I am a teacher, learner, sharer, and home-brewer. As such, I am interested in the way literacies, objects, and narratives work together to create meaning within communities. So far, my research has explored literacies in writing centers and writing center assessment, often with a focus on digital literacies.  More recently I have begun to reserach the way rhetoric works within and shapes communities, specifically looking at bars.  In bars, I am interested in the way the marketing of class, gender, race, sexual identities is a part of the community and culture of the bar.During my time at Michigan State in the Digital Rhetoric and Professional Writing, I am continuing to explore these areas of research as well working at the Writing Center at MSU as the Webmaster and Writing Mentor Coordinator. I also am currently teaching first year writing. I also enjoy pizza, videogames, craft beer, and comic books and would love to talk to you about them.