Other

Positions Held:

Director, Frank and Jane Gabor West Virginia Folklife Center, Fairmont State University Fairmont, WV, Nov. 2022-Present
Folkways Reporter, Inside Appalachia, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, Charleston, WV, Apr. 2023-Present
Pre-Award Coordinator, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, Sept. 2021-Oct. 2022
Director, Morton Museum of Collierville History, Collierville, TN, Jan. 2020-Oct. 2021
Oral History, Museum, and Heritage Tourism Consultant; Musicians’ Advocate, Downtown Memphis Commission, Memphis, TN, Jan. 2018-Jan. 2020
Teaching Assistant, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, Aug. 2014-Dec. 2017
Instructor and Ensemble Leader, Real School for Music, Burlington, MA, Jan. 2009-Aug. 2013
Musician, Internationally Touring and Recording Guitarist, Singer, and Songwriter in North America, Europe, and the Middle East, Jan. 2001-Present

Service + Volunteer Work:

West Tennessee Representative, Tennessee Association of Museums, 2020-2021
Research Fellow, Tourism RESET, 2019-Present
Remote Intern, HisToury, New York, NY, 2019
Volunteer, Withers Collection & Museum, Memphis, TN, 2018-2019
Digitization Specialist for Dr. David Evans’ Personal Archive (reels, cassette tapes, and ephemera), Memphis, TN, 2017-2018
Vice President, Mid-Atlantic Chapter for the Society of Ethnomusicology, 2016-2018
Marketing & Digitization Intern, Smithsonian Folkways Records, Washington, D.C., 2013

Personal Grants + Awards:

Conference Travel Grant, Association of Recorded Sound Collections, 2023
Travel Grant, West Virginia Humanities Council, 2023
Arts Conference Expense Grant, West Virginia Department of Arts, Culture, and History, 2023
Emerging Museum Professional Award and Awards of Excellence for the Morton Museum’s 2020 Social Media Campaign and “Make History: A Workbook for Junior Historians,” Tennessee Association of Museums Conference, 2021
Fickenscher-Pace Award, University of Virginia, 2019-2020
University of Virginia Graduate Fellowship, 2013-2019
Grants for the Beale Street Stories Archive from the University of Virginia, 2018 and 2019
Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Summer Research Award, University of Virginia, 2017
Digital Humanities Fellowship, University of Virginia Praxis Lab, 2015-2016
Harriet Day Barnum Prize for Outstanding Work in Music, Smith College, 2014
Praxis Grant (for living expenses during Smithsonian internship), Smith College, 2013
Ada Comstock (full) Scholarship, Smith College, 2011-2014
Prize for Most Outstanding Music Performance, Middlesex Community College, 2011
Follett Scholarship, Middlesex Community College, 2010