Program Leadership
WashU Healthcare in France
Since 2023, I have served as Faculty Director of WashU Healthcare in France, an interdisciplinary study abroad program that brings pre-health students to Nice each summer for a five-week immersion in French language, culture, and clinical observation. Students complete a 125-hour shadowing internship at Hôpital Pasteur and enroll in my advanced-level course The Art of Health in Nice, which explores the cultural history of Nice through the lens of health and includes academic excursions to gardens, markets, museums, and villas. My leadership has included curricular redesigns to better integrate Medical Humanities frameworks, partnerships with hospital staff and local institutions, and the reopening of the program to national applicants. The program reflects my commitment to experiential, cross-cultural learning and to cultivating humanistic insight at the intersection of medicine, language, and lived experience.
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This unique program was recently featured in Washington Magazine (October 2024). From immersive internships at Hôpital Pasteur to exploring French culture on the Mediterranean coast, discover how our students blend language skills with real-world healthcare experience.
Read more: Learning the French Way to Better Health
Mellon Humanities Collaboratory
As Postdoctoral Fellow for the Mellon-funded Humanities Collaboratory Program at Johns Hopkins, I taught and mentored undergraduate students from the Community College of Baltimore County and several HBCUs. This summer program aims to lend transparency to the research process for students in an experimental, Digital Humanities “(col)laboratory” workspace. By modeling search techniques and demystifying scholarly protocol, I guided students through the organizational and analytical obstacles of intensive research in the humanities. The program culminated with student presentations at the annual Leadership Alliance National Symposium in Hartford, Connecticut.
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Work Experience Abroad
Embracing Science & the Humanities in Paris
This Johns Hopkins Intersession course, to be taught on-site in Paris, was designed to unite students and scholars from the humanities and the sciences, with readings centered around concepts conducive to interdisciplinary dialogue: curiosity, harmony, wonder, individuality, and creativity. As program assistant to Dr. Kristin Cook-Gailloud, I helped organize our itinerary in France and led discussions as a guest lecturer. Regrettably, the trip to Paris was canceled due to the 2015 Charlie Hebdo attacks, necessitating that we re-situate the course around site visits in Baltimore and New York City.
France Terre d’Asile Internship
Sponsored by Florida State’s Center for the Advancement of Human Rights, my primary task as a summer intern was to teach basic French-language classes to asylum seekers and refugees in Saint-Denis for the French NGO France terre d’asile. I also provided translation and interpretation services (French-English), conducted research on human trafficking in France, and prepared legal documents for use at the French National Court of the Right to Asylum. Through this experience, I witnessed first-hand how language learning remains intimately connected to human rights, migration, and social justice.
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Teaching Assistant Program in France (TAPIF)
From 2008-2010, I was an English-language instructor and teaching assistant for the TAPIF program sponsored by the French Ministry of Education. As an assistante de langue, I taught and assisted teachers in English-language classes for French schoolchildren (CE1–CM2) at the école primaire level in 4 local schools in Bar-le-Duc, France (Académie de Nancy-Metz). During this two-year stint in Lorraine, I also lived with two different French families as an au pair.