I identify as a wandering bard. By the time I was twelve years old, I had lived in five different states across the United States. Now, I am on state number eight. My frequent relocation has inspired a love of language and a fascination with its fluidity, as well as a focussed interest in relationships between people and the roles people can play in our lives. I believe that cultivating healthy connections can be life-changing. Additionally, I believe that every student has the power to change a person’s world for the better. To cultivate connection, I focus on growing both students’ communities within education spaces as well as their relationship with local communities beyond education spaces. I believe that student voice and stories can change the world and that strong storytelling is the skill that will help students do it. 

I identify as a queer femme.  I believe magic is created in classrooms through all of the ingredients that I have mentioned thus far---art-making, questioning, imagining radical possibilities for the world, cultivating healthy connection---alongside consistent offerings of compassion, affirmation, playfulness, and love.

I identify as a cisgender white woman. My privilege as a white person allows me to move unencumbered through most, if not all, spaces in the United States, and my privilege as a cisgender white woman, while complicated, offers me more security than most.  I believe it is necessary for our students to practice critical thinking skills in order to understand, analyze, and reflect on the state of the world and our role in it, particularly in relation to power. Strong critical thinking skills are what will enable our students to take steps towards imagining radical possibilities for the future yet to come.