I'm a PhD candidate in English and the Center for Writing Studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where I study literate activity in citizen/community science, examining how norms around expertise and citizenship shape public involvement in science.

I teach first-year and advanced writing courses, taking a collaborative, community-based approach to writing pedagogy. When teaching disciplinary communication, I help students find ways to center their own identities and discuss issues they care about in ways that eschew supposed divides between politics and research. I carry this philosophy to my Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) work as a researcher on the transdisciplinary team Writing Across Engineering and Science. 

In my administrative work, I mentor other teachers, archive pedagogical resources, and organize professional development events on topics such as multimodal pedagogy and alternative assessment.