Curriculum Vita
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Writing, Michigan State University, 2018
B.A. in English, Northeastern State University, 2010
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Assistant Professor, tenure-track, University of Missouri–Columbia, 2019-present
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS
cultural rhetorics; decolonial and anti-colonial theories; American Indian and Indigenous rhetorics; historiography; Indigenous feminism; embodied rhetorics; environmental humanities; multimodal composing; digital storytelling and media; memoir and autoethnography
PUBLICATIONS
In press and in process
Shade-Johnson, Jaquetta. “Engaging Native Land and Indigenous Food Sovereignty in a Food Writing Classroom: A Decolonial Pedagogy Story of Practice.” Decolonial Possibilities. Edited collection. Eds. Lisa King and Andrea Riley Mukavetz. Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC): Studies in Rhetoric and Writing (SWR) Series. (in production)
Shade-Johnson, Jaquetta. Indigenous Matrilineal Stories in Patriarchal Settler Archives. (in process)
Shade-Johnson, Jaquetta. Wishi Stories. (in process)
Refereed articles and book chapters
Shade-Johnson, Jaquetta, and Phil Bratta. “Volume 3: Introduction.” Spark: a 4C4Equality Journal, vol 3, May 2021. https://sparkactivism.com/volume-3-introduction/
Shade, Jaquetta. “Constellating ‘the Nourishing Arts,’ Decolonial Theory, Land, and Indigenous Food Sovereignty Activism through Story, Relations, and Making.” Journal of Global Literacies, Technologies, and Emerging Pedagogies, vol 5, issue 2, November 2019, pp. 874-894.
Shade, Jaquetta. “Alisdayhv: A Cherokee Foodways Memoir.” Pixelating the Self: Digital Feminist Memoirs. Ed. Alexandra Hidalgo. Enculturation: Intermezzo, 2018. http://intermezzo.enculturation.net/08-hidalgo-et-al/index.html
Non-refereed articles
Shade, Jaquetta and Brooke Chambers. “Producing the Future: The Book I Need.” Studies in Rhetoric and Writing: The Books We Need. August 2017. http://swreditors.org/interact/the-books-we-need/
Shade, Jaquetta. “Frybread.” Midwest Hunger Is: An Anthology. Community Composing Project. Michigan State University Writing Center. Fall 2015, pp 15-17.
Media Interviews
Creating Coalitional Gestures. “Episode 5: Interviews with Drs. Jaquetta Shade-Johnson, Darin Jensen, and Iris Ruiz.” Creating Coalitional Gestures podcast. Spark: a 4C4Equality Journal. August 2021. https://anchor.fm/4c4equality/episodes/Season-1--Episode-5-August-5--2021-Interviews-with-Drs--Jaquetta-Shade-Johnson--Darin-Jensen--Iris-Ruiz-e15jagr/a-a6a0kug
Pratt, Stacy. Interview with Jaquetta Shade-Johnson. “It's time to start paying attention to indigenous foods — especially on Thanksgiving.” Hello Giggles. Nov 2017. https://hellogiggles.com/lifestyle/indigenous-foods-this-thanksgiving/
Honors & Awards
Huddle Award, College of Arts & Sciences, University of Missouri, Fall 2020-Spring 2022 $1,000
Cobell Graduate Scholarship, Indigenous Education Inc., August 2017-May 2018, $10,000
Emma Shore-Thornton Award, Michigan State University, Native American Institute, May 2015, $600
Grants & Fellowships
Research/Development Leave, University of Missouri, Fall 2022-Spring 2023
Research Council Grant, University of Missouri, May 2021-May 2022, $9,324
Susan Applegate Krouse Graduate Research Fellowship, American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program, Michigan State University, August 2017-May 2018, $2000
Invited Talks & Discussions
Shade-Johnson, Jaquetta. “Writing Our Stories: Constellating the Field, First-Year Writing, and Tribal Colleges (Parts 1 & 2).” Keynote Lecture, Still Sacred: First Year Writing at the Tribal College Conference, Diné College, Tsaile, AZ. May 2021.
Shade-Johnson, Jaquetta. “2021 Albrecht Earth Day Lecture.” School of Natural Resources, University of Missouri, Columbia MO. April 2021.
Shade-Johnson, Jaquetta. "Constellating a Matrix of Stories: Cultural Rhetorics as a Decolonizing Approach to Knowledge Construction.” The Bridge Research Series, University of Missouri, Columbia MO. February 2021.
