My service philosophy grows out of a long and deeply held desire to collaborate with others. Whether this collaboration emerges through my civic-focused teaching and research, or whether it emerges through service to my university, department, discipline, and community, my drive to work with others to bring about positive change guides everything that I do. As the inaugural Director of Writing Across the Curriculum at Saint Louis University, I am committed to integrating anti-racist, equity-minded civic engagement into the culture and community of writing at the university. Before arriving at Saint Louis University, I served as the Faculty Director for Community-Engaged Learning and Scholarship at Loyola University Maryland.

As Faculty Director for Community-Engaged Learning and Scholarship, I worked closely with the Center for Community Service and Justice (CCSJ) and the Office of Academic Affairs to provide strategic direction and support for Loyola faculty and students interested in connecting their academic work with the work of community partners. This collaboration consists of service-learning but also community-based research. As Faculty Director, I also chaired the Engaged Scholarship Committee, which joins faculty members and members of the community while also serving as the administrative body that reviews Kolvenbach grant submissions and submissions for the Faculty Award for Excellence in Engaged Scholarship.

I am integrating my work as a faculty member in the Saint Louis University Department of English and my work as Director of Writing Across the Curriculum into my service. I see writing across the curriculum as a space where students can re-engage with the core Jesuit, humanistic values developed in the new Core Curriculum and as a space where diversity, equity, and inclusion can be fostered. Read more about my service work in the public digital humanities on my Civic Engagement page.

At Loyola, I also served on the Commitment to Justice committee that sponsors a social justice panel every year. During Loyola's strategic plan initiative, I also served on Loyola’s Strategic Planning Working Group on Civic and Urban Engagement. To help serve the university in positions of increasing responsibility, I served on the Messina Advising faculty from 2013 to 2016, and I collaborated with the Sellinger School of Business and Management on an interdisciplinary e-portfolio project.

In 2016, I co-edited Commitment to Justice in Jesuit Higher Education 3rd edition with Paola Pascual-Ferrá, a book that enacts my service philosophy and showcases Loyola's dedication to bringing about positive change in our communities.