Student Information
Graduate Student
Innovation in Global Development
College of Global Futures
Long Bio
I am the founder and former Board President of Austin Creative Reuse, a non-profit organization in Austin, Texas. Austin Creative Reuse's mission is to foster conservation and reuse through creativity, education and community building. I grew the organization over 9 years and after hiring the first executive director, choose to apply for the Peace Corps. I served in the Republic of Moldova as an NGO Advising Volunteer from 2017 to 2019.
Prior to this, I worked for Whole Foods Market in various leadership roles for 14 years. My last role was as the Communication Systems Global Marketing Director, in which I was responsible for social and email marketing strategy and operations, as well as user support for store/ customer communication systems. Prior to Whole Foods Market, I held various leadership and/or Individual Contributor roles supporting Marketing, Communications, Strategic Services and/or Operations working with Agilent Technologies, ESPN X Games, Nortel, North Carolina State University and First Union Mortgage.
Education
Arizona State University, Tempe AZ
Master of Science in Global Technology and Development
May 2022
NC State University, Raleigh, NCMaster of Science in Management (MSM)/ MBA
May 2001
Concentrations: E-commerce and Information Technology Management
University of North Carolina: Greensboro Greensboro, NC Bachelor of Science in Management Dec.1992; Concentration: Marketing Bachelor of Arts in Spanish; Semester study abroad: Universidad Computense, Madrid, Spain
Research Interests
Throughout my career, I have seen how technology has changed the way we do business and how organizations interact with their stakeholders. In the next part of my career, I would like to be involved in helping others to understand the past and future implications of technology on communities and the economic, political, and social development of those communities as well as to continue to support the usage of technology to assist social-entrepreneurship and organizational development. My current research focuses on national identity through digital storytelling in the Republic of Moldova.
Honors / Awards
ASU School for the Future Innovation in Society Charter Award for Masters Students for Access and Impact Fall 2021
Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship for Spring 2023
HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory) Scholar 2023-2025;
Melikian Hastings IDEA Scholar 06/2023
Melikian Center Award 06/2023
Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship for Academic Year 2023 – 2024
Professional Associations
The Association for Women in Slavic Studies
Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
Human Development & Capability Association
Service
- Virtual Service Peace Corps, Volunteer, May 2022-August 2022: Support National LEADER Network in the Republic of Moldova (RNL) in Setting up Office Suites
- Returned Peace Coprs Volunteer (NGO Advising Volunteer, Moldova 2017-2019)
- Founder Austin Creative Reuse
- University of Delaware Diamond Challenge Judge: 2018, 2019, 2020
- Sierra Club: Outings Leader 2007- 2017
Board
Founder and former Board President of Austin Creative Reuse
Industry Positions
University Design Institute, Content and Research Assistant; Tempe, AZ 2021- 2022