Shade-Johnson, Jaquetta. Panelist. Missouri Language & Literacies Center Teacher Summer Institute. University of Missouri, Spring 2022. (cancelled)
Shade-Johnson, Jaquetta. Panelist. Anti-Racism Working Group One Read: Shelbi Meissner’s “The Moral Fabric of Linguicide,” Department of English, University of Missouri. Fall 2021.
Shade-Johnson, Jaquetta. Speaker. “Indigenous Cultures: Reflections for Indigenous Peoples’ Day.” Global Professionals, Trulaske College of Business, University of Missouri. Fall 2021.
Shade-Johnson, Jaquetta. Panelist, Department One Read. Department of English, University of Missouri. Fall 2019.
Refereed Conference Presentations
Shade-Johnson, Jaquetta. “Cherokee Matriarchal Knowledge in Settler Archives: Seeking My Matrilineal Clan Identity in the Records of Dead White Men.” “Visionaries of Indian Country,” 48th Annual Symposium on the American Indian, Northeastern State University, Tahlequah, OK, April 2020 (accepted; postponed)
Shade-Johnson, Jaquetta. “Seeking Matriarchal Stories in Patriarchal Archives: Tracing Matrilineal Clan Identity in the Cherokee Diaspora.” “Ancestors of the Future: Rights, Resilience, and Actions in the Age of Climate Change,” American Indian Studies Association Conference, 6 February 2021.
Shade-Johnson, Jaquetta. "Mapping Our Stories: Decolonizing Cartography in the Classroom.” Cultural Rhetorics Conference, Michigan State University. East Lansing, MI November 2018.
Shade-Johnson, Jaquetta. “Rhetorics of Land and Place in Deborah Miranda’s Bad Indians.” Symposium on the American Indian. Northeastern State University. Tahlequah, OK. April 2018
Shade-Johnson, Jaquetta. “Gathering Wishi, Gathering Stories: Land-based Literacies Cherokee Cultural Foraging Practices.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Kansas City, MO. March 2018
Lee, Kimberli, Andrea Riley-Mukavetz, and Jaquetta Shade-Johnson. “Practicing Indigenous Pedagogies.” Returning the Gift Literary Festival. University of Oklahoma. Norman, OK. October 2017
Shade, Jaquetta. “Writing the Land: Indigenous Cookbooks and American Indian Foodways.” Symposium on the American Indian. Northeastern State University. Tahlequah, OK. April 2017
Shade, Jaquetta. “Cultivating Community Literacies through Indigenous Food Rhetorics.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Portland, OR. March 2017
Shade, Jaquetta. “Producing the Future: The Book I Need.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Portland, OR. March 2017
Shade, Jaquetta. “Writing Foodways: Indigenous Cookbooks as Land-Based Methodologies.” Cultural Rhetorics Conference. Michigan State University. East Lansing, MI. November 2016
Shade, Jaquetta. “Storied Foodways: Decolonial Narratives in Heid E. Erdrich’s Original Local.” Intervention into Indigenous Narrative. Institute of American Indian Arts. Albuquerque, NM. February 2016
Shade, Jaquetta. “Don’t Touch My Hair: Strategies of Survivance through Cherokee Hair Practices.” Midwest Pop Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference. Cincinnati, OH. October 2015
Shade, Jaquetta. “Of Fire and Water: Rhetoric of Memory and Place in Joy Harjo’s Crazy Brave.” American Indian Studies Association Conference. University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM. February 2015
Shade, Jaquetta. “Anachronism and Anarchy: Resistance through Folkpunk Protest Songs at the Intersection of Punk and Roots Cultures.” Cultural Rhetorics Conference, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI. October 2014
Shade, Jaquetta. “Indigepunk as Pastiche.” Southeast College American Indian Symposium. Southeast College, Durant, OK.November 2013
Shade, Jaquetta. “Cherokee Domestic Folklore.” Southeast College American Indian Symposium. Southeast College, Durant, OK.November 2012
Shade, Jaquetta. “Resistance is Futile: Anarchopunk in Social Media.” PCA/ACA National Conference. San Antonio, TX. March 2011
Workshops Designed & Facilitated
Shade-Johnson, Jaquetta. “Cornhusk Dolls: A Making, Story, and Identity Workshop.” University of Missouri, Native American Heritage Month 2019, November 2019
Brownlee, Yavanna, Kenlea Pebbles, Jaquetta Shade-Johnson, Everardo Cuevas, et al. “All Our Relations: Teaching Social Justice Movements Cross-Caucus Workshop.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Kansas City, MO, March 2018
Shade, Jaquetta. “Cherokee Marbles.” Odamino Native Games Series. Michigan State University, American Indian and Indigenous Studies. April 2018
Shade, Jaquetta. “Cherokee Marbles.” Odamino Native Games Series. Michigan State University, American Indian and Indigenous Studies. April 2017
Shade, Jaquetta. “Cherokee Marbles.” Odamino Native Games Series. Michigan State University, American Indian and Indigenous Studies. April 2016
Shade, Jaquetta. “Composing Photos,” PhotoVoice Workshop,Lansing, MI. Michigan State University, Writing Center Outreach. July 2016
Shade, Jaquetta. “Photo Composition.” Midwest Hunger Is: Photovoice Workshop in Flint, MI. Michigan State University, Writing Center Outreach. July 2015
EDITORIAL
Editorial Board, Peitho, Summer 2022-present
Founding Editor, Editorial Collective, Spark: A 4C4Equality Journal, Fall 2017-present
GRADUATE SUPERVISORY COMMITTEES
Graduate Exam Committees
Adrianna Gonzalez Ybarra, College of Education, University of Missouri, anticipated Fall 2022
Melissa Horner, Department of Sociology, University of Missouri, anticipated Spring 2023
Brittany Wilson, Department of English, University of Missouri, Fall 2021
Master’s Thesis Committees
Mikaela Diemeke, Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri, Spring 2022
Constance Bougie, Department of English, University of Missouri, Fall 2021-Spring 2021
SERVICE AND LEADERSHIP
Departmental
Co-Chair, Anti-Racist Working Group, Fall 2021-present
Council Member, Chair’s Advisory Council, Fall 2020-Spring 2022
Committee Member, Graduate Committee, Department of English, University of Missouri, Fall 2020-Spring 2021
Committee Member, Composition Committee, Department of English, University of Missouri, Fall 2019-Spring 2022
Committee Member, Undergraduate Committee, Department of English, University of Missouri, Fall 2019-Spring 2020
University
Committee Member, Search Committee for Director of Museum of Art and Archaeology, Fall 2021-Spring 2022
Task Force Member, MU Task Force on Indigenous Affairs, University of Missouri, Fall 2020-Spring 2022
Committee member, Native American Heritage Month Event Committee, University of Missouri, Fall 2020-Fall 2021
NATIONAL
Board Member, CCCC Executive Board, Fall 2021-present
Committee Member, CCCC Task Force on Local Arrangement Processes, Spring 2021-Spring 2022
Committee Member, Digadatseli'I Cherokee Scholars Conference Planning Committee, Fall 2019-present
Chair, CCCC 2020 Nominating Committee, Fall 2019-Summer 2020
Chair, CCCC Tribal College Faculty Award Committee, Fall 2019-Spring 2022
Committee Member, Community Sub-Committee, Cultural Rhetorics Conference, Fall 2015-Fall 2016
Committee Member, Local Arrangements Sub-Committee, Cultural Rhetorics Conference, Fall 2015-Fall 2016
MANUSCRIPT AND PROPOSAL REVIEWS
Constellations Journal, Issue 6, Fall 2022
Peitho Journal, Summer 2020
Spark: A 4C4Equality Journal. Fall 2017-present
College Composition and Communication Journal, Vol 71, No. 3: February 2020
Stage 1 Conference Reviewer, Cultural Rhetorics Conference, March 2016, 2018
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
Indigenous Youth Empowerment Program Mentor, Lansing, MI, August 2014-May 2018
Consortium on Cherokee Ecology and Foodways (CCEF), Tahlequah, OK. June 2019-present.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Languages
Cherokee/Tsalagi: intermediate (spoken and written)
French: intermediate (spoken and written)
Digital Media Tools
Adobe Creative Cloud Suite: Premiere, Photoshop, Audition, Lightroom, InDesign, Spark
Web Development: Squarespace, Concrete5, Wordpress, Weebly
Social Media Management: Hootsuite
iMovie
Microsoft Sway
Canva
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
RSA – Rhetoric Society of America
CCCC - Conference on College Composition and Communication
NCTE - National Council of Teachers of English
Digatseli’I – Cherokee Scholars
Cultural Rhetorics Consortium
Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers
Sigma Tau Delta (Mu Iota Chapter), International English Honor Society
Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Writing, Michigan State University, 2018
