Resume

10+ years experience in project management, psychological and cultural research, visual presentations, writing & communications, event planning, and teaching
Key skills: leadership, qualitative and quantitative research, verbal/written/visual communication, creative and analytical thinking, relationship building, working independently and collaboratively in fast-paced environments
Founder of an virtual critical insight organization, vitalthought.org

Experience
Founder & Director, Vital Thought, vitalthought.org 2021-present

Managing team to create and operate a virtual educational organization providing academic humanities and social science learning to general audiences
Coordinating all aspects of program creation and operation: market analysis, hiring, team management, website design, visual strategy, marketing and data collection, advertising, copywriting, e-commerce, contract writing, payroll, budgeting, strategic planning, and publicity.

Deputy Director of Democracy and the Geopolitics of Tech, Institute for Security and Technology 2022

Managed the Digital Cognition & Democracy Initiative investigating how digital technologies affect human cognition and what those effects might mean for democracy. Drove and contributed to collaborative research, analysis, revision, editing, and release of seven reports. Read them here: https://securityandtechnology.org/dcdi/

PhD Researcher, Stony Brook University, NY 2016-2024
Instructor, Stony Brook University, NY 2016-2021

Performed 8 years of research in cultural studies topics esp. psychology, ideology, sustainability, film/ media/visual thinking, and technological experience and change (technocriticism.)
Taught university courses in multimodal, analytic, and persuasive research writing and rhetoric; science & technology studies; 20th Century continental philosophy; cultural, geopolitical, environmental, and media/visual studies.
Taught intro to advanced level courses, ~30 students per class, 50%+ international students.
Wrote winning application for Graduate Council Fellowship ($105,000 over 5 years.)
Planned and coordinated conferences, round tables talks, and a writing group.
Provided general administrative/communications support; data entry and maintenance; calendaring; drafted syllabi and assignment copy; individually tutored students as needed.

Research Assistant, CORE Lab, Northeastern University, MA 2009-2011

Assisted with Cognitive Psychology research in the Conceptual Organization, Reasoning, and Education (CORE) Lab.
Studied how people categorize the natural world, attention, and inductive reasoning.
Assisted with test design, visual stimuli design, recruiting subjects, performing experiments, debriefing, processing qualitative data sets, and data entry.
Methods: card sorting, inhibition/selective attention tests, interviews, surveys.

Education

Ph.D. Cultural Analysis & Theory — Stony Brook University, NY 2024
M.A. Philosophy, Psychoanalytic Theory — The New School for Social Research, NY 2014
B.S. Psychology & Philosophy, Fine Art — Northeastern University, MA 2011