of the Llano Estacado. 2007

Memberships

Texas PRIDE Impact Fund (TPIF), West Texas Regional Leadership Council, Committee Member. 2020-present

Texas Tech Alumni Association – PRIDE Network, Member, 2020 – present

Consortium of Higher Education LGBT Resource Professionals, Member, 2021-present

Women’s Caucus for Art, Texas Chapter, Member, New York, NY 2021-present

Texas Art Education Association, Member, Dallas, TX. 2021-present

National Art Education Association, Member, Alexandria, VA. 2022-present

chiCrits: Women’s Art Group, Co-founder and Participant, Lubbock TX 2001-present

Red Dot’s Artist Collaborative, Member, Lubbock, TX 2009-present

Curator Experience

• 2024 Pulp Fiction: HERstory is History, (curator/organizer, mixed media and digital photographs) Rock*Paper*Shears Hair Studio and Gallery, Lubbock, TX.
• 2023 Evocative Disobedience: LARGE, LOUD, & FREE, presented by The Vulvas (Katy Ballard, Tricia Earl, and Leslie Sotomayor) Lubbock Art Depot, Lubbock, TX. 
• 2017 Nasty Women: Lubbock Art Exhibition, (curator/organizer, two digital photographs) Texas Tech University, School of Art Satellite Gallery, Lubbock, TX
• 2007 Out in the Mainstream: Queering the Social Landscape, (curator/organizer, two digital photographs) Icehouse, Louise H. Underwood Center for the Arts, Lubbock, TX
• 2007 "Y, Que: Queer Art Made in Texas" curator, Harmony Hammond. (co-organizer), School of Art, Landmark Arts, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX

Residency

• Charles Adams Studio Project - Studio D (School of Art, Texas Tech University). Lubbock TX. September 2020 - May 2021
   

Artistic Exhibitions | Solo/Juried/Invitational  
Actively exhibiting artwork from 1998 – present

Solo Exhibitions

• 2021 "See Jane": The Forth Wave, 5&J Gallery, Charles Adams Studio Project, Lubbock, TX
• 2006 Friend of Dorothy:  A Queer Sensibility, (digital photography/video installation) Fain Fine Arts Gallery, Midwestern State University, Wichita Falls, TX 
• 2006 On Parade: Celebrating the Way Out, (digital photography/video installation) Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts, Lubbock, TX 
• 2001 Unexpected Awareness, (black and white photography/video installation) Studio Gallery, Landmark Arts Gallery, Lubbock, TX 

Juried Exhibitions

• 2019 CLIP: An International Exhibit of Works on Paper, Juried by Ghislaine Fremaux, artist/educator/artist-in-residence. Charles Adams Studio Project, Lubbock, TX. 
• 2013 Illuminance (six photographs) Awards: One "Best in Show" and one "Honorable Mention".  Theme; Experiencing Space.  Juror Diana Dopson, artist and historian.  Buddy Holly Center, Fine Art Gallery, Lubbock TX
• 2010 Reproductive Justice Art Extravaganza (Sponsored by Women’s Medical Fund) Always by Design, Philadelphia, PA, Curator(s): ten-person event committee is co-chaired by Steph Herold and Vanessa Zoltan.
• 2010 Self Searching: The Art of Self Portraiture (one black & white photograph) Juror: Aline Smithson, Gallery Editor for Light Leaks Magazine, PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury VT
• 2009 Seven-State Biennial (one digital photograph) USAO Art Gallery Charles Goddard Center Chickasha, Ardmore, Oklahoma Curator: Sara Waters.
• 2008 Second Annual Lesbian Alliance Art Show, (three digital photographs), Milwaukee LGBT Community Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
• 2008 Deep in the Art of Texas, (one digital photograph) 30th Annual Lubbock Arts Festival, Juror Craig Thomas, free-lance artist living in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, Lubbock Memorial Civic Center, Lubbock, TX
• 2008 Art Show Rodeo, (two digital photographs) Juror Greg Johnson of the Southwest School of Art, San Antonio, TX, Gilrose Studios, Wichita Falls, TX
• 2007 Art in the Garden, (one digital photograph) 29th Annual Lubbock Arts Festival, Juror Ann Templeton, artist/author/educator, Lubbock Memorial Civic Center, Lubbock, TX
• 2006 National Juried Photography Exhibition, (one digital photograph) 12 12 Gallery, Juror Stephen Perloff, founder and editor of The Photo Review, Richmond, VA
• 2006 Diversity and Solidarity, (one digital photograph) Identity House, I-Gallery, Juror Eric Allen Carter, Associate Curator, I-Gallery New York, NY
• 2006 West Texas Photography Society of Lubbock, (three digital photographs) Juror Roy Flukinger, Senior Research Curator of Photography, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center in Austin, Lubbock, TX
• 2005 Illuminance, (one black and white photograph) Juror Keith Carter, Internationally recognized photographer and educator, Buddy Holly Center, Fine Art Gallery, Lubbock, TX
• 2001 HCP Juried Membership Exhibition, (one black and white photograph) Juror Clint Wilour, Director and Curator of the Galveston Arts Center, Houston, TX
• 2001 McNeese National Works On Paper, (one black and white photograph) 14th Annual Works On Paper, Juror William Fagaly, Director of Art at the New Orleans Museum of Art, McNeese State University Abercrombie Gallery, Lake Charles, LA
• 1999 Photowork '99, (one black and white documentary photograph) Twelfth Annual National Juried Photography Exhibition, Curated by Howard Greenberg, Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY

