Students should grow their critical thinking skills in rich intellectual soil. One of my favorite assignments is the Unessay: a long term, structured group assignment, in which students create a project of their own design to explore a topic related to our course content. Students in my courses have created museum exhibits for the year 2323 on topics such as Black maternal health, substance use disorder, genetic engineering, and health insurance; imagining the future pushes them to think past their assumptions about what is “natural” or inevitable when it comes to health inequity. They have created 'zines and graphic novels about long acting reversible contraception (LARC), queer/trans breast & chestfeeding, and trans-masculine pregnancy experiences. I believe that project-based learning and scaffolded assignments, with clear expectations and benchmarks along the way, provide a solid framework around which students can build their own knowledge.
| 2023-2024 | Adjunct Assistant Professor of Health Sciences, Hampshire College |
| NS224: Sexual/Reproductive Health and Technology* (Spring 2024) *Listed as a Foundational Course for the Five College Reproductive Health, Rights, & Justice Certificate Program | |
| NS214: Health/Care and Society: Living and Dying in Systems of Power (Fall 2023) | |
| 2022-2023 | Instructor of Record, Elaine Marieb College of Nursing, UMass Amherst |
| N212: Cultural Diversity in Health and Illness (Spring 2023) | |
| N325: Maternal/Newborn Nursing (Fall 2022) | |
| N398i: Clinical Coordinator – Maternal/Newborn Nursing Practicum (Fall 2022) | |
| N398i: Clinical Instructor – Maternal/Newborn Nursing Practicum (Summer 2022 & 2023) | |
| 2020-2022 | Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| N325: Maternal/Newborn Nursing (Summer 2021 and 2022) | |
| N438: Professional Role (Spring and Fall 2021) | |
| N420: Introduction to Nursing Research (Fall 2020) |