Head of Research and Reference Services
Courses Taught
- Intro to Legal Research
- Advanced Legal Research
- Advanced Legal Research: Energy and Environmental Law Focus
- West Virginia Legal Research
- Law, Social Movements, and Social Change
Publications and Research
- Free Speech in the Balance: Judicial Sanctions and Frivolous SLAPP Suits , 54 Loyola Los Angeles L. Rev. 2 (2021) (co-authored)
- De-Essentializing Appalachia: Transformative Socio-Legal Change Requires Unmasking Regional Myths , 120 W. Va. L. Rev. 823 (2018) (symposium) (co-authored) (adapted as cover story Unmasking the Appalachian Myth: Can We Bring About Transformative Change in Appalachia? in WVU Law Magazine)
- Following New Lights: Critical Legal Research Strategies as a Spark for Law Reform in Appalachia , 23 Am. U.J. Gender Soc. Pol’y & L. 573 (2015) (excerpted in Critical Justice: Systemic Advocacy in Law in Society (Francisco Valdes, Steven W. Bender, and Jennifer Hill, eds.) (2021))
- Legal Research for Public Interest Lawyering: An ALR Course Module (RIPS Law Librarian Blog May 2023)
- UN Council Resolution on Human Right to Healthy Environment: Implications for US Grassroots-Led Non-Reformist Reforms, (Oxford Human Rights Hub, Jan. 2022)
- Democratic Leadership and Transformations of Academic Law Libraries, (American Association of Law Libraries ALL-SIS Newsletter, Vol. 41, Issue 2, 2022)
- Book Review: Research Handbook on Law, Governance and Planetary Boundaries, 50 Int. J. Legal Info. 1-2 (2022)
- Is a Healthy Environment a Human Right? Testing the Idea in Appalachia, The Conversation (Jul., 2017); republished in Huffington Post (Jul. 2017)
- Food Deserts in Appalachia: A Socioeconomic Ill and Opportunities for Reform, Oxford Human Rights Hub (Oxford Human Rights Hub, Nov. 2016)
- The Future of Academic Law Librarianship, Lib. J. Peer to Peer Rev. (2015) (co-authored)
Education
- M.S.I.S., University of Tennessee, 2014
- J.D., West Virginia University College of Law, 2011
- B.A., West Virginia University, 2008
