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-present
- 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)
- Treasurer (elected officer position), SEDAAG, 2021-2023
- Editorial Board Member, Southeastern Geographer, the peer-reviewed journal of SEDAAG, 2019-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
