Higher Education Administration

• Direct the Lilly Interns and Fellows programs that connect academic coursework, experience in a profession of interest, mentoring by a committed professional, and reflection upon service and calling.
• Instructor of coursework incorporating vocational reflection into the Lilly Interns and Fellows programs.
• Coordinate the C.A.L.L.S. program that seeks to create a welcoming and supportive community for students interested in spiritual growth, theological conversation, and discerning a call to serve and lead a religious community.
• Organize, plan and lead Immersion Experiences that offer students a new and different context for serving others, understanding themselves, and reflecting upon their calling.
• Responsible for budgeting, financial planning, and financial reporting.
• Hired and supervised over eighty-five college students providing tutoring to nearly 500 students in the Rochester City School District.
• Organized and led service learning training seminars and reflection groups.
  

Higher Education Ministry

• Lead students in group discernment of callings to ministry and service.
• Lead liturgies for groups of students, faculty, and staff.
• Provide spiritual direction and pastoral counseling to students.
• Facilitate and supervise student leaders providing a wide range of ministries through a Campus Ministry Team.
• Ordained ministerial standing in the United Church of Christ and the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).
  

Social Work

• Counseled patients newly diagnosed with HIV and cared for patients dying of AIDS.
• Assessed and linked HIV+ outpatients to local and national community resources for medication, housing, psychiatric services, and social support.
• Provided education regarding resources and the psychosocial aspects of HIV to community agencies and service providers.
• Conducted outreach, assessed mental health status, and provided case management services for homeless persons.
• Facilitated group-work designed to prevent men convicted of domestic violence from committing a re-assault.
• Advocated for mental health consumers seeking employment and negotiated solutions to workplace problems.
  

Professional Experience:

Millsaps College, Jackson, Mississippi (9/08-) Interim Chaplian,
(7/01-) Associate Director of the Millsaps Faith & Work Initiative

First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Jackson, Mississippi
(9/05-8/08) Interim Associate and Interim Senior Pastor

University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi (10/00-6/01) Social Work Case Manager, Infectious Diseases Clinic, Department of Medicine

University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi (9/96-6/00) Social Worker II, Ambulatory Medicine and HIV/AIDS Services, Social Work Department

Nazareth College of Rochester, Rochester, New York (8/95-5/96) Protestant Chaplain and Director of Partners for Learning

Finger Lakes Community College, Canandaigua, New York (11/94-6/95), Chaplain (part-time)

St. Mary’s Mental Health Center, Rochester, New York (2/95-7/95), Extended Services Case Manager (part-time)

Mental Health Cooperative, Nashville, Tennessee (9/93-6/94) Intensive Case Manager, Homeless Team

P.E.A.C.E. (Project to End Abuse through Counseling and Education), Nashville, Tennessee (11/93-6/94), Co-facilitator

Computer Knowledge:

• Experienced user of database, spreadsheet, image editing, and word processing applications for Windows and Macintosh computers.
• Design and maintain a departmental web site.
• Created and maintained databases to manage information and automate routine tasks for patient care and contact management.

Education:

Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri
Master of Social Work, 1994

Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee
Master of Divinity, 1992, Earned honors on thesis

Graceland College, Lamoni, Iowa
Bachelor of Arts in Psychology/Religious Studies, 1988
Graduated cum laude

Honors/Awards:

Merit Award 1999, for Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Social Work and Social Welfare, Mississippi Conference on Social Welfare, August, 1999.

HIV/AIDS Outstanding Service Award, University of Mississippi Medical Center Ambulatory Services Department and the Delta Region AIDS Education and Training Center, May, 1999.

Advisor of the Year, Campus Ministry Department, Nazareth College of Rochester, 1996.

Michael Harrington Fellowship, George Warren Brown School of Social Work, Washington University, 1992.

Harold Stirling Vanderbilt Scholarship, Vanderbilt Divinity School, 1989.