My teaching philosophy

My teaching philosophy guides students into making the classroom a shared place of critical thinking and social action. I aim to foster a learning space which values and builds on students’ understandings of how the world came to be to imagine a better world in the present and future. 

"We come together to be unlovely and take ourselves apart, in order to mutually construct even more difficult ideas. It’s not supposed to be easy. The labor is what makes it beautiful."

- KYLA WAZANA THOMPKINS, "WE AREN'T HERE TO LEARN WHAT WE ALREADY KNOW"

Courses

At Cal Poly Humboldt, I teach in the Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Analysis. 
I'm currently teaching teaching Intro to Human Geography (GEOG 105) and California Geography (Spring 2025).
In Fall 2025, I will be teaching Intro to Human Geography and Migrations and Mosaics (GEOG 304). 
​I'll also be joining the Environment and Community MA program as a core faculty. Interested students should apply! Graduate applications are due April 8. 

Previous courses taught
Cal Poly Humboldt: Geographic Skills Lab (GEOG); Senior Field Research (GEOG); Political Ecology (GEOG/Politics); Introduction to Human Geography (GEOG); and Making of the Modern Middle East (GEOG/History) 
WMS 102 "Gender and (Post)Colonialism," Gender Sexuality and Women's Studies Dept., UC Davis
Lead Teaching Assistant, GSW 50 "Introduction to Gender Sexuality and Women's Studies,"  Gender Sexuality and Women's Studies Dept., University of California Davis