Service
This page highlights examples of my recent service commitments for the department, college, university, discipline of geography, and community/general public.
Department of Geography & Anthropology
- Faculty Advisor, Mu Upsilon Chapter of Gamma Theta Upsilon International Geographical Honor Society
- Faculty Senator for Department of Geography & Anthropology in the KSU Faculty Senate
- Website and Social Media (Facebook, Twitter) Coordinator for the Department
College of Humanities and Social Sciences
- International Committee (Department of Geography and Anthropology representative), College of Humanities and Social Sciences
- Co-Organizer, Places and Spaces: Mapping Science exhibit (November-December 2019)
Kennesaw State University
- Member, Year of Greece (2020-2021) Planning Committee
- Organizer and Moderator, "Geography Awareness Week: A Discussion on the Geography of Civil Rights Movements," during Geography Awareness Week (November 2017)
- Co-Organizer, "Talk to Strangers: Creating a Welcoming America at KSU" (November 2017)
- Co-Organizer and Panelist, "Coming to America: A Conversation on Contemporary Immigrant and Refugee Experiences" (March 2017)
- Race and Ethnicity Diversity Faculty Fellow, Office of Diversity and Inclusion (2017-2018)
- Member, Presidential Commission on Racial and Ethnic Diversity
- Safe Space Campus Ally
The Discipline of Geography
- American Association of Geographers (AAG)
- Member, AAG Diversity and Inclusion Committee, 2020-2023
- Career Mentor at AAG Annual Meetings
- Moderator for the World Geography Bowl competition at AAG Annual Meetings
- Panelist on AAG Career Opportunities for Geographers panel sessions at AAG Annual Meetings
- Volunteer, AAG Profiles of Geographers series, April 2018
- Ethnic Geography Specialty Group (EGSG) of the American Association of Geographers
- Member, Board of Directors, 2014-2016, 2017-2019
- Member, Dissertation Proposal Award Committee (Chair of committee, 2016-2017)
- Newsletter Editor
- Southeastern Division of the American Association of Geographers (SEDAAG)
- Editorial Board Member, Southeastern Geographer, the peer-reviewed journal of SEDAAG
- Moderator for Southeastern World Geography Bowl competition at SEDAAG Annual Meetings
- Manuscript peer reviewer for various peer-reviewed scholarly journals, 2015-present
Broader Community & General Public
- Member, Welcoming Standard Content Advisory Board, Welcoming America, 2020-2021
- Program Committee Member, 8th Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium, April 2020
- Founding Member, Georgia Immigration Research Network (GIRN)
- Founding Member, Receptivity, Integration, and Settlement In New Gateways (RISING) Research Group
- Co-Founder, Local Immigration Scholars Network (LISN)
- Steering Committee Member, Welcoming America's One Region Initiative
- Co-Organizer, 2018 Georgia Immigration Research Network annual meeting at Kennesaw State University
- Scholar Advisor, Levine Museum of the New South, for the exhibit, NUEVOlution: Latinos in the New South, which opened from 2015-2016 at the Levine Museum of the New South in Charlotte, NC, and subsequently traveled in 2016-2017 to the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute in Birmingham, AL, and then in 2017-2018 to the Atlanta History Center in Atlanta, GA.
- Co-Facilitator, roundtable discussions at Welcoming America's Welcoming Interactive 2016 and 2017 annual meetings
- Team Member, Green Card Youth Voices: Immigration Stories from an Atlanta High School