Education:

Columbia Publishing Course, Columbia University, New York, NY         Summer 2008

•    Six-week intensive course on all aspects of book and magazine publishing

Brown University, Providence, RI                             December 2007

•    B. A. with Honors in Literatures and Cultures in English

•    Awarded the 2007 Arlene Rome Ten Eyck Prize in Literary Theory for Honors Thesis, Paranoid Organs, Schizoid Regimes: Capitalism and Pynchon

•    Awarded 2008 Arnold Fellowship for a postgraduate year in Kolkata

•    Awarded 2005 Royce Fellowship to study American Prison Literature

•    Awarded 2007 Preston-Gurney Prize for Cultural Criticism

Selected Experience:  

Editorial Intern                                            Summer 2006

 North Atlantic Books, Berkeley, CA

•    Operated as a project editor, and finalized three books for publication:

•    Lessons Out of School by Dr. John Upledger (autobiography),

•    Dude, Where’s my Black Studies Department? by Cecil Brown (nonfiction)

•    Westport Poems by Jonathan Towers (poetry)

•     Helped make acquisition decisions and attended sales meetings

Teacher & Coordinator                                   Feb 2004-May 2007

SPACE (Space in Prison for the Arts and Creative Expression)

•    Facilitated writing workshops in all security levels of the Rhode Island Adult Correctional Institution

•    Coordinated the program in its second year of existence, 2004-2005

•    Designed, published and printed the biannual Zine of inmate’s writing and artwork

•    Organized yearly fundraising events.

Teacher                                        Summers 2001-2004

Summerbridge/Breakthrough Program, Denver, CO & San Francisco, CA

•    A ten-week academic program for underprivileged middle school students

•    Taught English, Literacy, Science, and English as a Second Language

Skills and Interests:

Web Design

•    Creative Hypertext Writing: An Ahistory of Violence accepted for publication at www.bigbridge.org in The War Papers Feature thru 2008

•    Personal website: www.jedicist.org

•    Founding and active blogger: www.pinkoscopies.org

•    Adobe Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Pagemaker, Microsoft Publisher, Linux, HTML

South Asia

•    Lived in Varanasi and North India in the Spring of 2006

•    Awarded the Arnold Fellowship to work with The Writer’s Workshop in Kolkata

Music—Tabla Drums (Classical Indian Percussion)

Languages—Intermediate Spanish, Beginning Hindi, Beginning Bengali