Artifacts

The artifacts in this portfolio were chosen as examples of the kind of work I can do, but also because each one has to do with a subject that I am passionate about, and happen to have some expertise in. Each of these topics are complex and timely, and they are concepts that the field of professional and technical communication has a vested interest in. There are artifacts dealing with subjects like social justice, semantics and language use, usability, and student use of AI-assisted technologies. You’ll find scholarly papers as well as infographics, usability and focus group studies as well as a children’s storybook. All of these written artifacts work together to build a picture of my persona as a Communication Specialist.

 

From Theory to Praxis:
How to Perform Social Justice with TPC

This artifact is an academic paper which explores how professional communicators can wield language and communication in order to move past speaking about social justice in language, and actually do social justice with language.

Corporate Diversity Education:
How Language Betrays Our Values

This artifact uses corporate documents about diversity and inclusion campaigns to explore how the language we use illustrates the way we think and feel about our values and our identities.

La Collaborativa
Usability Study

This artifact is a usability study conducted on the website for La Collaborativa, an organization based in the Boston area who provides aid and resources to the Latine community.

Student Focus Group
on ENL264

This artifact is a focus group conducted with the students of ENL264 about the curriculum and the U1 goals for the class.

O Saci
Storybook Remix

This artifact is an interactive storybook; it uses a Brazilian folktale as a vehicle to talk about language and meaning-creation.

Paris Hilton
Crisis Communication Plan

This artifact is a communication plan written in response to a fictitious crisis, written from the perspective of Paris Hilton’s PR team.

Who Educates the Educators?
Blogs about Anti-Racist Communication Education

This artifact is a collection of blog posts written through my time as a teaching fellow. They are on such topics as anti-racist education, teaching after the COVID-19 pandemic, and student use of AI-assisted writing tools.

Heroes and Language:
Using Narrative to teach Science Communication

This artifact is a collection of lessons that I developed for teaching Technical and Science Communication. They’re about audience, paradigms, and core beliefs.