EXPERIENCE

Brown Middle School          

September 2025 - May 2026

Student Teacher 

  • Develop and execute original lesson plans & execute existing lessons by supervising practitioner

  • Lead classes and grade assignments

  • Expose students to a variety of art mediums, including painting, clay, artist books, fiber, paper collage, & found objects

  • Differentiate instruction to accommodate various learning styles; present information verbally, visually & through written instruction

  • Paid substitute teacher in cases of supervising practitioner’s absence

  • Ran art club as well as design and painted the set backdrop for the school musical


Marklund Hyde Center            

August 2024 - January 2025

Therapeutic Activity Aide 

  • Support sixteen individuals with profound disabilities with basic needs such as feeding, repositioning, & bathing in a residential setting

  • Organize and facilitate community outings

  • Provide vocational and recreational activities to help residents reach therapy goals


Water Street Studios              

April 2022 - January 2023

Art Teacher

  • Design and act as lead teacher for original group classes, private lessons, and summer camps in portrait painting, fashion illustration, and zine making

EDUCATION


Tufts University in affiliation with the School of the Museum of Fine Arts  

Expected May 2026

Master of Arts in Teaching for Art Education

  • Current GPA: 3.96/4.0

  • Relevant coursework: Human Development & Learning, Creating Inclusive Learning Spaces, Universal Design in Art Education, Current Issues in Art Education, Innovative Teaching Methods, Foundations in Art Education, Field Studies in Art Education, Art Ed Curriculum

  • Student teaching practicum in Newton Public Schools

  • Teaching Assistant for teen painting class at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston


Columbia College Chicago      

May 2024

Bachelors of Art in Film and Television Studies

  • GPA: 3.866/4.0, Graduated Magna Cum Laude 

  • Relevant coursework: Printmaking I, Drawing I, Culture Race and Media, Production Design, Experimental Production I and II, Image Design for Cinema, Fashion Ethics and Aesthetics

  • Curatorial Intern for the Miami Film Festival

  • Participant in the Sundance Ignite x Adobe program


New York University      

Attended May - June 2024

Writers in New York Summer Program


Fordham University Lincoln Center      

Attended May - June 2024

Studied Film at

  • GPA: 3.829/4.0

CERTIFICATIONS & LICENSURE

  • Visual Art PreK-8 & 5-12 Initial Licensure                                 Expected May 2026          

Massachusetts Teaching Licensure     

  • Visual Art 5-12 Provisional License       December 2025         

    Massachusetts Teaching Licensure

  • MTEL                                            September 2025          

Massachusetts Tests for Educator Licensure

  • Direct Support Professional License                September 2024

Illinois Department of Human Services

  • First Aid and CPR Certification                         August 2024

Red Cross

AWARDS

  • Tufts Scholarship May 2025

Merit-based, Awarded with 30% reduction in tuition charges throughout the duration of the program

  • Faculty Recognition Award, Dean Scholarship, and Columbia Scholar Award September 2022

Merit-based, Awarded with $4,250 annually

  • YoungArts Level 1 Finalist  |   Writing, Play/Script January 2021

Participated in YoungArts Week, an intensive artistic learning experience; Chosen as one of twenty finalists out of 2,110 international applicants; Awarded with $3,000; Published in the 2021 YoungArts anthology

  • Kennedy Center VSA Playwright Discovery Winner    August 2021

Young writers with disabilities are invited to submit a 'ten-minute script' of any genre; Worked with industry professionals in further development of the script, as well as participating in networking opportunities; Chosen as one of four winners out of all national applicants in the senior division; Awarded with $1,000

  • Fordham Loyola Scholarship September 2020

Merit-based, Awarded with $6,250.00 annually

ART EXHIBITION

  • Sold prints at Ghoulish Mortals St. Charles, IL - 2021-Present

  • The Gelb Gallery at Phillips Academy Andover, MA - 2026 

  • Tufts Art Sale Boston, MA - 2026 

  • Jackson Junge Gallery 10x10 Show Chicago, IL - 2022, 2023

  • Water Street Studios Batavia, IL - 2021, 2022

  • Sold prints at Cottonseed Cultural Exchange Aurora, IL - 2021-2022  

  • Gallery 30 South Coaster Show Pasadena, CA - 2021

SKILLS


Fine Art

  • PAINTING - Acrylic, Oil, Watercolor

  • DRAWING - Digital illustration (Procreate), Pastel, Graphite, Colored Pencil, Ink and Marker

  • FILM - Digital editing (Adobe Premiere), Videography, Lighting

  • PRINTMAKING - Relief mediums such as woodblock, linocut, etc.

  • MULTIMEDIA - Wearable art, Public installation, Sound Art/Radio

  • WRITING - Screenwriting, Creative nonfiction, Fiction short story


Computer

  • MICROSOFT OFFICE - Word, PowerPoint & Excel

  • GOOGLE WORKPLACE - Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms

  • EDUCATION TOOLS - Google Classroom, Box, Canvas


Curriculum Development

  • Multicultural/culturally responsive, student centered & reflective of the identities and abilities of the student body 

  • Contemporary artist examples taught alongside contemporary ways of art making

  • Curriculum structured through Visual Thinking Strategies, Backwards Design, and Enduring Understandings 


References available upon request.