GRANTS, AWARDS, APPOINTMENTS• Board Member, School Library Journal Teen Advisory Board• Member of the Chattanooga Mozilla Hive Learning Network.• Mozilla Community Gigabit fund; $30,000 grant award in partnership with Hyperaudio to develop and test a transcript powered video editing tool.• Benwood Foundation, $40,000 award in partnership with AIGA Chattanooga and engage3D to host "DEV DEV: summer of code" in Summer 2014.• Library Journal's Movers and Shakers award, March 2013.• Member of the 2013 Young Adult Library Services Association President's Task Force.• Panel Member, 2010-2012 Letters About Literature Contest, Maine Humanities Council.• Teen eBook Selector for the Maine Infonet Download Library, August 2011-March 2013.• Mentor, 2011 American Library Association Emerging Leaders Program.• American Library Association 2010 Emerging Leaders Program participant.SELECT PRESENTATIONS AND PUBLICATIONS• Speaker, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, November, 2015.• Keynote, LIANZA 2015, Wellington, New Zealand, November, 2015.• Speaker, New York Library Association Conference, We Hope You Had An Amazing Experience, October 2015.• Speaker, Thursdays With CLA Webinar, Reinventing Reference, May 2015.• Keynote, Create and Collaborate and Be Awesome For Your Community, Enoch Pratt Free Library Innovation Expo, Baltimore, MD, May 2014.• Presenter, ALA STEAM Webinar, Virtual, May 2014.• Keynote, We Hope You Had An Amazing Experience: Libraries In the 21st Century, Marigold Library System, Strathmore, Alberta, Canada, May 2014.• Contributing Author, The Whole Library Handbook: Teen Services, Gaming in Libraries, edited by Heather Booth and Karen Jensen, April 2014.• Keynote, 21st Century Boys & Girls: Youth Services Leads The Change in Public Libraries, UNCG LIS Alumni Luncheon, Greensboro, NC, March 2014.• Moderator and Presenter, The Digital Shift: Reinventing Libraries, Library Journal/School Library Journal Online Event, October 2013• Presenter, Introduction to Visual Literacy: Strategies for “Reading” Art, Maine Humanities Council, October 2012.• Contributing Author, The Library Marketing Toolkit, by Ned Potter, June 2012.• Presenter, Video Games in Libraries, and Library Management , Bibliothekartag Library Conference, Hamburg, Germany, May 2012.• Presenter, Content Creation for Teens, Carterette Series Webinars, Georgia Library Association, March 2012.• Co-Author with Nicole Pagowsky, ALA Emerging Leaders: New Perspectives in Leadership , Library Leadership & Management Association Journal (LLAMA), February 2012.• Author, Collaboration and Community for a Successful Future, VOYA, December 2010.• Presenter, Maine Library Association Conference, Connecting With Teens Using Social Media, October 2010.PROJECTS• Member: HIVE Chattanooga Learning Community, the Mozilla Foundation's select group of community leaders who work to support technology and connected learning experiences in the Chattanooga area through collaboration between local agencies.• DEV DEV: summer of code, a code camp for teens that made possible by a grant from the Benwood Foundation and in collaboration with engage3D and AIGA Chattanooga.• Make Art for the Library, Collaboration with the Maine College of Art, Portland Public Library, May 2012.• Searching for ME, Collaboration with The Telling Room and the Maine College of Art, December 2011.• Make Music at the Library, Collaboration with Sonya Tomlinson, Portland Public Library, Summer 2011.• Game On! Envisioning Your Own Video Game , Collaboration with The Telling Room, Portland Public Library
Fall 2010.EDUCATION• Master of Library Science, Clarion University of Pennsylvania, May 2008• Bachelor of Arts in English/Writing, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, May 2006