EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON- DOWNTOWN, HOUSTON, TX
B.A in English Completed May 2010
Major: English
Minor: Philosophy
ACADEMIC HONORS AND AWARDS
Dean’s List
College of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Houston-Downtown – Spring 2010
Winner of 2009-2010 English Portfolio Award
Department of English, University of Houston-Downtown
Recipient of 2010 Upper-Division Literature Award
Department of English, University of Houston-Downtown
Student Representative
UH-Downtown Presidential Search Advisory Committee Dec. 2008-
May 2009
Dean’s List
College of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Houston-Downtown Fall 2008 – Spring 2009
President, Pro-Tem
Student Government Association, University of Houston-Downtown Spring 2009
Vice-President, Pro-Tem
Student Government Association, University of Houston-Downtown Fall 2008
President
Toastmasters, University of Houston- Downtown 2008-2009
PRESENTATIONS AND CONFERENCES
“Democracy in Peril: Solving the Crisis of the U.S./Mexico Border”
Paper presented at the University of Houston- Downtown “Gender Across the Disciplines” Undergraduate Conference, April 2010
“Mexican-American Civil Rights Movement”
Lecture given at Lone Star College as a supplement to U.S History from 1877 survey course, Fall 2009
“Inverting Masculinity in Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried”
Paper Presented at University of Houston- Downtown “Policing Gender” Undergraduate Conference, April 2009
“History and Legacy of the Mexican-American Civil Rights Movement”
Lecture given at Lonestar College as a supplement to U.S History from 1877 survey course, Spring 2009
PUBLICATIONS
Online Publications
Selected articles published on the BizTools.com Web site:
- “Jiwire.com- Stay Connected with Hotspot Locator”
- “How To: Lead an Effective Business Meeting”
- “How To: Plan a Successful Meeting”
- “How To: Use and Read Body Language”
- “Staff Cal- Keep Track of Your Employees”
- “TechCrunch.com- Crunch the Latest Tech News”
- “BillShrink.com- Find Inner Peace Knowing that Shrinkage is Good”
- “FTAlphaville- Follow the Financial Chatter in FT Alphaville”
News Articles
“Is the American Dream Dead?”
Published in DateLine Downtown
Newspaper for the University of Houston-Downtown: May 3, 2010
“Review: O’Kane Theatre’s Spring Production of As You Like It”
Published in Dateline: Downtown
Newspaper for the University of Houston-Downtown: April 19- May3, 2010
Scholarship Essay:
“Keeping the Story Alive: An Interview with a Hispanic Elder”
Published in the Houston Hispanic Genealogical Society Annual Journal: 2008 Scholarship Essay Contest Winner
Text Book Supplement:
“Speech of Introduction”
Helped design an instructional strategy, and performed those strategies in the Narrative Text version which accompanies the text, Public Speaking: Choices for Effective Results, published by Kendall Hunt, 2008
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
- Association for Borderland Studies
- Southern Historical Association
- Texas Historical Association
- Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States
- Western Literature Association
- Sigma Tau Delta (National English Honor Society)
- Phi Sigma Tau (National Philosophy Honor Society)
- Toastmasters
- Houston Hispanic Genealogical Society
