As an award-winning educator, I teach primarily in interdisciplinary, honors spaces. Outside of those courses, much of my experience has been in the form of professional development and train-the-trainer workshops for faculty and staff, some of which are recorded and listed on the Academic Events page. I enjoy scores of guest lecture and facilitation opportunities per year. If those happen in virtual spaces or if I’m preparing at home, I have enjoyed the help of some great TAs – Theobald (Tibby), Dobby, and Katze (2005-2019).

Credit Courses

Fall Honors Forum, Material Cultures
Annually since 2020

Jointly developed new, team-taught course focused on understanding campus material culture. Students learn to interrogate the materials comprising and meanings of the items they interact with every day – from water to plastic to the neighborhoods where they live. The project-based course generates research-informed and student-evaluated recommendations for campus policies influencing purchasing, materials management, recruitment, and other areas.

Spring Honors Forum, The ‘Next Flint’ is Here – Water, Equity, and US Policy
Annually since 2023

Jointly developed new, team-taught, interdisciplinary course focused on expanding students’ understanding of basic water chemistry, science communication, and equity in urban development across the US. This project-based lecture+lab hybrid course is a Course-based Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE) designed to support students as they develop a research question around local water chemistry, test, and teach others about water chemistry specifically and science communication generally.

Spring/Summer Honors Forum, Breaking Cultural Concepts to Find Yourself in the World: France
2023

Co-developed new, team-taught, interdisciplinary course based in City-as-Text pedagogical tools and focused on the exploration and understanding of stereotypes, both in the US and in France. Following an 8-week introduction, we traveled and taught for two weeks with a dozen US undergraduates in Strasbourg and Paris.

Selected Workshops and Presentations

These workshops and presentations are more closely aligned with supporting faculty, staff, or participant teaching and learning.

Institute for Community & Economic Engagement – University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Ripple Effects Mapping
2023-Present

In this regular professional development offering, a team of trained facilitators from our office work with campus and community units to coordinate a ripple effects mapping assessment for them and the community partners with whom they work.

International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement, Describing Our Why: Public Narrative as Professional Development for Community Boards
2023

Lightning Talk presentation with Dr. Erica Wrencher at IARSLCE annual meeting, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA.

Be The Change, Arts Education & Sustainability, virtual
2020-2022
From 2020-2022, I presented to over 1400 students a co-developed a new, team-facilitated, interdisciplinary hour-long workshop for 5th-8th graders with performer and science educator Joey Feinstein. With Feinstein, presented information on climate change, ecological health, and reduction, reuse, and recycling of single-use plastics. Answered students’ questions concerning Kansac City area-specific recycling practices, jobs that best serve the community and environment, environmental anxiety and grief, and other topics.

Epicenter Conferences, Varied Topics, face-to-face and virtual
2014-2021
From 2014-2021, I managed all aspects of coordination – topic selection, talent recruitment, planning, promotion, menu development, local and campus farm connections and harvest, and day-of setup, support, and other needs for an annual, one-day conference for high school juniors and seniors, college students of all levels, faculty, and community members. Selected guests included:

Andrew Revkin, National Geographic Society strategic advisor for environmental and science journalism 
Dr. Skylar Bayer, Professor, Marine Biology and Producer of Fishwrap Podcast
James Rea, Alan Alda Center for Science Communication
Dr. Sarah Myhre, Senior Fellow, Project Drawdown & Rowan Institute
Dr. Doug Kluck, Director, NOAA Kansas City Regional Office
Dr. Michelle Wyman, Executive Director, Global Council on Science and the Environment

Sustainability Across the Curriculum Workshops, Varied Topics, face-to-face and virtual
2018-2020
In cooperation with the University of Kansas as a Center for Sustainability Across the Curriculum, for three years, I coordinated and led multi-day workshops supporting higher education faculty from across the Midwest in developing sustainability-related content for a range of curricula. Topics included:

Developing student interest and agency in food and energy policy
Fostering connections with elected leaders and agriculture policymakers
Using City-as-Text and your campus’ built environment as pedagogical tools in interdisciplinary, sustainability-focused teaching