Board Member

I am an award-winning writer, teacher, artist, and mentor. I am curious. Creative and analytic. I love to: brainstorm, collaborate, think, and act on dreams and new ideas. I bring 20 years experience in higher education in the fields of rhetoric, professional communication, and women and gender studies. I have studied organizational communication, participated in shared leadership in feminist and community-based organizations, and consulted justice-oriented organizations and grant-funded collaborations. In my capacities as a writer, editor, activist, organizational leader, and artist, I have been involved in innovative collaborations for change in the academy and in community.

As an interdisciplinary scholar, I authored Zines in Third Space: Radical Cooperation and Borderlands Rhetorics (Suny, 2012) and co-edited Precarious Rhetorics (Ohio State Press, 2018) as well as Feminist Pedagogy: Looking Back to Move Forward (Johns Hopkins Press, 2009). I have chaired dozens of dissertations, taught undergraduate and graduate courses, collaborated on critical and creative projects for change, and offered community workshops.

My multimedia and photographic art has been exhibited internationally and across the US and published as book covers, in journals, and in magazines. Working through the principles of what I term “art as coalitional gesture,” I have developed participatory art projects as community interventions and as acts of solidarity. I serve on the Board of Directors for Arts+Feminism, BorderLinks, and the Primavera Foundation, am Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Arizona, and Editor Emeritus of Feminist Formations.