Management Educator & Social Scientist
ABOUT ME
For 13+ years, I have studied people in organizations: how we make meaning, share understanding, and pursue collective goals through communication. My work explores how individuals and groups connect, collaborate, and manage resources as they engage in resilience and overcome difficult circumstances, especially in workplace and disaster settings.
I aim to empower people and communities to improve their everyday lives by fostering curiosity, strengthening critical thinking and communication skills, and translating academic scholarship into usable insights. In the classroom, I work with undergraduate and graduate students to help them build stronger arguments and become more confident and capable writers, speakers, and organizational members.
DETAILS
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Prefixes: Dr. or Professor
Home: Wisconsin → Indiana → California
Favorite Movie: A League of Their Own
​Favorite Music for Writing: Lana Del Rey, Bon Iver, Fetty Wap, Brooks & Dunn, and the Harry Potter Soundtrack
EDUCATION
2021
PH.D. - ORGANIZATIONAL COMMUNICATION
PURDUE UNIVERSITY
Brian Lamb School of Communication
2017
M.A. - COMMUNICATION
(ORGANIZATIONAL)
UW-MILWAUKEE
Department of Communication
2015
B.A. - COMMUNICATION
(ORGANIZATIONAL)
UW - LA CROSSE
Department of Communication Studies
EXPERIENCE
California State University - San Bernardino
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
MANAGEMENT
Jack H. Brown College of Business and Public Administration
Purdue University
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
COM 114
I provided training for new instructors and helped oversee roughly 60 sections per semester of COM 114: Fundamentals of Speech Communication. I also served as peer mentor for new instructors and as a consultant in the COM Help Center.
National Science Foundation
RESEARCH ASSISTANT
CRISP & HSEES
I serve on two interdisciplinary, multi-university research projects funded by the National Science Foundation to study hurricane evacuation, resilience, and recovery particularly at the intersection of physical and social networks.
Purdue University & UW-Milwaukee
TEACHING ASSISTANT
ORGANIZATIONAL COM
I taught 8 sections as the instructor of record at Purdue: COM 114, Small Group Com, and Organizational Com. At UW-Milwaukee, I was an instructor for 4 sections and a lab instructor for 6 sections of Business and Professional Communication.