“Make no mistake—writing is power. What this fact should prompt us to ask is: What kind of power is it, where does it come from, and what does it mean?”
— Matthew Salesses, Craft in the Real World
As a teacher of First Year Composition with a background in early childhood education, I am interested in reframing writing and rhetoric for college students in a way that makes writing feel fun, accessible, and applicable to their continuing academic careers and beyond. Through interactive group lessons, reading, and discussing a variety of texts/media representing non-canonical voices, I aim to empower students to write using a voice that feels more authentic to themselves in hopes to reshape the landscape of academic writing for the future.
Me playing banjo for my preschool class at their graduation in 2018.