Explore My Work
I’m interested in the ideas, systems, and relationships that shape how we understand ourselves, each other, and what’s possible.
My work moves across research, writing, conversation, and public thinking, but the questions underneath it are often the same: What have we accepted as normal? How did it come to be that way? What might we be missing? And what could become possible if we saw it differently?
Explore what I’m thinking, researching, and creating below.
What I’m Researching
My current research explores love as praxis in education, specifically how preservice teachers understand, experience, and enact love as they learn to teach.
Drawing from bell hooks, I understand love as more than a feeling or sentiment. Love is something we practice. I’m interested in what changes when love and presence are understood as ways of being in relationship, not extras we add to education, but part of how education happens.
This leads me to bigger questions. What if schools could be places where we experience and practice love? What becomes possible when teachers see their own humanity, and the humanity of their students, as central to the work? Could education itself become a site of connection, belonging, and healing?
These are questions I’m exploring through my doctoral research and carrying into the rest of my work.
Related to this Work
Speaking of Love
On love as more than sentiment, and what it might offer us as a way of being in relationship with one another.
On Crying in Graduate School
On research, objectivity, and what can get lost when the human beings behind the data disappear.
Loveless Schooling and the Way Back
A conversation about love, schooling, and the questions shaping my doctoral research.
Feel Into It
A podcast for thinking, questioning, and noticing what’s happening beneath the surface.
Feel Into It is where I think out loud. Sometimes that means sitting down with someone for a conversation. Other times, it’s just me following an idea, pattern, or question that I can’t stop thinking about.
I talk about education, relationships, spirituality, culture, creativity, current events, and the systems underneath all of it. The subjects change, but I’m usually interested in the same thing: What’s really happening here, and what might we notice if we looked a little deeper?
Writing
Essays, reflections, and ideas I’m still thinking through.
Writing is one of the ways I make sense of what I’m noticing. I write about education, relationships, culture, systems, critical consciousness, imagination, and the questions that emerge when we start looking at familiar things differently.
Some pieces begin with research. Others begin with something I’ve experienced, noticed, or can’t stop thinking about. Blooming Curriculum, my Substack, is where those threads come together.
Ideas In Motion
Some ideas are meant to be talked through.
This is where I teach, explain, question, and follow ideas in real time. Through videos and other short-form work, I explore everything from curriculum and critical consciousness to culture, relationships, imagination, and the systems shaping how we understand the world.
Sometimes I’m breaking down a theory. Sometimes I’m responding to something I’ve noticed. Sometimes I’m working through a question that doesn’t have a clean answer yet. The point isn’t always to arrive somewhere. Sometimes it’s to see what becomes visible when we look a little closer.
Conversations + Talks
Ideas change when we bring them into conversation.
I love the places where my thinking gets to meet someone else’s. Through interviews, talks, guest conversations, and collaborative spaces, I share my research and ideas while leaving room for them to be questioned, expanded, and changed through dialogue.
These conversations often move through education, love, curriculum, humanizing practice, and the possibilities that emerge when we begin questioning what we’ve accepted as normal.
Learning Transforms
A conversation about [we can write the exact one-line description based on what you discussed there].
Loveless Schooling and the Way Back
A conversation about love, schooling, and the questions shaping my doctoral research.
