CV

Please visit this Dropbox folder for a current version of my CV.

Some highlights:

• Author of multi-award winning book Our Fermented Lives.
• Owner of two successful businesses: Root (food, ferments, education, consulting) and Roots + Branches (writing + creative coaching)
• PhD in Library & Information Science (Florida State, 2015), with a focus on history, theory testing, and theory building.
• Writer with an interdisciplinary background in culinary, libraries, ecology, and history.
• Writing emphases: food, nature, travel, history, books, libraries + information use/management, education.
• Service as a Subject Matter Expert in legal cases.

More about me: 

• Regular appearances as an expert source in media outlets, and service as an Expert Witness. 
• Community-focused and history- and tradition-driven culinary work, through fermentation workshops, residencies, and a popular weekly newsletter.
  
• A creative and playful (but still rigorous!) approach to my work in all areas, which has led to exciting collaborations and a diverse range of community connections.
• Interdisciplinary academic and cultural heritage experience across institutional types, with an emphasis on special collections + archives, community outreach and exhibits, and museum administration.
• Extensive experience in education, outreach, and public programming with an emphasis on meaningful connections and audience-building
• Over a dozen single-author scholarly publications, in addition to collaborative research projects, informed by a range of disciplinary and methodological perspectives.
• Graduate, undergraduate, and continuing education instruction across the Social Sciences and Humanities (online and face-to-face).
• National and international art exhibitions.
• Extensive editorial and mentorship experience in academic publishing.