- Cultural rhetorics concentration
- American Indian and Indigenous Studies Graduate Affiliation
- Dissertation: Wishi Stories: Rhetorical Strategies of Survivance and Continuance in Oklahoma Cherokee Foodways
B.A. in English, Northeastern State University, 2010
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Assistant Professor, tenure-track, University of Missouri–Columbia, 2019-present
- Department of English, College of Arts and Science
- Digital Storytelling Program, School of Visual Studies (joint appointment)
- Native American and Indigenous Studies Affiliated Faculty
- Department of Languages and Literature
- Department of English
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS
cultural rhetorics; decolonial and anti-colonial theories; American Indian and Indigenous rhetorics; historiography; Indigenous feminism; embodied rhetorics; environmental humanities; multimodal composing; digital storytelling and media; memoir and autoethnography
PUBLICATIONS
In press and in process
Shade-Johnson, Jaquetta. “Engaging Native Land and Indigenous Food Sovereignty in a Food Writing Classroom: A Decolonial Pedagogy Story of Practice.” Decolonial Possibilities. Edited collection. Eds. Lisa King and Andrea Riley Mukavetz. Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC): Studies in Rhetoric and Writing (SWR) Series. (in production)
Shade-Johnson, Jaquetta. Indigenous Matrilineal Stories in Patriarchal Settler Archives. (in process)
Shade-Johnson, Jaquetta. Wishi Stories. (in process)
Refereed articles and book chapters
Shade-Johnson, Jaquetta, and Phil Bratta. “Volume 3: Introduction.” Spark: a 4C4Equality Journal, vol 3, May 2021. https://sparkactivism.com/volume-3-introduction/
Shade, Jaquetta. “Constellating ‘the Nourishing Arts,’ Decolonial Theory, Land, and Indigenous Food Sovereignty Activism through Story, Relations, and Making.” Journal of Global Literacies, Technologies, and Emerging Pedagogies, vol 5, issue 2, November 2019, pp. 874-894.
Shade, Jaquetta. “Alisdayhv: A Cherokee Foodways Memoir.” Pixelating the Self: Digital Feminist Memoirs. Ed. Alexandra Hidalgo. Enculturation: Intermezzo, 2018. http://intermezzo.enculturation.net/08-hidalgo-et-al/index.html
Non-refereed articles
Shade, Jaquetta and Brooke Chambers. “Producing the Future: The Book I Need.” Studies in Rhetoric and Writing: The Books We Need. August 2017. http://swreditors.org/interact/the-books-we-need/
Shade, Jaquetta. “Frybread.” Midwest Hunger Is: An Anthology. Community Composing Project. Michigan State University Writing Center. Fall 2015, pp 15-17.
Media Interviews
Creating Coalitional Gestures. “Episode 5: Interviews with Drs. Jaquetta Shade-Johnson, Darin Jensen, and Iris Ruiz.” Creating Coalitional Gestures podcast. Spark: a 4C4Equality Journal. August 2021. https://anchor.fm/4c4equality/episodes/Season-1--Episode-5-August-5--2021-Interviews-with-Drs--Jaquetta-Shade-Johnson--Darin-Jensen--Iris-Ruiz-e15jagr/a-a6a0kug
Pratt, Stacy. Interview with Jaquetta Shade-Johnson. “It's time to start paying attention to indigenous foods — especially on Thanksgiving.” Hello Giggles. Nov 2017. https://hellogiggles.com/lifestyle/indigenous-foods-this-thanksgiving/
Honors & Awards
Huddle Award, College of Arts & Sciences, University of Missouri, Fall 2020-Spring 2022 $1,000
Cobell Graduate Scholarship, Indigenous Education Inc., August 2017-May 2018, $10,000
Emma Shore-Thornton Award, Michigan State University, Native American Institute, May 2015, $600
Grants & Fellowships
Research/Development Leave, University of Missouri, Fall 2022-Spring 2023
Research Council Grant, University of Missouri, May 2021-May 2022, $9,324
Susan Applegate Krouse Graduate Research Fellowship, American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program, Michigan State University, August 2017-May 2018, $2000
Invited Talks & Discussions
Shade-Johnson, Jaquetta. “Writing Our Stories: Constellating the Field, First-Year Writing, and Tribal Colleges (Parts 1 & 2).” Keynote Lecture, Still Sacred: First Year Writing at the Tribal College Conference, Diné College, Tsaile, AZ. May 2021.
Shade-Johnson, Jaquetta. “2021 Albrecht Earth Day Lecture.” School of Natural Resources, University of Missouri, Columbia MO. April 2021.
