SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION

Committee Member, NCPH - National Council on Public History, Inclusion Diversity Equity Accessibility (IDEA) Committee, July 2022-Present

Committee Member, NASPA Student Affairs Law and Policy 2021 Conference Planning Committee, May 2021-December 2022

Volunteer, Program Reviewer, NASPA - Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education, 2020 Annual Conference, September 2019 

Graduate Student Representative, NCPH - National Council on Public History, Graduate Student and New Professionals Committee, Fall 2016-2020

Graduate Student Representative & Voting Member, OAH - Organization of American Historians, Committee on the Status of Women in the Historical Profession, Fall 2014-Fall 2016

SERVICE TO THE UNIVERSITY

Member, UC Free Speech Fellow Selection Committee, March-April 2021, UC National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement

UCSB Graduate Student Representative, University of California Campus Safety Symposium on Policing and Social Justice, February-March 2021, University of California Office of the President

Committee Member, Selection Committee for the Graduate Student Association Dixon-Levy Service Award, 2018-2019, UC Santa Barbara

Member, Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) Director Search Committee, May 2018-October 2018, UC Santa Barbara

Committee Member, Getman Award Selection Committee, Student Affairs, March-June 2017, UC Santa Barbara

Representative, Interpersonal and Sexual Violence Forum Meetings, September 2016-2017, UC Santa Barbara

Ad-Hoc Campus Climate Committee/BLM, Student Affairs, Fall 2016-Winter 2016, UC Santa Barbara

Graduate Student Association Representative, Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on the Status of Women, March 2012-June 2016, UC Santa Barbara

Representative, Work Group of the UC President’s Task Force on Preventing and Responding to Sexual Violence and Sexual Assault, October 2015-June 2016, University of California Office of the President

Treasurer, Public History Graduate Student Association, November 2015-August 2015, UC Santa Barbara

Graduate Student Association Representative, Office of the Ombuds Advisory Committee, September 2012-June 2014, UC Santa Barbara

Graduate Student Representative, Academic Senate Committee on International Education, September 2012-June 2013, UC Santa Barbara

Graduate Research Assistant, History Department, May 2008-December 2008, San Francisco State University

Managing Co-Editor, Ex Post Facto Journal, August 2008-May 2009, San Francisco State University

Co-Chair, Queer Law Student Association, August 2003-May 2006, Golden Gate University School of Law

Co-Chair, Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Network, September 1997-June 1999, UC Santa Cruz

Member, Rainbow Ceremony Planning Committee, 1999-2000, UC Santa Cruz

Co-Chair, Bi the Way Discussion Group, September 1997- June1998, UC Santa Cruz

Volunteer, HIV Prevention Program, April 1999-November 1999, UC Santa Cruz (co-organized campaign to provide free and anonymous HIV testing, secured by student election in 1999. UC Santa Cruz was the first campus in the UC system to provide this service)

Volunteer, AIDS Quilt Display, “Uniting Our Loved Ones, Uniendo Nuestros Seres Queridos,” May 14-16, 1999, UC Santa Cruz

Founder, UC Santa Cruz Queer Resource Center, October 1997, was one of four students who led the effort to create the Center, and hired its first Director, Deborah Abbott, who served in that capacity for 17 years

Volunteer and attendee, University of California, Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Inter-sex General Assembly and Conference (UCLGBTIA) 1998-2002

Volunteer and attendee, LYRIC Conference: Out, Loud and Proud, July 2002 and July 1998, San Francisco, California

Student representative and volunteer, NGLTF: National Gay Lesbian Task Force Creating Change Conference, 1998, Oakland, California

COMMUNITY SERVICE

Committee member, “Concert Across America to End Gun Violence,” June 2016-October 2016

Volunteer, GLBT Historical Society of San Francisco, September 2005-October 2008 

Volunteer, Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom, August 2003-June 2006 

Volunteer International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission, November 2002-May 2003 

Volunteer, Seva Foundation, Eye Charity Working to Prevent Blindness, October 2002-January 2003 

Volunteer, Triangle Speakers, Santa Cruz Chapter, September 1998-June 2000 

Volunteer, California Coalition for Women Prisoners, Santa Cruz, September 1997-June 1999 

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

ACPA: College Student Educators International, July 2020-Present

NCORE: National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in Higher Education, February 2018-Present

NASPA: Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education, September 2018-Present

SAA: Society of American Archivists, January 2017-Present

AASLH: American Association for State and Local History, June 2016-Present

NCPH: National Council on Public History, January 2013-Present

OAH: Organization of American Historians, March 2013-Present

AHA: American Historical Association, January 2010-Present

Images from Concert Across America to End Gun Violence. Photographs by Bill Allen and Bennett Barthelemy. Recording of concert can be accessed here: