who am I?
- I am a community college educator -- and a teacher at heart.
- I am a mom, wife, daughter, sister, aunt, fur mama, and friend.
- I want all the wiener dogs.
- I love pilates, long walks, chocolate, and red wine.
- I am a survivor of open heart surgery and a stroke.
- I am a first-generation equity practitioner.
- I am the daughter of two first-generation Americans, both born to White European immigrants.
- I believe online courses are key to expanding access to higher education for those who do not have the privilege to be on-campus full-time.
- I believe the way we use technology changes us and when we center relationships, we ask different questions and make different choices about technology.
- I believe AI literacy is important, but it isn't the skill that will save us.
- I believe that community colleges are vital to improving the social mobility of Americans, particularly those from minoritized populations.
- I believe teaching matters.
- I believe each student brings knowledge and experiences into a class and belonging develops through designing environments that recognize and value this diversity.
- I believe that instructor-student relationships are the connective tissue between students and academic success and establishing them in asynchronous online courses is even more important.
- I believe that college professors must be aware of and support the way all humans learn.