Shade-Johnson, Jaquetta. "Constellating a Matrix of Stories: Cultural Rhetorics as a Decolonizing Approach to Knowledge Construction.” The Bridge Research Series, University of Missouri, Columbia MO. February 2021.
Shade-Johnson, Jaquetta. Panelist. Missouri Language & Literacies Center Teacher Summer Institute. University of Missouri, Spring 2022. (cancelled)
Shade-Johnson, Jaquetta. Panelist. Anti-Racism Working Group One Read: Shelbi Meissner’s “The Moral Fabric of Linguicide,” Department of English, University of Missouri. Fall 2021.
Shade-Johnson, Jaquetta. Speaker. “Indigenous Cultures: Reflections for Indigenous Peoples’ Day.” Global Professionals, Trulaske College of Business, University of Missouri. Fall 2021.
Shade-Johnson, Jaquetta. Panelist, Department One Read. Department of English, University of Missouri. Fall 2019.
Refereed Conference Presentations
Shade-Johnson, Jaquetta. “Cherokee Matriarchal Knowledge in Settler Archives: Seeking My Matrilineal Clan Identity in the Records of Dead White Men.” “Visionaries of Indian Country,” 48th Annual Symposium on the American Indian, Northeastern State University, Tahlequah, OK, April 2020 (accepted; postponed)
Shade-Johnson, Jaquetta. “Seeking Matriarchal Stories in Patriarchal Archives: Tracing Matrilineal Clan Identity in the Cherokee Diaspora.” “Ancestors of the Future: Rights, Resilience, and Actions in the Age of Climate Change,” American Indian Studies Association Conference, 6 February 2021.
Shade-Johnson, Jaquetta. "Mapping Our Stories: Decolonizing Cartography in the Classroom.” Cultural Rhetorics Conference, Michigan State University. East Lansing, MI November 2018.
Shade-Johnson, Jaquetta. “Rhetorics of Land and Place in Deborah Miranda’s Bad Indians.” Symposium on the American Indian. Northeastern State University. Tahlequah, OK. April 2018
Shade-Johnson, Jaquetta. “Gathering Wishi, Gathering Stories: Land-based Literacies Cherokee Cultural Foraging Practices.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Kansas City, MO. March 2018
Lee, Kimberli, Andrea Riley-Mukavetz, and Jaquetta Shade-Johnson. “Practicing Indigenous Pedagogies.” Returning the Gift Literary Festival. University of Oklahoma. Norman, OK. October 2017
Shade, Jaquetta. “Writing the Land: Indigenous Cookbooks and American Indian Foodways.” Symposium on the American Indian. Northeastern State University. Tahlequah, OK. April 2017
Shade, Jaquetta. “Cultivating Community Literacies through Indigenous Food Rhetorics.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Portland, OR. March 2017
Shade, Jaquetta. “Producing the Future: The Book I Need.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Portland, OR. March 2017
Shade, Jaquetta. “Writing Foodways: Indigenous Cookbooks as Land-Based Methodologies.” Cultural Rhetorics Conference. Michigan State University. East Lansing, MI. November 2016
Shade, Jaquetta. “Storied Foodways: Decolonial Narratives in Heid E. Erdrich’s Original Local.” Intervention into Indigenous Narrative. Institute of American Indian Arts. Albuquerque, NM. February 2016
Shade, Jaquetta. “Don’t Touch My Hair: Strategies of Survivance through Cherokee Hair Practices.” Midwest Pop Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference. Cincinnati, OH. October 2015
Shade, Jaquetta. “Of Fire and Water: Rhetoric of Memory and Place in Joy Harjo’s Crazy Brave.” American Indian Studies Association Conference. University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM. February 2015
Shade, Jaquetta. “Anachronism and Anarchy: Resistance through Folkpunk Protest Songs at the Intersection of Punk and Roots Cultures.” Cultural Rhetorics Conference, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI. October 2014
Shade, Jaquetta. “Indigepunk as Pastiche.” Southeast College American Indian Symposium. Southeast College, Durant, OK.November 2013
Shade, Jaquetta. “Cherokee Domestic Folklore.” Southeast College American Indian Symposium. Southeast College, Durant, OK.November 2012
Shade, Jaquetta. “Resistance is Futile: Anarchopunk in Social Media.” PCA/ACA National Conference. San Antonio, TX. March 2011
Workshops Designed & Facilitated
Shade-Johnson, Jaquetta. “Cornhusk Dolls: A Making, Story, and Identity Workshop.” University of Missouri, Native American Heritage Month 2019, November 2019
