Current Employment
Employer: University of Washington - Linguistics Department
- Dates of employment: Autumn 2008
- Position: Linguistics department research assistant
- Job duties: Aiding Professor Emily Bender in the Linguistic Cues of Roles in Conversational Exchanges (LiCORICE) project: transcribing news broadcasts; researching genre, register, and speaker role identification; and assisting in the development of an automatic social tagging system for the annotation of corpora
Previous Employment
Employer: University of Washington - Linguistics Department
- Dates of employment: Summer 2008
- Position: Linguistics department teaching assistant
- Job duties: Independently teaching Linguistics 432 (Sociolinguistics I) for 7.5 hours per week, choosing readings, designing a syllabus, managing grading, writing homework/quizzes, offering at least two office hours per week, answering student emails
Employer: University of Washington - Linguistics Department
- Dates of employment: Winter to spring 2008
- Position: Linguistics department research assistant
- Job duties: Aiding Professor Sharon Hargus in the documentation of two Athabaskan languages (Witsuwit'en and Deg Xinag) by transcribing interviews, writing materials to train native speakers in the basics of transcription, digitizing translations and handwritten field notes, and organizing sound files
Employer: University of Washington - Husky Union Building Cashier's Office
- Dates of employment: Autumn 2007
- Position: Cashier
- Job duties: Accepting payments for university services, making change, writing receipts, counting money, using coin sorting/rolling machines, distributing paychecks, checking out office keys, making copies, giving out refunds, taking deposits, delivering money to the bank, answering the phone, filling money bags, doing end of day counts, locking up office/safe, setting safe alarm
Employer: University of Washington - Linguistics Department
- Dates of employment: Winter to spring 2007
- Position: Linguistics department teaching assistant
- Job duties: Lesson planning, leading two quiz sections of Linguistics 200 for four hours per week, attending lectures, managing grading for sections, contributing to exam writing and homework/quiz construction, offering at least two office hours per week, answering student emails, leading review sessions
Employer: University of Texas - Perry Castaņeda Library
- Dates of employment: Fall 2004 to summer 2005
- Position: Library circulation assistant
- Job duties: Checking books in/out, interacting with patrons, managing reserve items, labeling books, shelving, clearing the book drop, changing old item numbers to new item numbers in the computers, grouping books to be sent to other libraries, changing due date stamps, searching for lost items, serving as a member of the appeals committee, answering questions, making copies, assisting visually impaired patrons, retrieving held or recalled items, paging staff members, pulling books in need of relabelling or repair, shelf reading, accepting book donations, making trips to other libraries
Previous Volunteer Work
Employer: Deer Park High School Library
- Dates of employment: Fall 2002 to spring 2003
- Position: Student worker
- Job duties: Checking books in/out, changing stamps, cleaning up, refilling printers, making appointments for teachers, using/teaching others to use the laminating machine, accepting payment for fines, making change, answering phones, labeling/organizing old magazines for storage, answering questions, stamping/labeling new books
Employer: Deer Park Junior High Library
- Dates of employment: Fall 1999 to spring 2000
- Position: Library page
- Job duties: Shelving books, cleaning up work areas, labeling new books
Other Volunteer Work
- Serving on the University of Texas library appeals committee, a small group of student library workers who review appeals of library fines and determine whether the fines should be reduced or maintained
- Volunteering for Books to Prisoners, a Seattle-based non-profit group that provides free books for prisoners in the United States
- Manning the registration booth at the Symposium About Language and Society - Austin (SALSA)
- Volunteering at the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL) 2006
- Serving as secretary for the Linguistics Society at the University of Washington (LSUW), 2006-2007
- Serving as a member of the Northwest Linguistics Conference (NWLC) 2008 planning committee, abstract reviewing committee organizer, and refreshment committee organizer
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