Highlights

I love traveling and photographing my adventures. My journey is sprinkled with presentations, awards, and events. Here are some miscellaneous highlights I'm rather fond of and/or helped shape where I am at today:

2022

• 🦄 Started streaming content creation on Twitch!

2021

• ❄️ Survived the Texas Snowpocalypse

2020

• 🎉 Co-Founded Somehow Qualified with FatsackFails
• 😷 COVID-19 happened

2019

• 📣 First time on a podcast - BuiltOnAir Season 3 Episode 8
• 🚀 Launched Automators Academy
• 🎉 Co-Founded Deytah
• ⏳ Started Stream Sites

2018

• 🏎 Blessed by the gigabit: Google Fiber
• 🌙 Trifecta: Super Blue Blood Moon Total Eclipse @ Albuquerque, NM

2017

• 🌑 Great American Total Solar Eclipse @ North Platte, NE
• 📷 "Illuminate" - First photo featured in Unsplash + added to the Mac App

2016

• 🏅 Award: NAPW VIP Woman of the Year - Multimedia
• 📣 Featured in NAPW's Women 360: Member Spotlight

2015

• 🖥 Developed Media Labs for Distance Learning faculty
• 📊 Presented: Beyond PoisonPoint - Enhancing Your Course with Multimedia + Augmented Video - It's More Than Pressing Play

2014

• 🏅 Award: Superior Undergraduate Student
• 🎓 Certifications: Blackboard Admin Course Delivery & Content Management
• 📣 Recognition: UNM Anthropology Newsletter
• ⛏ Field work: Gateway to the Americas II @ on a boat in Alaska
• 📊 Presented: Inked - A 5,000 Year Old Tattooing Tradition Among Us

2013

• 📷 Became a Google Glass Explorer
• ⛏ Belize Valley Archaeological Reconnaissance Project @ San Ignacio, Belize
• ⛏ Geoarchaeology @ San Luis de Cabezón, NM with Bureau of Land Management + Office of Contract Archaeology

2012

• 🎒 Archaeological Site-Hopping for "Doomsday 2012" @ Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico + Belize
• 🔭 Transit of Venus @ Round Rock, TX
• 📖 Published the first issue of Origins + archaeological research in The Silo and AncientPlanet Online Journal
• 🎪 Coordinated ACC's 1st Annual Social Media Communication Forum
• 📣 Interviews: The Daily Lobo, "Plying Their Craft" @ UNM Art Fair + Paper.li, "Melanie Magdalena: Digital Indiana Jones"
• 🏅 Awards: Public Anthropology (+ campus recognition) + National Excellence in Leadership + Amigo Transfer Scholarship @ University of New Mexico

2011

• 🎓 Certification: Site Recognition & Documentation
• ⛏ Ethnoarchaeology @ Orange Walk, Belize
• ⛏ Colonial archaeology @ Rancho de las Cabras, TX

2010

• 🐬 Internship @ Dolphins Plus, Key Largo, FL: Marine mammal conservation + animal psychology
• 🎓 Certification: PADI Open Water Diver

2009

• ✈️ Started Origins on a plane ride from Mexico City to Austin