Brownlee, Yavanna, Kenlea Pebbles, Jaquetta Shade-Johnson, Everardo Cuevas, et al. “All Our Relations: Teaching Social Justice Movements Cross-Caucus Workshop.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Kansas City, MO, March 2018
Shade, Jaquetta. “Cherokee Marbles.” Odamino Native Games Series. Michigan State University, American Indian and Indigenous Studies. April 2018
Shade, Jaquetta. “Cherokee Marbles.” Odamino Native Games Series. Michigan State University, American Indian and Indigenous Studies. April 2017
Shade, Jaquetta. “Cherokee Marbles.” Odamino Native Games Series. Michigan State University, American Indian and Indigenous Studies. April 2016
Shade, Jaquetta. “Composing Photos,” PhotoVoice Workshop,Lansing, MI. Michigan State University, Writing Center Outreach. July 2016
Shade, Jaquetta. “Photo Composition.” Midwest Hunger Is: Photovoice Workshop in Flint, MI. Michigan State University, Writing Center Outreach. July 2015
EDITORIAL
Editorial Board, Peitho, Summer 2022-present
Founding Editor, Editorial Collective, Spark: A 4C4Equality Journal, Fall 2017-present
GRADUATE SUPERVISORY COMMITTEES
Graduate Exam Committees
Adrianna Gonzalez Ybarra, College of Education, University of Missouri, anticipated Fall 2022
Melissa Horner, Department of Sociology, University of Missouri, anticipated Spring 2023
Brittany Wilson, Department of English, University of Missouri, Fall 2021
Master’s Thesis Committees
Mikaela Diemeke, Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri, Spring 2022
Constance Bougie, Department of English, University of Missouri, Fall 2021-Spring 2021
SERVICE AND LEADERSHIP
Departmental
Co-Chair, Anti-Racist Working Group, Fall 2021-present
Council Member, Chair’s Advisory Council, Fall 2020-Spring 2022
Committee Member, Graduate Committee, Department of English, University of Missouri, Fall 2020-Spring 2021
Committee Member, Composition Committee, Department of English, University of Missouri, Fall 2019-Spring 2022
Committee Member, Undergraduate Committee, Department of English, University of Missouri, Fall 2019-Spring 2020
University
Committee Member, Search Committee for Director of Museum of Art and Archaeology, Fall 2021-Spring 2022
Task Force Member, MU Task Force on Indigenous Affairs, University of Missouri, Fall 2020-Spring 2022
Committee member, Native American Heritage Month Event Committee, University of Missouri, Fall 2020-Fall 2021
NATIONAL
Board Member, CCCC Executive Board, Fall 2021-present
Committee Member, CCCC Task Force on Local Arrangement Processes, Spring 2021-Spring 2022
Committee Member, Digadatseli'I Cherokee Scholars Conference Planning Committee, Fall 2019-present
Chair, CCCC 2020 Nominating Committee, Fall 2019-Summer 2020
Chair, CCCC Tribal College Faculty Award Committee, Fall 2019-Spring 2022
Committee Member, Community Sub-Committee, Cultural Rhetorics Conference, Fall 2015-Fall 2016
Committee Member, Local Arrangements Sub-Committee, Cultural Rhetorics Conference, Fall 2015-Fall 2016
MANUSCRIPT AND PROPOSAL REVIEWS
Constellations Journal, Issue 6, Fall 2022
Peitho Journal, Summer 2020
Spark: A 4C4Equality Journal. Fall 2017-present
College Composition and Communication Journal, Vol 71, No. 3: February 2020
Stage 1 Conference Reviewer, Cultural Rhetorics Conference, March 2016, 2018
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
Indigenous Youth Empowerment Program Mentor, Lansing, MI, August 2014-May 2018
Consortium on Cherokee Ecology and Foodways (CCEF), Tahlequah, OK. June 2019-present.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Languages
Cherokee/Tsalagi: intermediate (spoken and written)
French: intermediate (spoken and written)
Digital Media Tools
Adobe Creative Cloud Suite: Premiere, Photoshop, Audition, Lightroom, InDesign, Spark
Web Development: Squarespace, Concrete5, Wordpress, Weebly
Social Media Management: Hootsuite
iMovie
Microsoft Sway
Canva
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
RSA – Rhetoric Society of America
CCCC - Conference on College Composition and Communication
NCTE - National Council of Teachers of English
Digatseli’I – Cherokee Scholars
Cultural Rhetorics Consortium
Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers
Sigma Tau Delta (Mu Iota Chapter), International English Honor Society
