Service

Leadership

• Organizer of the II SAnTINA Conference: Society for the Analysis of Cultural Topics and Linguistic Identities N’Asturies, Oklahoma State University (2023)

• Spanish Section Coordinator, Department of Languages and Literatures, Oklahoma State University (2022-)

• Founder and Vice President, Asturian Studies (2022-)

• Founder and administrator of the MLA Commons discussion group “Asturian Studies” (2021-) and “Exile Studies” (2015-)

• Director, Spanish Writing Center, Central Michigan University (2010-2012)

• Coordinator, Spanish Writing Center, Michigan State University (2007-2008)

Advisory Board

• Center for the Humanities at Oklahoma State University (2019-2023)

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

• Member, Equity Advocate Council, College of Arts and Sciences, Oklahoma State University (2022-)

• Chair, Policy Identification and Recommendation Committee, Equity Advocates Council, College of Arts and Sciences (2022-2023)

Community Engagement

• Editor in Chief and Contributor. “Asturian Studies Newsletter, Winter 2023” Substack, 11 Jan. 2023

• Editor in Chief and Contributor. “Asturian Studies Newsletter, Fall 2022” Substack, 8 Sept. 2022

• Series Organizer. Conversaciones diaspóriques (Diasporic Conversations). Series of public round tables about Asturian Studies held in the Laboral, Ciudad de la Cultura of Gijón, Spain, and funded by the Asturian Government, July 7^th and 14^th (2022) www.asturianstudies.com/diasporiques

• Member of the League of Women’s Voters of Metro Tulsa (2021-present)

• Campaign Captain for United Way Fundraiser, Department of Languages and Literatures, Oklahoma State University (2012-2018)

• Translator for Community-Engagement Project, Latino Americans: 500 Years of History. Edmon Low Library, Oklahoma State University (2015)

• Opening of an Exhibition on Don Quijote on behalf of the Spanish Embassy, Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina (2005)

• Cataloguing and Acquisitions for the Spanish Library, Džemal Bijedic University, Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina (2004-2005)

• Spanish Teacher for Refugees, ACCEM (Spanish Non-Profit Organization), Gijón, Spain (2003-2004)