Teaching Experience

An educator since 2012, my research is rooted in my experience as a classroom educator, school administrator,  community educator, volunteer coordinator, and curriculum developer. My research draws from eco-justice studies, ecofeminist pedagogies, peace studies, postcolonial studies, critical museum studies, and collective memory studies within an interdisciplinary foundations of education inquiry approach. My publications and presentations include work on memorials and museums as sites of peace education, ecofeminist walking inquiries, environmental in/justice and environmental racism addressed in pre-service teacher education, and settler colonial memory making as a pedagogical project. 

At Syracuse University, I have served as a teaching assistant and/or instructor of record for 3 years, including two years as a teaching assistant for EDU 310: The American School and one year as a co-facilitator and instructor of record with Intergroup Dialogue.

Before attending Syracuse, I worked in classrooms and schools in Louisiana and Oklahoma for 8 years as a 6-12th grade humanities teacher and academic administrator. I have also worked as a community educator with an Oklahoma City-based nonprofit that welcomes and partners with the resettled refugee community in Oklahoma. I hold a Master’s of Arts degree in Social Foundations of Education from Oklahoma State University and Bachelor of Arts degree in English with an emphasis in Creative Writing and a minor in Art History from the University of Missouri. In my Master's program, I served as an instructor of record for The Role of the American Teacher (a pre-service teacher education course) and a teaching assistant for Introduction to Women and Gender Studies. 

In the menu above, I have included course materials from my teaching roles at Syracuse University and additional details from my K-12 professional experience as well.