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Education and Research

❋ Community Education, Suburbia Rising:

Community-centered education takes place in PTAs and BSUs, in library meeting rooms and church basements—anywhere we can gather and learn, come together and co-create!

The workshops, group studies, and educational activities I lead are both inviting and challenging—all are welcome, and all are expected to engage!

Let me know if I can offer an educational workshop for your group or organization. Or, sign up on my contact page to find out when I’m hosting the next public event.

My pedagogy is rooted in love. I believe in the power of education to liberate, to inspire, and to connect. 

❋ Adjunct Faculty, Prescott College

Located in the high desert in Arizona, Prescott College is my most recent alma mater and one of my beloved educational homes. I bring my background as a critical sociologist to undergraduate and graduate classes in social justice, sustainability, and research fields. 

❋ Research Interests

  • Collaboration, coalition-building and solidarity studies, particularly across generational divides, identity markers and geographic regions

  • Organizational sociology and structural adaptability, institutional and ideological changemaking

  • Culturally responsive education, radical and decolonizing pedagogy

  • Mixed methods, qualitative research, arts-based methods

Suburbia Rising:

Community Education

Founded in 2017, Suburbia Rising is an educational resource for suburban and rural changemakers. Together, we practice, organize, learn, grow, and dream of a more inclusive, collaborative and equitable future where we can all thrive and belong.

Some of my most popular workshops are below. Custom workshops are always available to address immediate needs.

Allyship 101

Stepping Into Allyship (now Allyship 101) explores the four cornerstones of becoming a competent and reliable ally by breaking down examples of effective and ineffective allyship. Participants grow on both the individual and organizational level, and should leave with an understanding of their next actionable steps. The 120-minute version of this workshop also includes an important discussion on building the stamina for ongoing work.

Everyday Upstanding

Combining Bystander Intervention training with Learning 4 Justice’s SPEAK UP against everyday bigotry, this workshop provides easy and actionable skill-building and practice for interrupting microaggressions, school/workplace and street harassment.

Narratives for Change

Designed for grassroots organizations, Narratives for Change is an interactive workshop where we practice using Courageous Conversations and traditional activist storytelling methods to develop targeted messages to change hearts, minds, and behaviors

Connecting Across Divides

This half-day workshop explores political polarization and calling folx in, rather than out, to build conversation and understanding among diverse groups. This is an advanced workshop. 

Please contact me for more options and custom workshops!

Adjunct Faculty @ Prescott College

As an alumna of the MA in Social Justice & Community Organizing program and PhD in Sustainability Education program, I love giving back to my graduate program as Adjunct Faculty.

Classes taught at Prescott below:

Leadership Development

Course description forthcoming

Theories of Change

Comparative Political and Social Theory

Radical Pedagogy as Praxis

Decolonizing and Intersectional Perspectives for Sustainability

Critical Youth Organizing

Critical Abolition Studies

Culture, Power, and Society

Research Interests & Projects

My Guiding Questions:

How do we work together to make the world a better place? How do we work well across difference to create consensus, unity, solidarity, and effective coalitions? How might we invest in collaborative, radical imagination to innovate and design a more equitable world of belonging and thriving for all?

Journal of Sustainability Ed

Appreciative Inquiry Practitioner 
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