CURRICULUM VITAE
EDUCATION
2026 (expected) Ph.D., University of California, Davis, Performance Studies (Science and Technology Studies)
2011 M.F.A., San Francisco State University, Creative Writing
2000 B.A., San Francisco State University, English
GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS
2025-2026 Fellow, Russell J. and Dorothy S. Bilinski Fellowship, UC Davis
2024 Fellow, Sarah Pettit Doctoral Fellowship, Yale University
2024 Grant, Ellen Hansen Memorial Scholarship, Women's Resources and Research Center
2023 Grant, Summer Research Fellowship, UCD Performance Studies Program
2022-26 Fellow, California State University Chancellor's Doctoral Incentive Program
2023-24 Co-P.I., UC Humanities Research Institute, Working Group on Queer Refuge
2022-23 P.I. Davis Humanities Institute, Working Group Grant for Feminist, Queer, Trans STS
2021 Grant, UC Davis HATCH: Mellon Research Initiative in Feminist Arts and Sciences
2021 Grant, UCD Graduate Student Association Travel Award
2015 Lambda Literary Award, Lambda Literary Foundation
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2017-22 San Francisco State University, Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, Lecturer
2012-17 Pratt Institute, Humanities and Media Studies Department, Adjunct Associate Professor
INVITED TALKS
2022 “An Inclusive Approach to Sexual and Reproductive Health for Trans and Gender Diverse
Patients,” Improving OUTcomes, UC Davis Health
2021 “An Intersectional Approach to Queer and Trans Reproduction and Sexual Health,”
UC Davis School of Nursing
2020 “Queer and Trans Relationships and Sexualities,” Guest Lecture, Feminist and Gender Studies
Department, Stanford University
2020 “Queering Care and Mutual Aid,” Guest Lecture, Feminist and Gender Studies Department,
Stanford University
2017 Nonfiction Group, Lambda Literary Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Writers
2017 “Trans Lives on Screen,” Currents in Queer and Trans Media Series,
Pratt Institute
2012 “Equal Time: Gays, Media and the Myth of Equality,” Indiana University
2011 “Feminist Pornography,” University of Maryland
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2024 “Transgender Politics and Fetal Imaginaries,” Annual meeting of the National Women’s
Studies Association, Detroit
2023 “Performance as Method: Feminist Interventions in Health Justice,” Annual meeting of the
Society for the Social Study of Science, Honolulu
2023 “Feminist Performance and Social Justice Health Studies,” Annual Meeting of the American
Studies Association, Montreal
2022 “Pharmacological Futures and Queer Ecologies of Care,” European Summer School for
Cultural Studies, University of Amsterdam
2021 “Writing Bodily Intimacy in a Time of Separation,” Northeast Modern Language Association
Annual Meeting, Remote
2021 “In Our Bodies,” Performance as Practice and Research Working Group, Performing
Proximity, UCLA Performance Studies PhD Program
2021 “Writing as Research,” UC Davis Performance Studies Annual Symposium
2018 “What Would an HIV Doula Do?” Queering Care and Cure, UC Davis
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
2021-22 Graduate Researcher for Dr. Kalindi Vora (Yale) NSF Funded Research Project
Narrating Autoimmunity: Biographies of Illness
2020-2024 Facilitator, UC Davis, Feminist Research Institute, NSF Funded Program: Asking
Different Questions: Anti-racist approaches to scientific research
SERVICE AND LEADERSHIP
2022-23 Queer, Trans, Feminist STS Research Cluster, PI, UC Davis Humanities Institute
2021-22 Co-organizer, Spring Symposium, UC Davis Performance Studies Program
2020-22 Board Secretary, Small Press Traffic Literary Arts
2018 Jury Member, The Robert Giard Fellowship
2015-present Co-Founder, What Would an HIV Doula Do?
2016-18 Board Member, CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies, CUNY
2014-15 Jury Member, Millay Colony Residency, Nonfiction Category
MEDIA AND EDITORIAL WORK (SELECTED)
2006-10 Editor, Velvetpark magazine, New York
2009-10 Editor, GO magazine, New York
2005-09 On-Air Personality, The Diana Cage Show, SiriusXM, New York
2007-09 Series Regular, Here TV, New York
2001-05 Editor, On Our Backs magazine, San Francisco