I am actively engaged in academic leadership locally and nationally. 

At Virginia Tech I serve as the Director of the Rhetoric and Writing PhD program. I have also served as a research associate and strategic planning coordinator for our Center for Rhetoric in Society (CRS); I currently serve as an advisory board member for the CRS.

At Carnegie Mellon University I served in multiple campus leadership roles with the university’s Graduate Student Assembly (GSA). In my role as President, I led the first campus-wide GSA Strategic Plan and spoke publicly about the value of graduate education, as I did at the Integrated Intelligence Fundraising event in San Francisco, California in 2015. 

At a national level, I have been engaged in  Higher Education Policy and Advocacy and served as a Director of Legislative Affairs for the National Association of Graduate & Professional Students (NAGPS). I currently serve as an at-large member of the steering committee for the American Society for the History of Rhetoric (ASHR).

ADMINISTRATIVE AND LEADERSHIP POSITIONS

• Director, Rhetoric and Writing PhD program, Virginia Tech (Fall 2023–present)
• Advisory Board Member, Center for Rhetoric in Society (Fall 2023–present)
• Associate Director, Rhetoric and Writing PhD program, Virginia Tech (Spring 2023)
• Faculty Senate Representative, Virginia Tech (Spring 2023–present)
• Steering Committee Member, American Society for the History of Rhetoric (2021–present)
• Strategic Planning Coordinator, Center for Rhetoric in Society, Virginia Tech (2018–2019)
• President, Graduate Student Assembly (GSA), Carnegie Mellon University (2014–2016)
• Chair, National Leadership Summit, NAGPS  (2013–2014)
• Northeast Director of Legislative Affairs, NAGPS (2013–2014)
• Vice-President of External Affairs, GSA, Carnegie Mellon University (2012–2014)