Engagement with local communities is central to my work as both teacher and scholar.

Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless (Spring 2021)

TBA

MORTAR (Fall 2020, Spring 2022)

TBA

Purdue Center for Advocacy, Response, and Education (Spring 2016)

As a graduate student at Purdue University, one of my most important community engagement projects was a collaboration with the Center for Advocacy, Response, and Education (CARE). Founded in October 2015, CARE is a sexual violence awareness and education center that has long been needed at Purdue, the last Big Ten school to establish such a center. At the suggestion of a colleague, I organized a collaboration between four professional writing instructors with a total of seven sections of either business or technical writing between them. The four of us met with CARE's Assistant Directors to determine the center's needs in advance of its formal launch at a permanent location in fall 2016. Each instructor chose one of CARE's critical needs as the core of an assignment sequence that would ultimately produce a tangible deliverable for the center. Throughout the semester the four instructors met regularly with the CARE staff and communicated frequently with one another to ensure that each course was both fulfilling the targeted need and maintaining enough separation. Final projects include materials for training and workshops, research on best practices for addressing issues of sexual violence on college campuses, marketing and engagement campaigns, and a revised and expanded CARE website based on usability research.