Portfolio

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vILT: Action Mapping Strategy Sessions
I designed and facilitated a social learning space and toolkit for participants to practice skills in needs analysis, training design, collaboration, and human performance improvement consulting.

CASE STUDY

Black starry sky with hot pink text box that reads A BRIEF HISTORY OF GENDER. Three people are pictured in front of a hot pink timeline with blue stars: a South Asian person with a bindi and pink and orange outfit, peeling a banana; a black and white photo of Zuni artist We’wha wearing two buns and a traditional dress with geometric patterns while holding a basket; and Mexican artist Lukas Avendaño wearing a long, hot pink skirt, no shirt, and a hot pink flowered headband. White text box reads “The gender binary is a relatively new concept in human history. Muxes in Mexico, two-spirit Indigenous people in North America, waria in Indonesia, mudoko dako in Uganda, and chibados in Angola are just a few examples of the many people who have lived, and continue to live, beyond the binary.”

eLearning: A Brief
History of Gender
I used Articulate Storyline and Adobe Photoshop to create this interactive timeline, resource list, and discussion guide as part of a larger campaign to include and support trans and gender expansive people.

A couple sit on the floor, watching a laptop and smiling.

eLearning: Why You Should Always Caption Your Content
I used Articulate Rise to create this short, empathetic course and resource guide as a call to action for content creators to create more high-quality, accessible work.

Interactive infographic with black background, white text, yellow images, and indigo title box. Title reads, Instructional Design for Real-World Impact. Tabs read Doing > Knowing. Learning is Experience. Learning is Ongoing. Learning is Interactive. Resources > Memorization.

Instructional Design for Real-World Impact
I used Articulate Storyline to create this interactive infographic on best practices for pragmatic, holistic, outcomes-based learning and development.

Miss Major, a Black trans woman with gray hair and a bright multicolored jacket. Quote reads,

DEIJB Performance Improvement Campaign
Download this proposal for a sample of my holistic, results-based approach to learning and performance improvement, evaluation, accessibility, and project management.

Performance Improvement Campaign
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Publications

The following links feature my writing; other colleagues did the layout and design.

A white woman with long hair, a leopard-print top, and spiral earrings stands in front of a window full of plants holding a sign that reads

Domestic Workers
Save Lives
Domestic Employers (a partner of National Domestic Workers Alliance) commissioned me to interview experts and create this photo essay, analysis, and call to action on reproductive labor and the caring economy.

Approximately 40 Latine and Indigenous parents and children stand smiling for a group picture in a park, with leafy trees in the background.

El Amor de la Comunidad
I conducted bilingual interviews with Chicago (im)migrant parent educators and community organizers and created this photo essay that was published by Transition Network and republished by Resilience.

A four-panel collage with activists of all ages standing in front of government buildings in protest; holding a baby; and holding signs that say Free Marissa Now.

From Self-Defense to Self-Determination
I interviewed Aleta Alston-Touré about the Free Marissa movement, racial justice activism, and forming the first US intentional community led by Black women. It was published by Transition Network. (Note: some of the formatting has been lost and the images are no longer visible. For an unformatted, unpublished version with original photos, please see this document.)

A group of people of all ages, including toddlers in strollers, stand in front of a building wearing winter coats and holding signs that say

Come For the Fun, Stay for the Revolution
I created this roundup about grassroots community organizers who occupy public spaces to bring intergenerational art and programming to people of all ages. It was published by Transition Network and republished by Resilience.

A sepia image of a tan house with brown trim, flat, barren land, and a brown sky after a dust storm.

Demeter in Kansas
My novel-in-progress Inside the Wow blends research about the Dust Bowl and 1930s class struggles with queer, trans, neurodivergent, and burlesque histories. This excerpt won second prize in the 2016 Literal Latte Fiction Award, and I received a generous arts residency to work on it from Blue Mountain Center in New York.

Awards and Distinctions

Columbia College Chicago Follett Fellowship for outstanding writing, 2012-2015

Blue Mountain Center 4-week residencies in New York for "fine work that evinces social and ecological concern," 2015 & 2017

Granum Foundation Prize longlist for excellence in writing, 2022

First Prize, Chicago Newberry Bughouse Square Soapbox Speech Award, 2016

First Prize, Chicago Guild Complex Prose Award, 2014

Second Prize, Literal Latte Fiction Award for historical fiction, 2016

Finalist, Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Award, 2009

For more about my background in learning, development, leadership, and community organizing - and the curiosity, collaborative spirit, and passion for a good challenge that drive my work - see the About page:

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