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Before earning my master's in Applied Linguistics from Columbia University Teachers College, much of my professional career involved English Language Teaching, which I have done domestically and internationally. I have diverse experience in education, research, administration, and publishing/editing. My most important administrative experience was developed during my 2016 internship at the United Nations' Language Learning Services Unit, where I was proud to impact language education at offices throughout the U.N. My duties included: drafting documents such as memos and articles; maintaining a shared email address and social media webpage; corresponding professionally with stakeholders and colleagues; taking weekly meeting minutes. Outside of my own team, I developed the English team’s pilot placement test.

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During my time in undergrad, I was a staff writer and music editor at my university's newspaper. There, I conducted interviews and submitted feature stories at least once a week. I also gained journalistic experience interning at the United Way, City Paper Baltimore, and 98 Rock.

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I've continued my journalistic career through music blogging. In addition to this music journalism experience, my proofreading and copyediting skills have been applied professionally as a freelance editor for publishers and vendors such as Learning Mate, Pearson, Second Language Testing, Inc, Booklinks and Cambridge University Press. 

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