I am a performance artist<->scholar<->practitioner<->coach who engages in critical ethnographic methods, spoken-word roots, and remixed performance techniques.
With these tools, I culturally, aesthetically, and collaboratively excavate how marginalized publics foster community and reach dominant publics through live, digital, and ritual performances.
Recent News:
-2024 International Tour of Burnt City starts in Santa Rosa, CA (05.23.2024)
-Recipient of 2024 CSCA Outstanding Article in Performance Studies Award
-Interview in Al Jazeera English about the Iron Sheik’s passing (06.07.2023).
Recent Recognition and Honors
CSCA Outstanding Article in Performance Studies
Performance Studies & Autoethnography Division
2024
NCFA New Coach of the Year Award
Northern California Forensics Association
2023
NCA Best Journal Article Award--Ethnography
National Communication Association Ethnography Division
IAANI Outstanding Visual Project Award
International Association of Autoethnography and Narrative Inquiry
CSCA Outstanding Article in Autoethnography
Performance Studies & Autoethnography Division
2022
AAA New Directions Award: Individual
American Anthropological Association General Anthropology Division
Marion Kleinau National Scripting Award
SIU Carbondale Department of Communication Studies
ICA Outstanding New Teacher Award
Iowa Communication Association
LSC Adjunct Faculty Excellence Award
Lone Star College—University Park
2021
2020 NCA Best Dissertation Award--Ethnography
National Communication Association Ethnography Division
2018 Marie J. Robinson Outstanding Graduate Student in Performance Studies, NCA Performance Studies Division
2016 AFA Outstanding New Forensics Coach Award
American Forensics Association
2013 ICA Outstanding Adjunct Teacher Award
Iowa Communication Association