-Instructor at University of Iowa and Stanford University Speech and Debate Institutes -Instructor for La Jolla High School and Preuss School communications courses and debate teams. -Extensive writing experience for arts and culture sections of California weekly publications, as well as freelance work as a music reviewer. Numerous interviews conducted over the course of the past 3 years with artists and business executives for publication. -Numerous feature and cover articles for San Diego publications, as well as editorial work for the San Francisco Chronicle and numerous California publications. -2005 graduate of UC San Diego, political theory. Experience completing graduate level research projects.