SKILL SETS

EDUCATIONAL

  • Designed and taught synchronous and asynchronous in-person and digital curricula.

  • Highly competent and creative user of Google Drive Suite (especially Docs, Sheets, and Slides) and Dropbox for project collaborations and organization.

  • Experience user of XMind and other mind-mapping platforms for collaborative pedagogies, conceptual organization, and creative brainstorming. 

  • Experienced user of numerous digital learning platforms such as Blackboard, Moodle, and Outlook. 

  • Experienced user of webspace building and hosting platforms such as Squarespace and Wordpress.

  • Experienced with YouTube Studio and Buzzsprout for creating and hosting podcast content.

  • Committed team player with extensive ongoing experience working in leadership and/or support roles for academic organizations, professional projects, and in co-creative collaborations with colleagues. 

  • Organized large conference gatherings for professional academics. This included developing the conference theme, organizing conference presentations via digital communication and collaboration, organizing conference logistics such as schedules, catering, and on-site communication and facilitation. 

CREATIVE/FREELANCE

  • Seasoned writer and oral communicator who is capable of focusing my capacities on a particular project or discipline yet

  • Trained researcher who can incorporate and synthesize multiple disciplines, visions, and pragmatic perspectives for dynamic content.

  • Excellent reading comprehension and attention to detail for content creation, proofreading, developmental editing, and evaluation editing

  • Skilled content creator in the field of creative writing, podcast scripting and production, blogs, and longform essays.

  • Trained writer who can provide immediate and unique content for copywriting, web copy, white papers, and scripts. 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

K-12

Archbishop Carroll High School — Washington, DC

Educator — Social Justice (Theology and Religious Studies): August 2021-present.

GRADUATE LEVEL:

Union Theological Seminary — New York City, NY

Instructor – The Yoga of Ecology, Fall 2022

UNDERGRADUATE LEVEL:

Iona College — New Rochelle, NY

Instructor — Religion and the Natural World, Fall 2020 and Spring 2021

Instructor — The Story of the Universe, Spring 2021

DePaul University — Chicago, IL

Instructor — The Bhakti Movement, Winter Quarter 2021

DIGITAL COURSES:

Sequoia Samanvaya — New York City, NY

ReMembering for Life (online curriculum designer and teacher): 2018-2019

EDUCATION

Union Theological Seminary, 2020 — New York City, NY

PhD - Constructive and Comparative Theology / Religious Studies 

Dissertation: “Where Earth Meets the Divine is the Root of Devotion: Anticipatory Community and Regenerative Ecotheology in the Time of Climate Catastrophe” — 

Dissertation Committee: John J Thatamanil, Larry L. Rasmussen, Ravi M. Gupta, Cynthia Moe-Lobeda and Anantanand Rambachan

Union Theological Seminary, 2018 — New York City, NY

M.Phil - Constructive and Comparative Theology / Religious Studies 

Union Theological Seminary, 2015 — New York City, NY

S.T.M. - Constructive and Comparative Theology / Religious Studies

Union Theological Seminary, 2014 — New York City, NY

M.A. - Theology

University of Michigan, 2004 — Ann Arbor, MI

B.A. - Film and Cinema Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

ORGANIZATIONAL EXPERIENCE

2017-2018: Executive Board, Mid-Atlantic American Academy of Religion conference, New Brunswick, New Jersey, March 16-17, 2017 and March 15-16, 2018.

2013-2015: Community Organizer, Corbin Hill Food Project

2012-2014: Program Director, The Edible Churchyard, Union Theological Seminary, NYC

ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS

EDITED BOOKS:

2018 : The Future of Religious Studies: What is Our Responsibility as Public Intellectuals? Editor with Sabrina D. Misirhiralall, Ed.D and Gerald S. Vigna, Ph.D. Abingdon, UK: Routledge Studies in Religion.

GUEST EDITED JOURNALS:

2021 The Journal of Dharma Studies, Volume 3, Issue 1 (Special Issue on Ecotheology), Spring 2021.

REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES:

2018 “Ahimsa for Vaishnava Earth Ethics,” The Journal of Vaishnava Studies, Volume 26, No.2, Spring 2018: 5-17.

2018 “Larger, Freer, and More Loving: Confronting and Healing the Infection of Whiteness with Thomas Merton and James Baldwin,” Merton Annual, Volume 30, Spring 2018: 171-183.

2015 “The Spiritual Ecology of Gaudiya Vaishnavism in Praxis: The Govardhan Eco-Village,” The Journal of Vaishnava Studies, Volume 24, No.1, Fall 2015: 205-227.

BOOK CHAPTERS:

2018 Chapter 16: Conclusion: scholars of religion and the duty to speak and act, with Gerald S.Vigna, In Religious Studies Scholars as Public Intellectuals.

Editors, MisirHiralall, S., Fici. C., Vigna. J. Routledge Studies in Religion Series