Coldfront Magazine (associate editor)

For eight years, until the pandemic, I brought to publication hundreds of reviews, interviews, and features in Coldfront with a small team of editors. It was a successful online magazine focused on exploring contemporary American poetry that held events across the U.S. (in NYC, often co-sponsored with the New York Poetry Foundation), garnered several large-ticket grants under a non-for-profit license to grow and distribute content globally, and peaked with a broad audience of 15,000+ unique readers (making us the most widely read online poetry reviews site at the time, by far).

12th Street Journal, The New School, Writing and Democracy Honors Program (faculty advisor)

12th Street, originally published in 1946 and resuscitated in the early 200s, is widely regarded as one of the best undergraduate literary journals period. It has multiple times taken the top prize from the Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) for best content and design nationally. I worked with students to develop its current, year-round reprisal and teach the magazine editing course associated with the journal, which includes training in WordPress and some coding; the students in the course work as staff to produce it.

The CUNY 1969 Project (co-developer)

I co-developed and manage an interactive Open Educational Resource (OER) platform and community dedicated to understanding the struggle for Black and Puerto Rican representation in CUNY’s history. The historical narrative of the project is set in 1969, a period of unrest as students demanded radical changes to the admissions policies at CUNY—eventually leading to the implementation of open admissions in 1970. The project, which also includes an annual summer teach-in on antiracist pedagogy, has been generously supported by a variety of internal and external grants, including the Mellon Foundation, Teaching and Learning in the Humanities, and the Open Educational Resources Initiative. Our office’s contributions to Open Educational Resources, including this project, earned us a finalist spot in the worldwide 2022 Open Educational Global Awards for Excellence. For my personal work on this project and advocacy for first-generation college students, I was given the SEEK Award in 2024.

A Teacher’s Guide to First-Year Writing (developer)

The Teacher’s Guide to First-Year Writing is a digitally native tool produced first for the 100+ full and part-time instructors of writing at Baruch College’s English Department, and testament to my approach to establishing sustainable, community-driven dialogue spaces as a Writing Program Administrator. I developed, edited, and solicited material for the Teacher’s Guide, and have incorporated it into training for new hires. The guide provides sample assignments, syllabi, assessment methods, and a range of perspectives.

Join the Conversation (editor)

I was tapped at Baruch to create and edit a text for expository writing courses, which became Join the Conversation, published with Bedford/St. Martin’s press. I wasn’t going to approach it in a normal way, with my distaste for textbooks, and partnered with comic book artists, writers within the campus community, and others to create a book that also kicked back its earnings to more writing and professional development, including the development of subsequent editions. It is a huge win for me that we found a recursive way to pay adjuncts more from this project.

The Journal of Basic Writing (production editor)

The Journal of Basic Writing is a CUNY-native peer-reviewed journal founded by Mina Shaughnessy in 1975 with a broad readership in the field of writing studies, vastly beyond the purview of its title. It emerged from writing pedagogy after the implementation of open admissions policies at CUNY in 1969 and 1970—and CUNY student demands for more college preparation support. I design the journal’s issues and assist in their editing and proofreading.

Read Great Works, a repository of student reading experience (developer)

As the Writing and Great Works Program Manager, I worked with a team of doctoral writing fellows to develop a web resource for students taking our two Great Works of World Literature courses, which are general education requirements at Baruch. The site is a searchable corpus of student writing, in which they reflect on the experience of reading texts for their Great Works sections.