Speaker, Central Washington University Women in Jazz Day, 2024 & 2018.
Adjudicator, Oregon State Jazz Championships, Mt. Hood Community College, 2024.
Curator, Jazz Reading Session, Washington Music Educators Association, Yakima, WA, 2024.
Earshot Jazz Board Member, 2023-present.
Eclectic Strings Committee Member, American String Teachers Association, 2021.
Labor of Love: Art and Healing Grant recipient, MLK Labor & Washington State Labor Council, 2021.
Jazz Curriculum Officer, Washington Music Educators Association, 2020-2021.
Essentially Ellington Finalist, Seattle JazzED Ellington Ensemble, 2020.
Jazz Educator of the Year, Seattle Women in Jazz, 2018.
Director, EBMEA High School Orchestra Festival, 2018.
Expanding Opportunities to Learn Jazz in Afterschool Taskforce, Jazz at Lincoln Center, 2018.
Director, Washoe County Middle School Honor Band, 2017.
Alumni Award, University of Washington
Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, 2016.
Eclectic Styles Reading Session Conductor, American String Teachers Association, 2016.
Plenary Speaker, Montana Music Educators Association, Billings, MT, 2016.
Lead Writer/Piloter of the Seattle Public Schools Common Curriculum and Assessments in Secondary Music, 2016.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2016-2024
Education Director, Seattle JazzED,
Seattle, WA
2012-2023
Director, Girls Ellington Project and Girls Jazz Day, Seattle JazzED, Seattle, WA
2008-2016
Director of Bands, concert and jazz, Washington Middle School, Seattle, WA
2004-2007
K-8 general music, choir, musical theater director, St. Patrick School, Rodeo, CA,
and St. David School, Richmond, CA