Education:

Ph.D. Social Relations (Sociology/Anthropology interdiscoplinary). University of California, Irvine, 1999. Dissertation title: "BECAUSE: Riot Grrrl, Social Movements, Art Worlds, and Style". Filed with UMI/Proquest under Sociology.

M.A. (1) Comparative (American Ethnic) Culture, University of California, Irvine 1994. By comprehensive examination, no thesis option.

M.A. (2) Social Science. University of California, Irvine 1994. Qualifying Paper: "Noise at the Gate: Gender and the Los Angeles Music Underground".

B.A. Anthropology, magna cum laude UCLA 1991.

Affilitations, Teaching, and Applied Experience:

Doctoral Faculty, University of Phoenix School of Advanced Studies. 2012-present.

Assistant Professor of Sociology, Minot State University, ND. 2009-2011.

Board of Directors, Minot, ND YWCA (Domestic violence shelter/services). 2010-2011.

Lecturer in Sociology, University of North Carolina, Wilmington. 2007-2009.

Research Scholar, UCLA Center for the Study of Women, 2006-2007

Qualitative Research Manager, Phoenix Multicultural Market Research/Cultural Access Group, Los Angeles, CA. 2005-2007.

Executive Director of Access Center for Education (non-profit) and Special Education Parent Advocate, Los Angeles Area Schools. 2003-2005.

City Commissioner, Long Beach, CA Citizen's Advisory Board on Disabilities, 2005-2006.

Special Education Case Preparer and Legal Researcher (consulting). Law Offices of Benajamin Kim, Torrance, CA. 2004.

Research Scholar, UCLA Center for the Study of Women, 2001-2003.

Intructor of Sociology, California State University Fullerton. 2002-2003

Research Associate, Department of Education, University of California, Irvine. 2001.

Lecturer of Sociology, University of California, Irvine 1998-2001.

Administrative Support, Brand/Direct Response Advertising. Kaiser Permanente (National). Pasadena, CA. 1999-2000.

President, No-Fi Records, Glendale, CA 1995-2001.

Director of Press and Promotion, BOMP!/Alive Records, Burbank, CA. 1992-1997

Professional Memberships:

American Sociological Association:

ASA Sections on Collective Behavior and Social Movements

Pacific Sociological Association

Midwestern Sociological Society

Sociologists for Women in Society

Society for the Study of Symbolic Interactionism

Society for the Study of Social Problems

Current research interests: Social movements, femicide in Cuidad Juarez, Mexico, arts activism, social media and activism, Arab Spring, Occupy, Native Americans and Occupy, Occupy art, grounded theory, qualitative methods

Current teaching/administrative interests:

Qualitative methods for applied projects in business, nursing, industrial psychology and higher education administration doctoral-level research; engaged, creative, and activist online pedagogy; development of a Public Sociology Ph.D. program designed for students with applied/practitioner interests.