I value community, and enjoy working and collaborating with my students. It is a gift to be able to co-create classroom spaces that center trust, curiosity, and student agency. In our writing classroom, we create shared agreements for our writing, our work, and our interactions. We are able to learn from and with each other, reflecting critically on materials, and creating powerful, original, compositions.
Education
- Greensboro College: BA, English and Political Science
- Appalachian State University: MA, English, concentration in Education
Awards
- 2022 Excellence in Teaching, Learning and Service Award, Cascadia College
Community & Professional Engagement
- 2022: Antiracist Curriculum Initiative (ACI), through the SBCTC, and the University of Arizona, for CROW (Corpus Repository of Writing); 2019, Dartmouth Summer Seminar for Composition Research.
Publications
Personal essays and creative non-fiction have been published in:
- The New York Times
- The Huffington Post
- Insider
- Seattle's ParentMap
- MSN/SheKnows
- Motherwell
- The Manifest-Station
- Mutha Magazine
- The Keepthings
- "Subtle Shifts," was included in the 2021 Anthology: "The Pandemic Mid-Life Crisis: GenX Women on the Brink."
Presentations
- 2020, MLA, paper titled "Crossroads of Support: Helping Human Students Connect College and life, given on the panel, "Human or Student: Faculty Respond to the Real Co-Curriculum."
Associations
- Member, AWP and NCTE
Hobbies
Outside of Cascadia, I'm an avid hiker, biker, soccer player, backpacker, and yoga enthusiast. I enjoy spending time with my two young daughters, traveling, and enjoying the Pacific NW. I love to read, write, and bake. I'm also a volunteer with Seattle Public Schools and Program for Early Parent Support.