Biography

I care deeply about creating spaces where students feel encouraged to cultivate authentic written and expressive voice, to learn about themselves through reflective inquiry, and to connect with each other through sincere dialogue.  Wherever possible, I incorporate relational and ecological learning, as well as arts-based and place-based practices into my teaching.  

Research Interests

My research explores how arts, aesthetic, and contemplative practices engender personally meaningful connections with self, others, place and with our ecological relations.  Included is a deep interest in ethical modes of perceiving and being.

My visual art and poetic practices explore human-nature relationships, and the commonalities – both physical and metaphoric – we share with our more-than-human relations.    

Currently, I am exploring the vital role of the arts in ecological learning, what it means to be an educated person from the perspective of an ecological community, and how place-based, contemplative and decolonial learning might be authenticated in contexts of online education.