Teaching

My extensive and wide-ranging experience as an educator includes work in diverse settings and with students of all ages and backgrounds.

During my three years as executive director of a literary arts nonprofit, from 2021-2024, I worked with writers to develop and implement a range of K-12 public schools programming, including a poetry program for elementary school students and a program that brought a diverse set of writers into high school classrooms. With a local high schooler, I also started and co-facilitated an after-school youth writing club that met each week at the public library. In 2018-2019, I worked as a museum educator at the Museum of the City of New York, leading New York City students K-12 through museum exhibitions that explored New York City history from the seventeenth century to the present.

I have also taught at the university level, where I have fostered a supportive and rigorous classroom environment. In spring 2021, I taught a course called “The History of Inequality” in the Department of History at Southern Methodist University. The course examined the history of race, gender, and the welfare state in the twentieth-century U.S. Between 2011 and 2018, I was a teaching assistant at Barnard College, Rutgers University, and the University of Maryland Baltimore County. Classes included “Poverty, Race, and Gender in the U.S;” a history workshop for history majors; surveys in African American history and U.S. history; and more.