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
Winter 2026: TBD based on student/instructor need. Please email instructor to make an appointment.
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
"Friece Vulnerability," Training and Lunch with Kazu Haga, Center for Non-Violence Santa Cruz Scholarship $295
"Difficult Conversations" in the Classroom, Teaching and Learning Center, UCSC, 2025, $700
Puente Annual Conference, 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 Faculty Profession Development Grant to Present "International Virtual 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 Training, 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 Global Engagement, 2022-2025, $4,000
Online Course Development Grant for Writing 2, UCSC Online Education $4,000
Full-Tuition Scholarship, Stanford University developed Cultivating Compassion Teacher Training, 2020-2021, $6,800
Hemera Contemplative Fellow, 2019-2023, $800
Springboard Grant Recipient, 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 Recipient, Faculty Professional Development Award, 2018-2019, $2,800
The OP-ED Project: Public Voices Fellow, 2017