Mount Holyoke College

For the 2024-2025 academic year I am a Visiting Assistant Professor at Mount Holyoke College in the Department of Geology and Geography. I am teaching Atmosphere and Weather (both semesters), Sea Level Science (fall), and Geographies of Climate Justice (spring). Five College students are welcome to register for these courses.
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Diversity Inclusion Pedagogy Resources

For several years I co-instructed the graduate Diversity Inclusion Pedagogy seminar at UMass Amherst with Forrest Bowlick, Elsa Cousins, Nigel Golden, Cam Anderson. Syllabi were co-created by the students and instructors. All of our syllabi and various other course resources are available here.
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Pedagogical Development

From 2018-2020 I was trained through the Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning at UMass Amherst under the guidance of Dr. Beth Jakob and Dr. Denise Pope. Through this I achieved Scholar, Practitioner, and  Associate Certifications. I did a year long training through UMass Amherst called "Teaching on a Precipice: Empowering Student-Teacher Partnerships for Climate Justice" and continue to take workshops and attend conferences on inclusive science communication and instructional pedagogy.
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Distinguished Teaching Award

In 2021 I was awarded the student-nominated, campus-wide Distinguished Teaching Award at UMass Amherst. This award was given based on my work developing and teaching a course for freshman about the climate crisis, as well as co-facilitating a graduate seminar on DEI work in geoscience, geography, and environmental science. See the press release here.
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Teaching as Research

I am conducting a study of learning outcomes in my First Year Seminar course, Climate Change: It's a Hot Mess. This work is approved by the UMass Institutional Review Board and advised by Denise Pope, coordinator for the Center for the Integration of Research Teaching and Learning at UMass. Preliminary results can be found in this poster from the American Geophysical Union conference and can be cited with this DOI.

Education outreach for youth and students of all ages

My career began at a community college. In the Time Scavengers collaborative post The benefits of community college, personal stories and examples my colleagues and I discuss the importance of community colleges and the role they played in our career paths. For several years I led workshops at the Western Mass Youth Climate Summit sponsored by Mass Audubon. Learn more by clicking the image below. 
A selection of pre-2020 photos from workshops I facilitated at the Western MA Youth Climate Summit and Eureka Girls Inc. summer camp.