Alisa Messer (she/her) 

• English 

• Women's and Gender Studies

Please contact me at amesser@mail.ccsf.edu. 

I want to connect with you! For students enrolled in my classes, I hold regular drop-in Get Stuff Done sessions (which can be used as visiting and office hours to meet one-on-one or in a group with me). 

We can also schedule one-on-one meetings at other times to ensure you can make it. If you'd like to set up a phone appointment, a video conference, a chat, or other communication, send me three times that work for you, and I'll let you know which one of them works for me. 

• Students in my classes can always text me or leave a message. I love communicating with you! I'll respond to your messages as quickly as I can, generally within 24 hours; on weekends and holidays, it may take a bit longer.  (If you don't hear back from me in 48 hours, assume I did not receive your message and please resend it.)

Hello there! Thanks for being curious about courses I'm teaching. 

If you are a current or could-be CCSF student, or a former CCSF student looking to catch up and reconnect, reach out! I want to hear from you. I'm happy to answer questions about my courses: please start with the "courses" menu at the top of this page for an overview. 

I usually try to warn new students that I am something of a weird teacher. I make you do things like draw in class, for instance—not for "art," but for thinking and remembering and communicating. (So no, you don't need to be an artist: stick figures count!) I ask you to reflect on a lot of things (how did that go? what do you think that means about next time?) because I believe that's where a lot of the long-term learning happens. And I think we learn a lot from the mistakes and missteps we make and take, so I don't use a traditional grading system and I give you a lot of chances to make things work. In short, I try to teach you a lot of 'traditional' academic and communication skills in non-traditional ways. And if you join our class, I expect you and your classmates to participate together in a lot of collaborative work and community-tending: I want you to learn at least as much from each other as you do from me and the rest of our class team (our tutor and librarian).