Pronounsshe/they

Department/College/UnitHumanities Division

TitleWriting Program Continuing Lecturer

AffiliationFaculty

Other UCSC Campus AffiliationCantu GLBTI Resource Center
Crown College
Digital Arts and New Media
Porter College
Rachel Carson College

Primary Office LocationKresge College Academic Building
Office 2401

Additional Location(s)& via Zoom

Office HoursSpring 2023: MWF 11am-12pm by appointment

Mail StopKresge College

Biography, Education and Training

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

Summary of Expertise

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

Research Interests

Mindfulness-Based Education & Training, Compassion Curriculum for Secular Learning Environments, Digital Arts & New Media as a Platform for Discussion of the Body Politic

Teaching Interests

Antiracist Writing Assessment Ecologies

Awards, Honors and Grants

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