About the Director of the Coretta Scott King Center

HONORS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN THE LAST FIVE YEARS

• Co-chair 2006 MLK Planning Committee, Washington State University
• Member Board of Directors for (ABCC) National Association for Black Cultural Centers (2003-present)
• President’s Award for Leadership and Service 2005 Washington State University
• Presenter for National Education for Women’s Leadership summer Institute Summer 2005
• Presenter for National Association of Black Cultural Centers 2005 Annual Conference, Lexington, KY, Program Title: Speaking of Language Arts: On Locating a Place for Academic Spoken Word
• National Presenter for ABCC (National Association for Black Cultural Centers) annual conference, 2004, Bloomington, IN, Program Title: Divorcing the Doctor: a pilot study
• National Presenter for the First Annual Globalization and Diversity Conference 2004, WSU, Program Title: Exploring Coping Strategies Among Multicultural Women in Higher Education: When the Glass Slipper Won’t Fit
• National Presenter for the Second Annual Globalization and Diversity Conference 2005, WSU, Program Title: For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Spoken Word when a Ph.D. Isn’t Enough: Using Autoethnographic Performance to Examine the Intersections of Race and Gender
• Second Place Winner of Wiley Research Exposition 2005, Washington State University
  Presenter for Graduate Research Symposium 2003-2005, WSU, Program Title: Survival Strategies and Kit Used by African-American Students in a PWI, Program Title: Changing Lanes: Shifting Paradigms for Educating Urban Youth
  Advisor and Advocate for Black Women’s Caucus 2003-present, WSU
• Advisor and Advocate for Coalition for Women Students 2004-present, WSU
• Member of the Washington State University Conduct Board 2003-present
• Keynote speaker for Department of Residence Life Awards Banquet, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, May 2003
• Nominated and Selected to attend Graduate Public Policy Seminar, Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE), 2004, Kansas City, MO
• Regional Presenter for first annual GLBT student conference “Out in the Middle of the Wheatfield”, Washington State University, Pullman Washington, 2004-Creative strategies for recruiting allies of color
• Nominated and Selected to attend David L. Clark National Graduate Student Research
• Seminar in Educational Administration and Policy, 2005, Montreal, Canada
• Keynote speaker for Upward Bound Award Banquet, Emporia State University, Emporia, KS, May 2002
• Member Board of Directors YWCA of WSU
• Member of American Council on Education (ACE)
• Member of Chi Sigma Iota (Counseling Honor Society)
• Member of ACPA ( American College Personnel Association) standing committee for multicultural issues
• Member of ASHE (Association for the Study of Higher Education)
• President Sexual Violence Task Force 2003-2004, Washington State University

Personal Accomplishments

• Foster parent for two years for two special needs youth in Pullman, WA community
• Ph.D. Candidate in Higher Education with an emphasis on Cultural Studies and Social Thought in Education, Graduation expected May 2006
• Launched the Prestigious Last Lecture Series as part of the programming efforts for the Talmadge Anderson Heritage House
• Actor in first campus production of The Vagina Monologues at WSU
• Served as PI for MLK Grant from Hands On Network
• Advisor for the Society of spoken Word Artist
• Presenter for First Annual Multicultural Leadership Retreat, 2005, WSU