I have worked at Kent State University for eight years as an academic administrator, and am currently the senior academic program director for the College of Arts and Sciences’ Wick Poetry Center. The main focus of my administrative work is the day-to-day operations of the Wick Poetry Center, which is one of the leading university-connected poetry centers in the world. In addition as serving as the Center’s academic director and business manager, I also write and administer the Center’s grants (over $1,000,000 in the last decade), supervise our fellows, interns, and workers, and manage a range of our traveling exhibit projects and digital tools.