About Me.

bell hooks writes that education is an act of “self-recovery” and that “liberatory education is a way for folks to return to themselves.” Inspired by hooks, I believe that the classroom is a place where students can both find and return to themselves through an atmosphere of curiosity and discovery.

 

​It is my goal to build a liberatory classroom where students can engage with course content as a process of self-discovery, community healing, and collective action. As students strive to find themselves, personal experiences and beliefs will hopefully rise to the surface. In this way, an important aspect of learning becomes an effort to move from the personal to a larger arena of cultural significance. It is this very process of moving from the individual story to the collective that becomes the hallmark for successful learning.