Jesse Rice-Evans | she/they
Experience:
OpenLab Product Manager, CUNY School of Professional Studies, October 2022 – present
0 –> 1 Product Manager for FOSS WordPress multisite installation of Commons in a Box OpenLab (SAAS) at CUNY School of Professional Studies, a leader in remote-first higher education.
Consultant + Coach, August 2016 – present
Offering educational and pedagogy training, relationship coaching, disability/access advising, and facilitated special topics courses/independent studies. Consulted on open digital pedagogy projects at CUNY SPS, NYC College of Technology, NYU Tandon, and other educational and cultural events in New York City, focusing on broad-scale access protocols for in-person and distance events during COVID-19 in particular.
Project Manager: Health & Illness Administrator, January 2013 – present
Coordinate travel to 2-5 weekly medical appts while enrolled full-time in MA and PhD programs and working multiple roles (FTE); consult 9+ medical departments and facilitate communication (medical records, updating medications, symptoms) between them; balance 200+ insurance bills with hospital fees to find true cost to patient; file insurance appeals and advocate for coverage of durable medical equipment, medication, and treatments with insurers; proven excellent time management skills; effective facilitation amongst disparate stakeholders; forensic data collection and analysis skills; researched and developed at-home physical therapy regimen for immuno-compromised patients; provide coordinated support for appointment and testing scheduling using Doxy.me, Outlook, Google Calendar, and other meeting-specific software; detailed note taking during appointments for liaising with other medical offices and practitioners; thorough knowledge of and compliance with HIPAA; maintain updated and detailed personal medical records for patient files; research symptom management, new treatments, and appropriate diagnostic and clinical models using medical databases and journals.
Digital Pedagogy Fellow, OpenLab at City Tech, May 2018 – October 2022
Workshop and Pedagogy Coordinator: Open Digital Pedagogy in Gateway Courses; Creating Your Course Site; Working With Your Students; Supporting Student Success; Getting Started on the OpenLab; Designing and Assessing Student Work on the OpenLab; Grow Your Club on the OpenLab; Provide in-person and asynchronous support to faculty, staff, and student members on WordPress, BuddyPress, course architecture, accessibility, and others; develop, submit, and present at local and regional conferences. Collaborate on instructional design and materials for college-wide adoption of distance learning during COVID-19; create multimedia support, including screencasts, audio instructions, and interactive workshop materials focused on curriculum design for distance learning and digital pedagogy.
Web Development and Documentation Fellow, CUNY Humanities Alliance, August 2019 – 2022
Provide ongoing technical support for graduate teaching fellows and students at LaGuardia Community College, including digital pedagogy development, WordPress troubleshooting and network management, and sharing best practices for accessibility, navigability, and flexibility teaching online; developing new site architecture for revamped Humanities Alliance site layout, including curating standout content from previous courses, developing intuitive and simple menus, and centering web accessibility on the CUNY Academic Commons.
Education:
M.Phil. in English | Composition & Rhetoric, CUNY Graduate Center | GPA: 4.0
M.A. in Language & Literacy, City College of New York | GPA: 4.0
B.A. in Language & Literature, UNC Asheville | GPA: 3.8
Select Research, Residencies, and Presentations:
Crazy Femme Pedagogy: Toward an Archive
Mad Scholars: Reclaiming and Reimagining the Neurodiverse Academy, 2024
How do we make interdependence work?: On Crip Time and Slowness
Society for Disability Studies Conference, with Andréa Stella, April 2021
Developing an Access Statement & Disrupting Deficit Narratives on Disability and Chronic Illness
CUNY Graduate Center Teaching and Learning Center Winter Institute, January 2021, Co-Facilitated by Jesse Rice-Evans & Sakina Laksimi
Open Pedagogy in the Classroom: Theory and Praxis
CUNY Coordinated Undergraduate Education Conference and Open Educational Resources Showcase, October 2020
Access, OER, and Open Pedagogy: City Tech’s OpenLab
CUNY Coordinated Undergraduate Education Conference and Open Educational Resources Showcase, October 2020
Host & Conference Co-Chair
Access is Not a Metaphor | English Student Association, 2020 – canceled due to COVID-19 outbreak
Counselor
Camp Access | Upgrade Accessibility, 2020
Workshop Faculty
Poets House | Queer Poetics, summer 2020
Teaching the Femme Archive
Society for Disability Studies Conference, with Andréa Stella, April 4, 2020 – rescheduled due to COVID-19 outbreak
Performer
Geographies of Gender | belladonna* collaborative reading, First Saturdays at the Brooklyn Museum, March 7, 2020
Open Pedagogy in the Classroom: Theory and Praxis
CUNY Coordinated Undergraduate Education Conference and OER Showcase, with City Tech OER Faculty Fellowship program, March 20, 2020 – rescheduled due to COVID-19 outbreak
Bridging Digital Gaps: Access on City Tech’s OpenLab, CUNY IT Conference, with OpenLab Community Team, December 5, 2019
Access Pedagogy, HASTAC Digital Fridays webinar, December 13, 2019
The OpenLab at City Tech: Community, Collaboration, and Access
CUNY DHI Lightning Talks, October 30, 2019
Current and Future Digital Projects at the CUNY Humanities Alliance
CUNY DHI Lightning Talks, October 30, 2019
HASTAC Scholar, 2019 – 2021
A Commons for Open Learning: Voices from New York City College of Technology’s OpenLab
CUNY Coordinated Undergraduate Education (CUE) Conference, with OpenLab Co-Directors and stakeholders
New York City College of Technology, 2019
Get Us Bodied: Experiments in Hybridity as Access in Crip/Queer/Crazy Bodies at the City College of New York
Computers and Writing Conference, with Andréa Stella, 2019
Performing Intersectionality in First Year Composition: Queer Theory, Feminism, and Embodiments
Conference on College Composition & Communication, with Andréa Stella, 2019
Towards a Liberatory Pedagogy: Activism and Trans Competency in the Writing Center
Northeastern Writing Center Association Conference, with Zefyr Lisowski, 2018
Between IRL and Digital Spaces: CUNY’s CompComm Faculty Playfully Collaborating
Computers and Writing Conference, Symposium on CUNY Graduate Students’ Pedagogical Strategies, 2018
Equity, Health, & Learning: Social Determinants of Academic Success
The Futures Initiative: A University Worth Fighting For, panelist, 2018
Opening the OpenLab at City Tech: Meeting CUNY’s Challenges
CUNY IT Conference, with OpenLab Community Team, 2018
Community & Academic Service:
Resources Editor, Anti-Ableist Composition Collective, 2021-present
Co-Chair, ESA Conference, 2019-2020
Committee Member, GC Access Now!, 2018-present
Co-Chair, Graduate Center Composition and Rhetoric Community, 2019-present
Co-Chair, Graduate Center Poetics, 2019-present
Doctoral Student Mentor, CUNY Graduate Center English Department, 2018-2020
President, Institute for the Emergence of 21st-Century Literacies, City College of New York, 2015-2017
Digital Projects:
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