she/her/hers
Humanities Division
Writing Program Continuing Lecturer
Faculty
Cantu GLBTI Resource Center
Crown College
Digital Arts and New Media
Porter College
Rachel Carson College
Kresge College Academic Building
Office 2401
& via Zoom
Fall 2024: MWF 11am-12pm via Zoom
Kresge College
M.F.A., Digital Arts and New Media, University of Califorina Santa Cruz
B.A., Writing and Visual Arts, Sarah Lawerence Collge
Cert., TESOL/TESL/TEFL
Cert., Stanford Univerity Cultivatving Compassion Training (CCT) Teacher
Cert., Writing Program Teaching Circles, UCSC
Cert., Central California Writing Project Institute: Writing for Today and Tomorrow, Social Justice and Identities
Poetry, Non-Fiction Humor, Avant-garde Feminist Literature in the Post-Colonial Context, Ethical Issues in Emerging Technologies, Theories of the Creative Experience, Contemporary Writers & Artists of the Asian Diaspora
Mindfulness-Based Education & Training, Compassion Curriculum for Secular Learning Environments, Digital Arts & New Media as a Platform for Discussion of the Body Politic
Visual Literacies
"Difficult Conversations" in the Classroom, Teaching and Learching Center, UCSC, 2025, $700
Puente Annual Conferece, Presenter Grant Award for "Contemplative Practice and Pedagogy for Writing in HIgher Education," $1,500
Central California Writing Project Institute: Writing for Today and Tomorrow, Social Justice and Identities, Scholarship, 2024, $200
Large Non-Senate Factuly Profession Development Grant to Present "International Virual Exchange: Equity and Inclusion for Educators and Students" at NASFA: International Educations Association Conference, 2024, $2,102
Conferences on College Composition and Communication (CCCCs), Grant for Contingent Faculty, 2024, $750
Cultivating Compassion Traning, Compassion Corps Grant, 2023-2024, $1000
Faculty Fellow, Teacher and Learning Center: Evidence for Equity, UCSC, 2023-2024, $2,000
Global Classrooms Travel Grant, Virtual Exchange/Collaborative Online Learning, UCSC Gloabal Engagement, 2022-2025, $4,000
Online Course Development Grant for Writing 2, UCSC Online Education $4,000
Full-Tutition Scholarship, Standford University developed Cultivating Compassion Teacher Training, 2020-2021, $6,800
Hemera Contemplative Fellow, 2019-2023, $800
Springboard Grant Recipiant, UCSC Office of Research, Industry Alliances & Technology Commercialization (IATC), 2019-2021, $5,000
Online Course Development Grant for Writing 1, UCSC Online Education, 2020, $4,000
Unit-18 Grant Recipiant, Faculty Professional Development Award, 2018-2019, $2,800
The OP-ED Project: Public Voices Fellow, 2017