Invitational Exhibitions

• 2023 Mundo Latino: Day of the Dead visual art exhibition by Arttitude. State Fair of Texas Women's Museum. Dallas, TX.
• 2022 The Work of Women, (one digital photograph), Women's Caucus for Art - Texas Chapter, Frost, Brown, Todd LLC, Houston, TX.
• 2022 Mentors and Methods, (three digital photographs), curated by John Chinn, Fine Arts Gallery, Buddy Holly Center, Lubbock, TX.
• 2021 Panhandle Protest (mixed media posters), East Lubbock Art House, Lubbock, TX.
• 2012 In Search of Common Ground (three digital photographs) In Between Gallery, Slaton, TX.
• 2011 Deconstructed Memory (four digital photographs) Louise H. Underwood Center for the Arts, Lubbock, TX.
• 2011 Retrospective 25 (three digital photographs) Featured 50 regional artist working in various mediums, Fine Art Gallery, Buddy Holly Center, Lubbock TX
• 2011 “Off Center” (five digital photographs) Architecture Library, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX.
• 2010  “Off Center” (five digital photographs) Abrahams Gallery, Wayland Baptist University, Plainview TX.
• 2010 Contemplo: Regarding Nature (three digital photographs) Austin College, Ida Green Gallery, Sherman, TX.
• 2009 Contemplo: Regarding Nature (three digital photographs) RENDr Art Gallery, Lubbock, TX.
• 2009 Contemplo: Regarding Nature (three digital photographs) WaterSpace South, Slaton, TX.
• 2007 ¿Y QUÉ? Queer Art Made in Texas. (three digital photographs) Curated by artist/activist/author Harmony Hammond. Landmark Arts Gallery, School of Art, Texas Tech University. Lubbock, TX.
• 2007 Second Annual New West: “Women Who Have Made the West their Home.” (two digital photographs and one video installation)  Curated by Future Akins-Tillet and Dawn Wolfe-Taylor. Louise H. Underwood Center for the Arts, Lubbock, TX.
• 2006 Genderland:  An Interactive Collaboration, (one video installation) Featured 25 local artist working in various mediums including video and performance, Icehouse, Louise H. Underwood Center for the Arts, Lubbock, TX.
• 2001-2008 Celebracion, Annual invitational exhibition about Dia de los Muertos.  Buddy Holly Center, Lubbock, TX
• 2004  Artist in Action, Charity Exhibition for Lubbock Children’s Hospital Program, Coordinator Kara Donatelli, Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts, Lubbock, TX.
• 2004 The National Arts Program, (exhibition) Garden Arts Center of Lubbock, Lubbock, TX.
• 2003 Artist in Action, Charity Exhibition for the Haven Animal Shelter, Coordinator Kara Donatelli, Garden and Arts Center, Lubbock, TX.
• 2003 Photographers Under 30, Curator Marcus Weekley, Regional Art Center, Lubbock, TX.
• 2001 The Tenth Annual Matrilineage Symposium: Women, Art, and Change, Spark Gallery, Syracuse University; Syracuse, NY
• 2001 Artist in Action, Charity Exhibition and Performance for Michelle Unruh, Coordinator Kara Donatelli and Suzanne Hagood, Garden and Arts Center, Lubbock, TX.
• 2001 MFA Graduates, Present and Past.  Landmark Arts, Studio Gallery, Lubbock, TX.

