Independent Event Planning & Coordination

Commerce, Local Economy, and Tourism

• Port of Walla Walla / Alaska Airlines - Walla Walla, WA (2017)

• Nelson Irrigation - Walla Walla, WA (2017)

• Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival - Walla Walla, WA (2017)

• Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival - Walla Walla, WA (2019)

California & Washington State Wine Industry

• Hospice du Rhône - Paso Robles, CA (2017)

• Auction of Washington Wines Private Barrel Tasting - Novelty Hill-Januik Winery, Woodinville, WA (2017)

• Auction of Washington Wines Private Barrel Auction - Chateau Ste. Michelle Winery, Woodinville, WA (2017)

• Hospice du Rhône - Walla Walla, WA (2024)

College Events & Conferences

UCLA Film Festival Coordinator, UCLA School of Theatre, Film and Television, 2009-2011

• UCLA Film Festival (2010)

• UCLA Film Festival (2011)

• Barbie Film Festival (2011)

Coordinator of Campus Events & Conferences, Whitman College, 2013-2017

Annual Events

• Board of Trustees Retreats (three times a year)

• Commencement Ceremony

• Baccalaureate Ceremony

• Convocation Ceremony

Conferences

• American Association of Wine Economists

• Heidigger Conference

• ACES Trauma Informed

• Undergraduate Conference & Poster Sessions (annual)

• Power & Privilege Symposium (annual)

Visiting Lecturers & Guest Speakers

• Vernā Myers, Cultural Innovator & Activist

• Connie Rice, Civil Rights Activist & Lawyer, Co-Founder & Co-Director of the Advancement Project

• Edwidge Danticat, Haitian-American novelist and short story writer

• Kathleen Woodward, Director of the Simpson Center for the Humanities at the University of Washington

• Shakti Butler, Educator, Filmmaker and Founder of World Trust

• Gustavo Arellano, Publisher & Editor, OC Weekly

• Sherman Alexie, Poet, Writer, and Filmmaker

• Hedrick Smith, Author, Reporter and Editor for The New York Times, Producer Correspondent for Frontline on PBS

• Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee, Physician, Scientist, and Author of The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (2011 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction)

• Kenji Yoshino, Legal Scholar and the Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law at New York University School of Law

• Diane Nash, iconic Civil Rights Activist

• Wade Davis, Anthropologist, Ethnobotanist, Author, Photographer, and Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society 

• Danielle Ofri, Essayist, Editor, physician at Bellevue Hospital, and Associate Professor of Medicine at New York University School of Medicine

• Mark Strand – Poet, Essayist, Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University

Coordinator of Campus Events & Conferences, Whitman College, 2022-Present

Events

• Third Space Speakers Series - Leah Patel & Sheeva Sabati (February 2022)

• Third Space Speakers Series - Scott Brooks & Nicholas Villanueva (April 2022)

• Orientation Week Event - SHIFT (August 2022)

• TriCollege Gathering - Students (October 2022)

• Third Space Speakers Series - Lissa Ramirez-Stapleton, Lisette Torres-Gerald, Alex Locust (October 2022)

• Faculty of Color Reception (October 2022)

• New Employee Reception (October 2022)

• TriCollege Gathering - Staff and Faculty (November 2022)

• DEIA Town Hall (November 2022)

• TriCollege Gathering - Students (April 2023)

• TriCollege Gathering - Staff and Faculty (April 2023)

• Third Space Speakers Series - Matika Wilbur (April 2023)

• DEIA Town Hall (April 2023)

• Inclusive Excellence Awards and Recognition Ceremony (May 2023)

• TriCollege Gathering - Students (October 2023)

• New Employee Reception (October 2023)

• Faculty of Color Town Hall (November 2023)

• TriCollege Gathering - Staff and Faculty (November 2023)

• Third Space Speakers Series - Ijeoma Oluo (November 2023)

• Factbook Town Hall (December 2023)

• Dignity and Dialogue Series - Aya Caspi and Roxanne Manning (February 2024)

• Dignity and Dialogue Series - Aya Caspi and Roxanne Manning (March 2024)

• Third Space Speakers Series - April Warren-Grice and Alma Flores (April 2024)

• Third Space Speakers Series - Connie Wun (October 2024)

• New Staff Reception (November 2024)

• Factbook Town Hall (December 2024)

• Community Learning Days - Mia Love (January 2025) Upcoming

• Third Space Speakers Series - Amanda Nguyen (March 2025) Upcoming

Conferences & Workshops

• Inclusive Supervision: How Race Impacts Supervision - Jason Timpson (March 2022)

• Northwest 5 Consortium Retreat and Conference (May 2022)

• New Student Orientation Workshop - SHIFT (August 2022)

• DEI Focus Group Sessions (October 2022)

• Community Learning Days - Rema Reynolds (January 2023)

• Supervision Training Workshop: Training Across Difference - Jamie Washington (April 2023)

• Community Learning Days - Michelle Jacob (August 2023)

• Community Learning Days - Trauma-Informed Teaching / Community Resilience Initiative  (January 2024)

• Community Learning Days - How We Engage / Communal Support Systems  (August 2024)

• TriCollege Title IX Training / Disability Disability and Accommodations Awareness Training - ATIXA President Saunie Schuster (October 2024)

• Posse Plus Retreat (February 2025) Upcoming

• Liberal Arts Diversity Officers Semi-Annual Conference (April 2025) Upcoming