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ACADEMIC TEACHING EXPERIENCE

ADJUNCT PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES
DEPARTMENT OF WORLD ARTS AND CULTURES

  • Imagining and Performing a Sustainable World – 2022-present

TEACHING FELLOW, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES

  • Imagining and Performing a Sustainable World – 2020 Spring

  • Food: A Lens For Environment and Sustainability – 2019 Fall and Winter

  • Arts Encounters – 2018 Fall

  • Yoga – 2019 Winter

ASSOCIATE TEACHING ASSISTANT, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES

  • Art as Social Action – 2018 Winter

  • Beginning World Arts Practices in South Asia and Diaspora: Yoga – 2018 Spring and Summer

 

TEACHING ASSISTANT, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES

  • Global Perspectives in Dance – 2017 Fall

  • Beginning World Arts Practices in South Asia and Diaspora: Yoga – 2017 Spring

ADJUNCT PROFESSOR, FULLERTON COLLEGE

  • Yoga – 2015 Fall-2016 Spring; 5 sections

  • Conditioning for Dance – 2015 Spring

  • Multicultural Dance in the US Today – 2014 Fall-2016 Spring; 4 sections

  • Ballet Technique – 2014 Fall

INSTRUCTOR, KØBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET

  • Hatha Yoga – Winter 2012-Spring 2014

  • Comenius Efteruddannelse Grant for pedagogical development (Copenhagen, 2013)​

ACADEMIC SERVICE

University of California Los Angeles

  • 2019 Co-Creator (with UCLA World Arts and Cultures/Dance Professor Dr. Tria Blu Wakpa) of “Balancing Parenting and Academia” discussion and advocacy group for graduate students and faculty with children

  • 2018-2019 Dean’s Council representative, UCLA School of Arts and Architecture

  • 2018-2019 Organizer/collaborator for UCLA “MindWell” pop-up art series for stress-reduction

  • 2017-2019 World Arts and Cultures/Dance Professional Development Committee

Other

  • Panel Moderator: “Funding a Dance Commons: Institutional Intentions and Performative Misfires” Dance Studies Association (DSA), Northwestern University (Aug 11, 2019 Evanston)

  • Participant, “Thought Leader” Roundtable discussion Creating Healthy Communities: Arts + Public Health in America, University of Florida Center for Arts in Medicine, UCLA (Nov 15, 2018 Los Angeles)

  • Participant, Mind, Medicine, and Culture (MMAC) Interest Group, Department of Anthropology, UCLA (2017-2018)

  • ASTR working group member, Swollen: Ordinary to Extraordinary Pregnancy and Maternity (2017)

CHOREOGRAPHY AND DANCE PEDAGOGY

ARTISTIC RESUME AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST

link to video on work with Balance Dance Company

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