The Educator

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Teaching has been a longtime passion of mine. After working as a reading and writing tutor in college, I began teaching college students as a Graduate Student Instructor at the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor from where I earned my MFA. I then taught college courses at the Rutgers University Writers House, Metropolitan College of New York, and elsewhere in the tristate area before taking a position at New York University. At NYU, I taught dramatic writing courses and taught as a member of its arts faculty. At NYU I also acted as a graduate student thesis and colloquium adviser, and as a mentor in several seasons of the Gallatin Summer Theater Lab, before becoming an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing and Playwriting at Medgar Evers College, a senior college of the City University of New York. I also teach at the CUNY Grad Center and I’ve recently taught undergraduate and graduate students in summer programs at Zhejiang University of Technology and Tongji University in China and elsewhere abroad.

Select Panels & Presentations

  • Letras Latinas Reading at the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival, 2020, Virtual

  • The Future of Latinx Studies, The Past, Present, and Future of Latinx Studies at Northwestern University, 2019, Evanston, IL

  • The Impact of Race and Politics on Contemporary Black Playwrights, Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP), 2019 in Portland, OR

  • Poets Out of Place, Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP), 2019 in Portland, OR

  • Beyond the BluePrint: A Poetry Reading and Panel Discussion on The Reconstructed Self at Thinking Is Presence, University of Arizona, Poetry Center, 2017 in Tucson, AZ

  • CantoMundo Latino/a Poetry Reading at the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival, 2016 in Newark, NJ

  • Queer Pan-Latinidad: A LBGTQ Latino/a Poetry Reading and Panel at the Split This Rock! Poetry Festival, 2016 in Washington, D.C.

  • Hidden Poetry: How Does Poetry Help People Who Carry The Hidden Wounds of War and Trauma? A Panel Discussion and Workshop, 2015 at Ohio University in Athens, OH

  • No Longer at Ease: The Uneasy Relationship Between the Poet and Emperor, The Chinua Achebe Colloquium, African Literature as Restoration: Chinua Achebe as Teacher, Brown University, 2014 in Providence, RI

  • Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Arts Administrators of Color, Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP), 2013 in Boston, MA

  • PSA Presents Mary Jo Bang and Ed Roberson, Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP), 2012 in Chicago, IL

  • My Voice, Wide as the Sun: Preparing to Teach Creative Writing in K-12 Classrooms, Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP), 2009 in Chicago, IL

  • Forum: Surviving Katrina and Rita in Houston: An Update/Survivre après Katrina et Rita à Houston: Une mise à jour, American Folklore Society Annual Meeting & Folklore Studies Association of Canada, 2007 in Quebec City, Canada