Writer / Personal Improvement Paraeducator
Allie is a published author with an MFA in Creative Nonfiction. She decided to pursue nonfiction, specifically personal essays, in an attempt to unpack and examine her experiences with power, agency, and mental health. Most of her work grapples with themes of self-acceptance, personal growth, and trauma dynamics.
Allie is a freelance writer, penning newsletters, blogs, web copy, and social media content, most recently for a spiritual publishing house, as well as a restorative holistic physician. She often crafts content about mindfulness, intention, how to harness consciousness, and the importance of grounding.
She also works in a high school as a Personal Improvement Paraeducator, helping students who have been identified as struggling academically, socially, and/or emotionally. While initially hired as a literacy specialist, Allie’s interest in her student’s personal lives and personal growth has lead her to become a fierce advocate for their social emotional wellbeing and overall mental health. She works diligently to provide students (and staff) with the language to best communicate complex problems and to find solutions to the troubles inner work tends to activate.
She has spent the last decade working in and out of high school and college writing centers. In 2018 she was an integral part of the team awarded Fairfield University’s Social Partnership Grant, in an effort to bring best literacy practices to an under-resourced high school. She has presented at Northeastern Writing Center Association Conference (NEWCA) on the importance of Multimodal Writing in English classes and has spoken at Eastern Connecticut State University on how to turn lived experience into resonant narrative.