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Responsible for all Upper School Library services and resources including research and reference, collection and catalog management, circulation, programming, LibGuides, and displays.
Instruct and advise students and faculty, individually and in groups, on all aspects of academic research.
Devise and implement year-long ninth grade media literacy curriculum, with emphasis on ethical scholarship, digital privacy, and news fact-checking.
Lead diversity and justice initiatives through programming, collection, instruction, and displays.
Cataloged rich controlled-term and descriptive metadata on eighteenth century novels using MARCXML to support traditional and computational scholarship.
Trained new staff in END workflows and updated instructional materials to reflect detailed cataloging protocols.
Remediated existing END dataset and catalog records to enhance its accuracy, consistency, and utility using GitHub and MarcEdit.
Handled and paged rare books and special collection materials.
Wrote an introductory guide to digital scholarship released as a series of blog posts on the LoC website.
Worked with Kluge Fellows to enhance their research with digital scholarship tools
Solicited participants for a series of lightning talks for annual Collections As Data conference
Helped students to form project and paper topics, find and acquire relevant materials, and more proficiently engage Swarthmore’s catalog and research aids during weekly hours at McCabe Library’s reference desk.
Participate in biweekly specialized trainings and workshops with Swarthmore’s librarians.
Practiced full-stack web development through personal projects.
Participated in weekly discussions on readings and issues related to digital environments and the internet.
Learned about the field of librarianship through projects, weekly seminars, and fieldtrips.
Engaged in discussions about access, privacy, copyright, etc.
Developed and taught a comprehensive, personalized homeschooling curriculum to meet the academic needs of three third and fifth graders during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Incorporated movement, theater, art, baking, hands-on projects and field trips into weekly routine.
Emphasized social justice education, information literacy, and current events in our social science learning.
Worked with a team to develop a Reggio Emilia-inspired curriculum centered on self-directed, play-based, outdoor learning for a classroom of 21 three- and four-year-olds.
Used classroom observations to create written documentation of student learning and individualized plans for continued growth.
Developed strong relationships with my students and their families, through in-person communications and weekly email newsletters.
Planned and taught engaging and integrated lessons to third and fourth grade students in math, reading, writing, and social science, both independently and in collaboration with co-teachers.
Employed Responsive Classroom strategies, among others, to emphasize social-emotional development, growth mindset, and academic learning.
Emphasized play, inquiry-based and student-centered learning, and hands-on, outdoor experiences.
Provided academic support and homework help to K-8 students in Chester, PA.
Functioned as point person for twelve other student tutors at Unity Center, an after school care facility.
Served as mediator between student tutors, the tutoring site, and the Dare2Soar lead coordinators.
Manage board of seven editors, set publishing schedule, and communicate with printers for student-run quarterly general interest magazine
Use (and teach incoming editors to use) InDesign to layout articles and photo essays
Solicit, edit, and copyedit articles
The walk - April 2018 (personal essay)
Am I teenager-ing enough? - April 2015 (personal essay)
Wrote biweekly about Swarthmore's social scene and student events for my column, Swassip Girl.
‘Tis the season for Crum hikes and beach days - April 2016
Screw your roommate from the sidelines - February 2016
Moving off-campus to find a new life, and a fridge full of kale - February 2016
Reflecting on what the Matchbox might be like, maybe - December 2015
Living the alt music dream at olde club - November 2015
Interrogating how we party in the post-save-pub-nite era - October 2015
Navigating DisOrientation, armed with PJs and a fannypack - September 2015
What a difference a year at Swat makes - September 2015
Digital Scholarship Resource Guide - Library of Congress - Summer 2017
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