“Coaching through Literature”

During the first semester of my MA in English graduate program I wrote a research proposal exploring how higher education professionals can coach college students to success using literature. Read my award winning research proposal here. As a higher education professional myself, I relished in the opportunity to bring two of my passions together–academic advising and my love of writing, reading, and all things literature. I’ve presented this research as a training module to advisors on the college campus I currently work at.

The Anti-Racist Workshop: How to Decolonize the Creative Classroom

In my Methods and Issues of Teaching Composition course I learned the importance of embracing change, fostering engagement, mindfulness, and generosity, and promoting camaraderie and collective power in creative writing workshopping courses. Click here to see the infographic I created based on a book I highly recommended book, The Anti-Racist Workshop: How to Decolonize the Creative Classroom, by author Felicia Rose Chavez.

OLLI at ASU Intergenerational Project

Whilst in my graduate program, I had the AMAZING pleasure of coordinating and engaging in an intergenerational project that brought ASU students and OLLI at ASU members together to create a cookbook based on family stories and traditions. See the fruits of our labor here…did you see what I did there. 😊

Gabriela Mistral’s “My Social Beliefs” and Albert Camus’s The Plague

If you haven’t already heard, WWII was chaotic and complicated. To explore this very thing, I am writing a novel based on the effects it had even years after it ended (read about that here). I had the opportunity to explore more of this in World War II in Literature; truly an amazing course! Here and here I delve into the lives of folks not directly involved with the war, but nevertheless very much affected by the social, emotional, and political strife it caused.