Academic Service

  • New Student Orientation “Professor’s Perspective” Speaker, Summer 2022

  • Faculty Advisory Committee, Department of Gender Studies, 2021- Present

  • Conference Chair, Black Women’s Studies Association, 2020-present

  • Reviewer, Journal of Lesbian Studies

  • Chair, Provost and Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs Search Committee, Spring 2015

  • President’s Council on the Status of Women, 2014-2015

  • Chair, Purdue American Studies Symposium Committee, 2013-2014

  • Member, Interdisciplinary Graduate Programs Student Advisory Board, 2013-2014

  • President, American Studies Graduate Student Organization, 2012-2013

  • Member, LGBT Studies Advisory Committee, 2011-2014

  • Program Representative, GradSEA, 2011-2012

  • Officer, American Studies Graduate Student Organization, 2010-2011

  • Co-chair, Purdue American Studies Symposium Committee, 2009-2010

Community Service

  • North Carolina Writers’ Network, Board of Trustees, 2020-2022

  • Board of Trustees, Chairperson, LGBT Center of Raleigh, 2018-2019 

  • Board of Trustees, LGBT Center of Raleigh, 2017-2018

  • Founding Board Member, Bay Area Lesbian Archives, 2014-2016

Public Engagement

Literary arts

  • Literary Arts Panelist, National Endowment for the Arts, 2021

  • Black Lesbian Literary Collective, Co-Founder, 2016-present

  • Reviewer, The Lesbrary, 2016-2017

  • Contributing Writer, Elixher Magazine, 2012-2013