about me
I came to Evergreen as a psychologist in 1998 with a particular interest in learning and motivation. Areas that I am currently working to refine include: how to more effectively integrate teaching strategies that students identify as catalysts to their most powerful learning experiences; how to use seminar as a space to practice the skills involved in creating, as Terry Tempest Williams would say, “an open space for democracy;” and how to be more purposeful in integrating anti-bias teaching strategies.
I have taught in a wide range of interdisciplinary programs including Health and Human Development, a program that used biology, psychology, anthropology, and intercultural communication as tools for learning about physiological and psychological development in a cultural context; Reinhabitation, a first year program that used psychology, field natural history, and community service to investigate the question of what it means to be an inhabitant in a community; Waste and Want: The Psychology, Business and Science of Consumption, a first-year program designed to investigate the nature, influences and impacts of consumption; Climate Change: Action and Influence, a program that examined the scientific global warming data and explores the psychological factors that help to make climate change such a contested issue.