Service

This page highlights selected examples of my recent service commitments for the department, college, university, discipline of geography, and broader community/general public. 

Department of Geography & Anthropology

• Department Faculty Council (DFC) member (2023-present)
• Department Awards Committee member (2023-present) and chair (2024-present)
• Department Website and Social Media Committee (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram), Chair (2016-2020) and Member (2020-present)
• Faculty Advisor, Mu Upsilon Chapter of Gamma Theta Upsilon International Geographical Honor Society (2015-2022)
• Faculty Senator for Department of Geography & Anthropology in the KSU Faculty Senate (2018-2021)

Norman J. Radow College of Humanities and Social Sciences

• College Faculty Council (CFC), Department of Geography and Anthropology representative (2023-present)
• College Awards Committee, Department of Geography and Anthropology representative (2024-present)
• College International Committee, Department of Geography and Anthropology representative (2019-present)
• Co-Organizer, Places and Spaces: Mapping Science exhibit (November-December 2019)

Kennesaw State University

• Member, Year of New Zealand (2022-2023) Planning Committee (2021-2023)
• Member, Year of Greece (2021-2022) Planning Committee (2019-2021)
• 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 LGBTQ+ Initiatives
• Member, Presidential Commission on Racial and Ethnic Diversity
• Safe Space Campus Ally

The Discipline of Geography

• American Association of Geographers (AAG)
  • Member, AAG National World Geography Bowl Committee (2023-present)
  • Member, AAG Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) 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
  • Chair (elected officer position), EGSG, 2024-2026
  • Vice Chair (elected officer position), EGSG, 2022-2024
  • Secretary-Treasurer (elected officer position), EGSG, 2020-2022
  • Member, Board of Directors, 2014-2016, 2017-2019
  • Member, Dissertation Proposal Award Committee (Chair of committee, 2016-2017)
  • Newsletter Editor, 2016-2022
• Southeastern Division of the American Association of Geographers (SEDAAG)
  • Vice President (elected officer position), SEDAAG, 2024-2026
  • Treasurer (elected officer position), SEDAAG, 2021-2023
  • Editorial Board Member, Southeastern Geographer, the peer-reviewed journal of SEDAAG, 2019-present
  • SEDAAG World Geography Bowl Committee Member, 2024-present
  • Moderator for Southeastern World Geography Bowl competition at SEDAAG Annual Meetings, 2016-present
• Manuscript peer reviewer for various peer-reviewed scholarly journals and book proposals, 2015-present

Broader Community & General Public

• Member, Welcoming Standard Content Advisory Board, Welcoming America, 2020-2021
• Program Committee Member, Atlanta Studies Symposium, 2020-2022
• 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