Non-Juried Exhibitions

• 2017 Nasty Women Art Exhibition, (curator/organizer, two digital photographs) Texas Tech University, School of Art Satellite Gallery, Lubbock, TX
• 2014 The Red Dots Artist Collective, (two digital photographs), Dallas Library, Dallas TX
• 2014 The Red Dots Artist Collective, (three digital photographs), TAD Gallery, Denton, TX
• 2010 chiCrits: Bird is the Word, (five digital photographs) Louise H. Underwood Center for the Arts, Lubbock, TX
• 2008 40th Anniversary SOA Alumni Online Exhibition, (three digital photographs) Texas Tech University School of Art, Landmark Arts Gallery, Lubbock, TX
• 2008 Rivers & Bridges International Mail Art Exhibit (two mail art pieces), Laredo Community College, Laredo, TX
• 2006 Third Annual SNAP TO GRID:  the UN-Juried show, (one digital photograph) Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Director Rex Bruce, Los Angeles, CA
• 2006 chiCrits: Femoirs, (two digital photographs/two paintings) Art Depot, Lubbock, TX
• 2005 chiCrits:  Dia de los Muertos, (group installation) International Cultural Center, Lubbock, TX
• 2005 chiCrits: Legs & Breasts, (six digital photographs) Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts, Lubbock, TX
• 2005 Under the Big Top, (three digital photographs) Lubbock Arts Festival, Texas Tech University Alumni Gallery, Lubbock Memorial Civic Center, Lubbock, TX
• 2004 Propaganda, (one digital photograph) An exhibit of over 25 local and national artist, Juried by Dennis Fehr and Future Akins, On Q, Art Alternative, Lubbock, TX
• 2004 chiCrits: Making Tracks, (four digital photographs) Studio Gallery of Landmark Arts Gallery, Texas Tech University School of Art, Lubbock, TX
• 2004 From the Flatlands, (two digital photographs) Featured over 10 Lubbock Artist, Curator: Marie Weichman, Studio Gallery, Houston, TX
• 2003 chiCrits: Hatchings, (two collages) Studio Gallery of Landmark Arts Gallery, Texas Tech University School of Art, Lubbock, TX
• 2003 All Souls: Dia de los Muertos, (one collage) On Q, Art Alternative, Lubbock, TX
• 2002 Recent Works, (one monoprint) Presented by Working Artist of Lubbock. Klusoz, Lubbock, TX
• 2002 chiCrits: First Sightings, (two monoprints) Llano Estacado Institute for the Performing Arts, Lubbock, TX
• 2000 Perception of Reality:  Some Thoughts On Why, (two black and white photographs) South Gallery, Landmark Arts: The Galleries of Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
• 2000 Singular Plethicon: A Mixed Bag.  (four black and white documentary photographs) MFA Candidate Exhibition. South Gallery, Landmark Arts: The Galleries of Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
• 2000 16th Annual Caprock Photographers Association, (four black and white documentary photographs), Algerita Art Center, Post, TX
• 2000 On The Wall / Off The Wall, (two black and white photographs), Presented by Working Artist of Lubbock. 28 local artist exhibition, Godbold Cultural Center, Lubbock, TX
• 1999 Diverse Views, MFA Candidate Exhibition, (two black and white photographs) Studio Gallery, Landmark Arts: The Galleries of Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
• 1999 Pulp Fiction, A Women's Collaborative. (installation), Featuring13 local women artist, One Star Gallery, Lubbock, TX
• 1999 Artists Upstarts of West Texas. (one black and white documentary photograph)  Lubbock Fine Arts Festival. 1999, Lubbock TX
• 1999 Fact, Fiction, and Fantasy, The Human Experience, (one black and white documentary photograph), The Center for Contemporary Art, Abilene, TX
• 1998 KMFA, All MFA All the Time, MFA Candidate Exhibition, (two black and white photographs), Studio Gallery, Landmark Arts: The Galleries of Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
• 1999 Goldie Lox & Bagels. Collaborative video installation with artists Kara Donatelli and Suzanne Hagood, Studio Gallery, Landmark Arts: The Galleries of Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
• 1998 New Work, MFA Candidate Exhibition, (two black and white documentary photographs), Studio Gallery, Landmark Arts: The Galleries of Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
• 1998 14th Annual Caprock Photographers Association, (four black and white documentary photographs), Algerita Art Center, Post, TX
• 1998 SPE Student Exhibition, (one black white documentary photograph), Society of Photographic Education.  University of Mississippi, Starkeville, MS