Curriculum vitae

Boone, North Carolina, USA
kylie@somas.is

Education

B.A.

Philosophy, with minor in Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies.
Capstone: “Beyond Plunderphonics: A prolegomena to any future revolutionary music.” (advised by Dr. Rick Elmore)
Class of 2024, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC

Academics

Academic memberships

Aug 2021 — May 2024: Co-president, Appalachian State Philosophical Society
2018: Member, Linux@App

Conference presentations

  • “Response to Abigail Cuttle - ‘Transforming Our Perception of Deformity: Gloria E. Anzaldúa and Zhuangzi on Wholeness, Usefulness, and Value.’” 2023 Kennesaw State University/Appalachian State University Philosophy Symposium, Kennesaw State University, November 11th, 2023.

  • “Whatever’s Left of Woman: Porn, Trans Identity, and Gender Expansivity.” 23rd Annual Southern Appalachian Undergraduate Philosophy Conference, University of North Carolina at Asheville, February 11th, 2023. First place prize winner.

Professional experience

Jul 2024 — Apr 2025: Support Services Associate, Appalachian State University Campus Store
  • Gained storefront customer experience and experience working in a retail setting, and engaging in customer service over the phone

  • Learned how to direct student co-workers and delegate tasks effectively

  • Worked with inventory management software like Oracle NetSuite

Aug 2018 — May 2024: Student IT Technician, Appalachian State Technology Support Services
  • Repairing computers: virus removal, data backup, hardware diagnostics, ticket management via Atlassian Jira

  • Primarily repaired student and faculty Windows laptops

  • Customer service: explaining repair steps taken to customers upon them picking up their computers in an understandable way

Volunteer experience

May 2022 — present: Contributor, Nixpkgs
  • I run NixOS on all my machines and enjoy learning about weird technology like Nix.

2014 — 2017, Developer, Exherbo Linux

Language competencies

  • English (native)

  • Spanish (reading)