Assistant Professor in Rhetoric and Composition with an emphasis in Ethnic Rhetorics and Literacy Studies, California State University-Fresno PhD, Syracuse University, 2016; MA, English with a specialization in Composition, University of Central Oklahoma; BA, Psychology, University of Oklahoma. Dissertation Title: Antebellum Rhetorical Eduction at Myrtilla Miner’s School for Colored Girls: Cultural Rhetoric and Epistolary Writing at the First African American Normal School