My teaching philosophy is rooted in a student-centered, critical race, and critical disability sensibility that centers students' whole person development. This philosophy foregrounds building confidence in students’ experiential knowledge, and gaining the capacity to engage in complexity with curiosity, sensitivity, and dignity. I believe that whole person development and sensitivity to complexity are critical to transformative education. Through this approach, I attempt to encourage students to approach complexity with lines of inquiry and to be unafraid to question standardization with criticality and curiosity. This philosophy is enacted through a (1) read, (2) translate, and (3) make conceptual framework and delivered through (1) exposure to multiple worldviews; (2) active learning and assessment; and (3) contemplative, reflective, and analytical thinking.

My teaching experience includes six years as the primary instructor or advisor to graduate and undergraduate level students across six US-based universities.

My teaching appointments include:

• NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service

• NYU Tandon School of Engineering and Integrated Design and Media

• Carnegie Mellon University

• Pratt Institute

• School of Visual Art

• Maryland Institute College of Art

• Art Center College of Design

I was the primary thesis advisor to seven MFA candidates at the School of Visual Arts.

Currently, I am a Teaching Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering and Integrated Design and Media.