I have been studying poetry since 2005, mostly at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA where I have taken workshops with Martha Rhodes, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Gail Mazur, David Rivard and Major Jackson. My poems have appeared in the Larcom Review, Chronogram and Dogwood: A Journal of Poetry and Prose, among others. I published a chapbook called Point of Attachment with Finishing Line Press in 2012.
I have a doctorate in anthropology from Harvard University and have held teaching and research positions in the Boston area, including Brandeis University, MIT and most recently the University of Massachusetts Boston at the McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies.
My career has been bookended by positions focused on women’s creativity, potential and power. Early in my career I served as Associate Director of the Bunting Institute at Radcliffe College and I spent most of the last decade as Director of the Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy.