EDUCATION
Ph.D., ASPECT: The Alliance for Social, Political, Ethical, and Cultural Thought
Virginia Polytechnic and State University, 2018
Graduate Certificates: Material Culture and Public Humanities, Women’s and Gender Studies, Preparing
the Future Professoriate (Critical Pedagogy)
M.A., Appalachian Studies, Concentration: Music
Appalachian State University, 2013
B.F.A., Creative Writing, Concentrations: Creative Non-Fiction and Folklore
Goddard College, 2010
PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS
Asheville Community Yoga, 250 Hour YTT (anticipated Fall 2023)
Mental Health First Aid, Trainer (completed January 13, 2021-current)
Available to provide Adult and Youth Mental Health First Aid training (online, blended or in person) to communities, companies, and other groups.
Kunga Yoga (200 YTT, 300 course work) In Balance Yoga, Blacksburg VA (2018)
EXPERIENCE
Programming and Outreach Librarian, McDowell County Library (July 2023- present)
Community Researcher, SEED Project, Virginia Tech (June 2023-August 2023)
Virginia Rural Health Association; Project Coordinator (2021-2023)
Dept. of Engineering Education, Virginia Tech | Community Development and Research Partnership Specialist (2021)
Instructor, Appalachian State University (2020)
Presidential Pathways Teaching Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, Dept. of Religion and Culture/Office of Diversity and Inclusion, Virginia Tech (2018-2020)
Instructor, Department of Religion and Culture, Virginia Tech (2013-2018)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
COURSES INSTRUCTED (Virginia Tech unless noted)
Mentor, Field Study (Intersectionality at Work in the Women’s Center, VT)
Undergraduate Independent Studies and Honors Studies:
Topics: Mental health in Appalachia, The Efficacy of Cultural Programming, Food as a Tool for Community Building, Equity and Inclusion in on Campus Women’s Centers.
Graduate Independent Study:
Bluegrass in America
Appalachia in Film (Appalachian State University)
Appalachian Diversity (Appalachian State University)
Bluegrass Music: Appalachian Roots and Influences (Instructor of Record)
Theories of Popular Culture (Instructor of Record)
Southern Music: Power, Place, Identity (Instructor of Record)
Introduction to Appalachian Studies (online and in-person, traditional semester, winter semester,
and summer sessions, Instructor of Record)
GTA: Appalachian Communities, History of the Modern World, Musical Theater, Popular
Culture: Television
AWARDS AND GRANTS (personal)
2023 Waymakers Collaborative Radical Rest Grant ($2000)
2019 Rosenberg Bluegrass Scholar of the Year Award, International Bluegrass Music Association ($500)
2017 Faculty Scholar, Graduate Teaching Academy for Excellence, Virginia Tech
2017 Edward A. Bouchet Graduate Honor Society, Yale University
2016 University Graduate Teaching Excellence | Instructor of Record Award
2016 Founding Fellow, Graduate Academy for Teaching Excellence (GrATE)
2016 Global Perspectives Program, Riva San Vitale, Switzerland
2016 Appalachian Sound Archives Fellow, Berea College
2015 Favorite Faculty Award, Virginia Tech
2015 Undergraduate Research Institute Grant, Virginia Tech
2014 ASPECT Travel Fund
2015 Diversity Scholar, Virginia Tech
2013 Leadership Bluegrass Graduate, International Bluegrass Music Association
2012 Anne and Alex Bernhardt Appalachian Music Scholar, Appalachian State University
2011 Ed Cabbell Appalachian Studies Endowment Scholarship
2011-2016 Appalachian Studies Association Conference Scholarship Recipient
LEADERSHIP
2023 Waymakers Collaborative, Member
2023 Member, Historic Preservation Commission, McDowell County NC
2022 James River Association Focus Group
2022 United Way SWVA, TICN member, Education and Training Committee member
2021-2024 Appointed Member, Leadership Bluegrass Committee (International Bluegrass Music
Assoc.). Developed training content and facilitated DEIA, Education, and Health and Wellness panels.
2020 Assistant Facilitator, Leadership Bluegrass, Nashville, TN
• Supported facilitation, event planning, interpersonal communication.
2020 Search Committee, Musicology (2020) and Music Theory (2019)
2019 Facilitator, Dialogue on Race Montgomery County VA
2018- Chair, Appalachian Studies Association Ad-Hoc Dependent Care Committee
Developed and implemented the first associational grant initiative to support caregivers with conference expenses.
2019 Review Committee Member, Edward A Bouchet Society
2018 Member, Women’s Council, International Bluegrass Music Association
2019 Advisory Board, VT Grad School Office of Recruitment, Diversity, and Inclusion
2018- Education Committee, Appalachian Studies Association
2017 Facilitator, Appalachian Service Training for Family Counseling Services and Psychological Clinicians in southwestern Virginia, Participant,
2017 Harm Reduction Workshop: Naloxone, Syringe Exchanges, and Social Justice
2017-2021 At Large Member, Appalachian Studies Association Steering Committee
2016 Virginia Tech “Beyond Boundaries” Advisor to the President
2015 Co-editor, SPECTRA: The Social, Political, Ethical, and Cultural Theory Archives
2014 Trainee, Community and Direct-Action Organizer, successfully completed (Virginia Organizing)
2013 Graduate, Leadership Bluegrass Program
RESEARCH PRODUCTS
BOOK MANUSCRIPTS
Katrina Powell, Resettled: Narratives of Beginning (Again) in Appalachia, published by Voice of Witness. Providing interviews, timelines, contextual information, and pedagogical tools, featuring the stories of three McDowell County residents.
PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
2022 Tawni Paradise, Malle R. Schilling, Jake Grohs, and Jordan L. Laney, "Teacher Experiences in a
Community-Based Rural Partnership: Recognizing Community Assets" (MS #1316), Journal of Pre-College Engineering Education Research (J-PEER): https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/jpeer/vol12/iss1/3
2015 “Interview with Wendy Brown” SPECTRA (with Anthony Szczurek) https://spectrajournal.org/articles/10.21061/spectra.v4i2.258/print/
2013 "From Documentary Films to You Tube & Folkstreams: Interview with Filmmaker Tom Davenport." Barbour, Kehren, G. Marc Bentley, Cary Curlee, Kathryn Engle, Kristin M. Hyle, Victoria Krueger, Jordan Laney, William Lindley, Joshua Roe, and Lynn Moss Sanders. Appalachian Journal (2013): 78-101.
PUBLISHED BOOK CHAPTERS
First/sole author unless otherwise noted.
Forthcoming: Conversations in Community Change: More Voices from the Field
edited by Max O. Stephenson, Jr., and Cathy Grimes.
2023 The Middle of Somewhere: Rural Education Partnerships and Innovation, Ed. Sarah L Lartman and Bob Klkein, “School-Industry-University Partnerships to Support Engineering Pathways for Rural Youth”, Grohs, Schilling, Laney, Kirk, Matusovich. Harvard Education Press.
2018 “The Unnoticed Contextual Realities of Hillbilly Elegy,” RE: Reflections and Explorations: A Forum on Deliberative Dialogue Edited by Max Stephenson Jr. and Lyusyena Kirakosyan (213–22).
2018 “What Machine Kills Fascists? A Critical Reflection on the Political Power of Sound in the Trump Era,” RE: Reflections and Explorations: A Forum on Deliberative Dialogue Edited by Max Stephenson Jr. and Lyusyena Kirakosyan (173–80).
2018 “Keeping our Hands on the Plow: A Personal Reflection on Organizing and Empowering Mountain Youth,” RE: Reflections and Explorations: A Forum on Deliberative Dialogue Edited by Max Stephenson Jr. and Lyusyena Kirakosyan (148–54).
2018 “Beyond (internal) Colonization, Blame and Binaries: Towards a Relational Economy,” RE: Reflections and Explorations: A Forum on Deliberative Dialogue Edited by Max Stephenson Jr. and Lyusyena Kirakosyan (14–20).
2016 “Beyond (internal) Colonization, Blame, and Binaries: Working Towards a Relational Economy,” RE: Reflections and Explorations Essays on Politics, Public Policy, and Governance Edited by Max Stephenson Jr. and Lyusyena Kirakosyan.
2016 “Person & Place: Thoughts on the Radical Possibilities of an un-Fixed Polis,” RE: Reflections and Explorations Essays on Politics, Public Policy, and Governance Edited by Max Stephenson Jr. and Lyusyena Kirakosyan.
CREATIVE WRITING
2021 “The Matron” Pine Mountain Sand and Gravel Spring/Summer 2021
2020 “How to Care” Pine Mountain Sand and Gravel Fall/Winter 2020
2019 “Upon Returning Home” Still Poetry Competition Finalist
2019 “Praying in Tiny Kitchens” Dinner Bell Magazine (poetry)
2019, 2021 Appalachian Writers Workshop Participant, Hindman Settlement School, Hindman KY
PUBLISHED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
2018 Harrison, Anthony Kwame, Jordan Laney, Erin Lavender-Stott, Darren Maczka, Amy Nelson. “Conversation: Facilitating Difficult Conversations in the Classroom (Co-sponsored by the Academy of Teaching Excellence (ATE) and the Graduate Academy of Teaching Excellence (GrATE)” at VT (33-35) Conference on Higher Education Pedagogy Proceedings.
2015 Saffle, Michael and Jordan Laney. “’Rising Appalachia’ and Traditional Folk/Pop as Social Protest”. KISMIF Conference Proceedings Book (Online), 2015. http://ler.letras.up.pt/site/default.aspx?qry=id022id1462&sum=sim
BOOK REVIEWS
Ethnomusicology and Folklore Handbook by Lisa Gilman and John Fenn
Journal of Folklore and Education Volume 7 (2020): 151.
"Appalachia in Regional Context: Place Matters ed. by Dwight B. Billings and Ann E. Kingsolver (review)." Journal of Southern History, vol. 85 no. 2, 2019, pp. 485-486. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/soh.2019.0094
Sweet Dreams: The World of Patsy Cline, edited by Warren R. Hofstra, Appalachian Journal (2014): 158-159.
FILM REVIEWS
“LINEFORK”. Film review. Journal of the Society for American Music. Volume 12, Number 3. (August 2018) (pp. 378-380)
Meredith Doster, Mark Freed, Tom Hansell, Fred J. Hay, Phil Jamison, Rebecca Jones, Steve Kruger, Jordan Laney, Trevor McKenzie, John Cloyd Miller, Natalya Weinstein Miller, Ron Pen, Emily Schaad, Leila Weinstein, and Dave Wood. "Appalachian Music Films: From Appalshop to Zwigoff" in Appalachian Journal: A Regional Studies Review V. 42 No. 3-4, Spring/Summer 2015.
Films reviewed: "Bluegrass Country Soul," "High Lonesome: The Story of Bluegrass Music," "Lily May Ledford," and "Sunnyside of Life."
ALBUM REVIEWS
“Listening to the Knott Country Patriot: Appalachian Hip Hop and Digital Possibilities”. Reviewed Work: Goodbye, Knott Central. Journal of Appalachian Studies. Vol. 23, No. 2 (Fall 2017), pp. 278-280
WEBSITE REVIEWS
The Bluegrass Situation. Journal of Appalachian Studies. (Fall 2020)
PUBLIC WRITING
2017 “What Machine Kills Fascists: A Critical Reflection on the Political Power of Sound in the Trump Era.” Reflections and Explorations (blog hosted by Virginia Tech’s Institute for Policy and Governance). (February 18, 2017).
2016 “Locations of Knowledge Production: Exploring the Collisions of Place-Based Pedagogy in the Global Context,” Global Perspectives Report, published by the VT Grad School.
2016 "The Unnoticed Contextual Realities of Hillbilly Elegy" Reflections and Explorations: A Graduate Student Commentary (blog hosted by Virginia Tech’s Institute for Policy and Governance). October 10, 2016
2016 “Hashtag Heartwork: Notes on the Relationship between Place and Identity,” Reflections and Explorations: A Graduate Student Commentary (blog hosted by Virginia Tech’s Institute for Policy and Governance).
2016 “Beyond (internal) Colonization, Blame, and Binaries: Working Towards a Relational
Economy,” Reflections and Explorations: A Graduate Student Commentary (blog hosted by Virginia Tech’s Institute for Policy and Governance).
2015 Virginia Tech LGBTQ+ Oral History Project: Conducted interviews of the LGBTQ+ community at Virginia Tech. These interviews are now available to the public through the Special Collections website. (specific contributions: Dolly Davis and Howard Friertag)
2014 “Person & Place: Thoughts on the Radical Possibilities of an un-Fixed Polis,” Reflections and Explorations: A graduate Student Commentary (blog hosted by Virginia Tech’s Institute for Policy and Governance). May 8, 2014.
TRADE PUBLICATIONS
Joe Mullins, Bluegrass Unlimited, Cover Article Forthcoming, April 2021
The Bluegrass Situation: “Women in Bluegrass,”, contributor, 2017
“Warning Signs” Breaking Grass, Mountain Fever Records, liner notes (global distribution), 2017
Bluegrass Today: “VA Tech Students at Bristol Rhythm and Roots” (2015), “More from Red, White and Bluegrass ‘14” (2014), “Friday at Houstonfest 2014” (2014), “Saturday at Houstonfest 2014”,
Gathering album liner notes. (global distribution) 2014
Put My Pretty Little Shoes Away, Audio Documentary, limited distribution. Served as a companion media piece to undergraduate thesis. 2011
“Seven ‘till Eleven: Old Fort Mountain Music” a self-published chapbook with national distribution, created as part of the Lo-fi publishing working group at Goddard College. 2008
WORKS IN PROGRESS (PUBLICATIONS)
BOOK MANUSCRIPTS
In the Beginning: Bill Monroe, Nostalgic Narratives, and the Politics of Belonging (in conversation with publishers)
Real and Imagined: Ecology of home in the Appalachian Borderlands
CREATIVE
Fieldnotes from Decoration Day, creative non-fiction (under review)
Woven: Reflections on Place and Body, collection of essays and prose poems
(in progress)
ACADEMIC ARTICLES
Kirk, Gary, Karen Gilbert. “Factors for Collaboration in Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships”
Single Author:
“By the Numbers: A Mixed Method Analysis of Gender Representation within
Bluegrass Music”
“Branding Bluegrass: Getting by in the Neoliberal Scene” (article)
“Mac Wiseman’s 1973 Renfro Valley Bluegrass Festival: Full Stage Transcription”
“Performances of Social Mobility and Temporality: the Knoxville Grass (1970–1985)”
PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS / SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
2023 “The Music of Old Fort, NC” The 150 Project; Old Fort’s Sesquicentennial Celebration
2022 “Trauma Informed Communication and Language” New River Valley/Mount Rogers Health District Peer Summit
2021 MOSS Arts Center, Flight or Refuge: An academic response to the Center’s 2020-2021 theme.
2020 International Bluegrass Music Association, “Appalachian Roadshow and the Importance of Storytelling”
2018 “All that we are we owe” Virginia Tech Graduation Speaker (Winter 2018).
2018 “Excelling in Borderlands and Beyond” keynote speaker, VTConnect Luncheon for 1st Gen College Students.
2018 “This I Believe” featured speaker, Virginia Tech Graduate School Conference Blacksburg, VA
2016-2020 Instructor, Appalachian Identity and Stereotypes, Diversity and Inclusion Training for VT
Faculty and Staff (hosted by the VT Office for Diversity and Inclusion)
2017 Appalachian Service Training for Family Counseling Services Psychological Clinicians, VT
2017 Organizer, Grassroots Training Workshop with Virginia Organizing at the Appalachian Studies Association Conference. Free and open to the public
2016 Presenter, “Experiences of Appalachian Students” to the Virginia Tech Faculty Senate (March 2)
2016 “Appalachia and Mental Health” Family Therapy and Clinical Health Program of VT in the Department of Human Development (January 28)
2015 “The Tricky Socio-cultural Context of Service” Appalachian Service Project: Lead workshops to assist ASP leaders in cultural competency and critical economic studies before their service trips.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL)
2021 National Congress on Rural Education in Canada Conference (co-authored on “Asset Based Pedagogy in Rural Appalachia” by Malle Shilling)
2019 “Bluegrass Pedagogy Panel” Society of Ethnomusicology, November 7-10,
2019 “Festival Driven, Community Created: The Second Birth of Bill Monroe” American Folklore Society
2019 “The City or the Country: Mythical Locations in Bluegrass Music” South Atlantic Modern Language Association
2019 "Bluegrass on the Red Carpet: Examining Recognition and Awards in the Bluegrass Music Genre" Appalachian Studies Association Conference
2017 Co-facilitator, Community Conversations, "The Future of the Appalachian Studies Association Conference" Appalachian Studies Association Conference
2018 “Community Conversations: Envisioning a Future, Together” Community Conversation Sponsored by Steering Committee, Facilitated by Jordan Laney and Meredith Doster, Appalachian Studies Association
2019 “Reflective Archiving and Ethnographic Methods as Activism” SAMLA panel
organizer, presenter
2018 “Invisible Illusions: An Examination of the Inclusive Traditions in The Invisible Comes to Us by Anna and Elizabeth” American Folklore Society
2018 Conversation: Facilitating Difficult Conversations in the Classroom (Co-sponsored by the Academy of Teaching Excellence [ATE] and the Graduate Academy of Teaching Excellence [GrATE] at Virginia Tech). Conference on Higher Education Pedagogy and Teaching Large Classes. Invited Panelist
2018 “Appalachian Feminism(s) and Rurality- Place, Placemaking, and Praxis.” Rural Women’s Studies Association.
2018 Panel Organizer, (Convener) Conversations on Hope in a Hostile (Educational) Climate and Tools for Empowerment through Appalachian Studies: Part 1: Convener, Part 2: Panelist. Appalachian Studies Association Conference
2017 “Trade Publications as Folklore as a (Political?) Performance of Place” SAMLA
2017 Chair, IBMA Bluegrass Symposium. “Institutions and Narratives”
2017 “Examining Feminism in Appalachia through Contemporary Issues: A Discussion of Intersections and Place (Roundtable)” Appalachian Studies Association Conference
2017 "Re-historicizing Our Romance with Bill Monroe: The Unfinished Story of Carlton Haney’s and Ralph Rinzler’s Contributions to the Creation of the 'Father of Bluegrass'” American Folklore Society Conference, panel sponsored by the AFS Music Section
2016 “Higher Education Institutions as Regional Innovators” presentation at the Swiss Embassy, Washington DC (June 16th, 2016) as part of the Global Perspectives Program through Virginia Tech in collaboration with the University of Basel
2016 “Examining Feminism in Appalachia through Historical Scholarship: A Discussion of Women of the Mountain South.” Appalachian Studies Association
2015 “Across Space and Time: Carlton Haney’s Multi-Genre Influence and Vision,” International Association of Country Music Scholarship
2015 “Sick No More: Singing a Musician Home in the New River Valley of Virginia” (co-presented with Betty Fine) Appalachian Studies Association
2015 “Many Mountains, Many Musics, Many Movements: Hip Hop in Appalachia” Moderator, Appalachian Studies Association
2015 “From Lawn Chairs to Bar Stools: Notes on the Relationship between Bluegrass Festivals, Space, and Neoliberal Place-Making,” International Association for the Study of Popular Music-US
2014 “Migration and Memory: The Bluegrass Mapping Project in McDowell County, North Carolina.” International Association for the Study of Popular Music-US (IASPM-US).
2014 “How the Soundscape of Rising Appalachia Transcends the Borders of a ‘Filthy Dirty South.’” Appalachian Studies Association
2013 “Notions of Nations: Exploring Networks, Nationalism, And New Songs in Bluegrass Music.” Appalachian Studies Association Conference
2012 “Soundscapes and Sidemen: George Shuffler and Herb Lambert of Burke County, North Carolina.” Appalachian Studies Association
REGIONAL CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2022 “Recovery Housing Challenges and Successes” Virginia Rural Health Association Conference.
2016 “Political Ecology in Hostile Spaces: Networks of Tactical Solidarity for the Neoliberal Anthropocene” Dimensions of Political Ecology (DOPE) chair, organizer and panelist with Tim Luke, Adrian Parr, Gabriel Piser, Andrew Scerri, Christian Matheis.
2015 "Building Bill Monroe: An analysis of Ralph Rinzler and Carlton Haney's Constructive Practices." South Atlantic Modern Language Association
2013 “User Generated: Exploring the Bluegrass Nation’s Shift from Front Porches to Politicized Cyberspaces.” The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Music and the Global American South Conference: Southern Sounds/Out of Bounds
2013 “Form and Function: Understanding Folklore through Technology” South Atlantic Modern Language Association
POSTER PRESENTATIONS
2016 “‘Rule 7: The Only Rule Is Work’: An Unconventional Path to Thriving in Higher Education,” poster, 2nd Annual Commonwealth Graduate Education Day, College of William & Mary.
2012 “The Bluegrass Mapping Project: Marion, North Carolina” poster, Appalachian Studies Association Conference, Boone NC
ARTISTIC/CREATIVE WORK
2020 Writer, Joe Mullins biography, public relations materials, and article length biography for trade publication.
2020 Consultant, Appalachian Road Show Tribulations. Provided copy for spoken word portions of the recording and consulted on musical history and cultural context.
Ongoing Serve as an independently assistant in collaborations, artist travel, liner notes,
song repertoire and provide consultation services to musicians.
2017 Coordinator. “Coalition building and cross-generational conversations between regional leaders.” approx. 50 participants, hosted at VT, facilitated by Virginia Organizing (March 2017)
2017 Coordinator. Booking, publicity, and merchandise for LoFidel and Sheisty Khrist (Kentucky Hip Hop artists) at the She-Sha Hookah Lounge, kicking off the Appalachian Studies Assoc. Conference.
2016-present Founded and assist in coordinating a gathering of bluegrass music educators in
higher education. This event takes place at the annual International Bluegrass Music Association Conference (commonly known as the “Laney Luncheon”)
2016 Co-ordinated the performance of the operetta, Dust in the Bottomland at Virginia Tech in collaboration with CV. The resulting podcast is publicly available: https://soundcloud.com/andy-morikawa/dust-in-the-bottomland
2015 Coordinator. “Fifty Years after Fincastle: Celebrating Carlton Haney and the First Multi-day Bluegrass Festival,” an edutainment panel at the International Bluegrass Music Organization’s annual gathering, “Wide Open Bluegrass.” The event featured materials from the Appalachian State University Archives, the International Bluegrass Music Museum, personal collections, and performers Sam Bush, Charlie Cushman, the ETSU Pride Band, and Morehead State University with Raymond McLain, Mark Schatz, Sierra Hull, and Fred Bartenstein.
SERVICE
2023 McDowell Historic Preservation Commission
2023 McDowell, NC Resilience Council
2023 Initiated and convened a rural health book club for staff, VRHA
2022 SWVA United Way TICN member
2022 SWVA United Way Education and Training Committee
2021 Community Listener, “Monuments” exhibit at the Moss Arts Center.
2021 Lead donations-based yoga courses for the In-Balance Yoga Studio Diversity Scholarship, monthly
2021 International Bluegrass Music Awards, Writer of the Year Award Committee
2021 ASPECT graduate conference, panel discussant
2021 Judge, Graduate Research Symposium VT
2021 First Gen Book Club and Interview with Tara Westover
2020 Inclusive Teaching Practices for Incoming GTA’s (two online workshops)
2020 Digital Collection Curator, Appalachian Studies Association
2019 Volunteer, Farm Hand, Pine Mountain Remedies (CBD Hemp)
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Member: Southern Appalachian Writers Cooperative (2021- )
Independent 6-week ancestral healing course with Jardana Peacock.
Completed trauma-informed yoga trainings for pre-natal and senior populations, IBY 2021
Attendee: Expanding Pathways to Recovery! Model Re-Entry Programs for Individuals on Medication Assisted Treatment Region III Virtual Town Hall, Activity of the Region 3 Federal-State-Local Stakeholders’ Opioid
Attendee: Rural Summit, Appalachian Opioid Crisis Support
Attendee: Communities Beyond Crisis: Participatory Action Research as a Transformative Pathway to Progressive Planning and Policymaking, The New School
Resilient Workshop (21-day course with Jardana Peacock for community leaders and activists)
Pauletta Hansel: Draft to Craft (6 week writing intensive course x3)
Pauletta Hansel: Memoir Writing (6 week writing intensive course)
Pauletta Hansel: Manuscript Development Course (6 week writing intensive course)
The Driven Yogi (6-week professional development course)
Astrology Level 1 Certification, Debra Silverman
MEMBERSHIPS & ASSOCIATIONS
American Folkore Society
Appalachian Studies Association
Appalachian Center for Hope Working Group
Dimensions of Political Economy Working Group
Edward A. Buchet Society, Yale University
Giri Yoga Collective
In Balance Yoga Studio
International Association for the Study of Popular Music
International Bluegrass Music Association
International Foundation for Bluegrass Music
Mcdowell County Historic Commission
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP- McDowell Chapter)
Resilient McDowell
SWVA United Way Trauma Informed Care Network (TICN)
Southern Appalachian Writers Cooperative (SAW)
South Atlantic Modern Language Association
South East Women’s Studies Association