I am the director of the Writing Center and teach the tutor training class, Cultivating Voice: A Writing Tutor's Craft. Prior to joining Evergreen, I was the director of the Writing Center at South Puget Sound Community College. I also worked as an adjunct instructor in creative writing, composition, and rhetoric at the University of Colorado Boulder, Arapahoe Community College, and Community College of Denver for seven years.
In addition to my work at Evergreen, I teach poetry workshops and mixed-media workshops on inheritance and resisting white supremacy culture at Hugo House in Seattle and other community arts organizations. I am the author of the full-length poetry collection Bloodline (MoonPath Press 2024) and the chapbook Geography (dancing girl press 2015), and my work has appeared in Poetry Northwest, Colorado Review, Black Warrior Review, and elsewhere.
Education
M.F.A., Creative Writing, University of Colorado-Boulder, 2016; B.A., English, Linfield College, 2010
Teaching Style
My teaching centers around linguistic justice, critical language awareness, rhetorical grammar, community writing practices, and other antiracism-focused frameworks. I integrate critical and creative practices to support students in learning foundational college reading and writing skills in ways that honor and channel their unique linguistic and cultural backgrounds and story-telling identities.