My work as an educator, researcher, and writer is aimed at creating fully participatory communities. I currently serve as the Director of the Susan Hirt Hagen Center for Civic and Urban Engagement at Wittenberg University. My areas of expertise include gender, sexuality, social movements, space and place, community-engaged research and teaching, and qualitative methodologies.
Internationally, I have been a guest researcher at the Nordic Gender Institute (NIKK) at the University of Oslo and a visiting researcher at Södertörn University in Stockholm, Sweden. I am also an alumna of the Sexuality, Culture, & Society Program at the University of Amsterdam.
I am originally from the town of Marion, Ohio, the self-proclaimed popcorn capital of the world.