I aim to create an inclusive space where all students feel welcome, heard, supported, and safe. I will treat each student as an individual and each day as a new day. I vow to support and advocate for students who have been historically underserved in mathematics, including women, students of color, LGBTQ+ students, and students with disabilities. I will do so at all levels of teaching and mentoring: in my office, classroom, department, division, institution, and national and international professional networks.

My teaching is strongly influenced by collaboration and conversation with my colleagues and my Project NExT Red '15 cohort. I value groupwork, projects, quality mastery-based grading schemes, mathematical writing, pre-readings, discussions that create community, and anything I can do to build students' communication skills.

I've grown a lot through book-centered discussions with colleagues and family. Here are some that I have read recently that have impacted the way I think about teaching:

• Asked and Answered: Dialogues On Advocating for Students of Color in Mathematics by Pamela Harris and Aris Winger

• The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students by Anthony Abraham Jack

• How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

• Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi

• Heavy by Kiese Laymon

• Black, Brown, Bruised: How Racialized STEM Education Stifles Innovation by Ebony Omotola McGee

• Interrogating Whiteness and Relinquishing Power: White Faculty's Commitment to Racial Consciousness in STEM Classrooms edited by Nicole M. Joseph, Chayla Haynes, and Floyd Cobb

• White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo 

• Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning edited by Susan D. Blum
  
  

Courses taught

At Lawrence University:

Fall 2023:

• Calculus 1

Spring 2023:

• Modern Mathematicians

Winter 2023:

• Complex Sequences & Series

• Linear Algebra

Fall 2022:

• Precalculus

• Calculus 1

Spring 2022:

• Calculus 1

• Number Theory

Winter 2022:

• Discrete Mathematics

• Linear Algebra

Fall 2021:

• Calculus 1

• Discrete Mathematics

On sabbatical Spring 2021

Winter 2021:

• Linear Algebra

• Calculus 1

Fall 2020:

• Topics in Geometry

• Calculus 1

Spring 2020:

• Number Theory

• Calculus 1

Winter 2020:

• Rings and Fields

• Foundations of Algebra

Spring 2020:

• Number Theory

• Calculus 1  

Past courses:

• Foundations of Algebra

• Applied Combinatorics

• Calculus 1, 2, 3

• Linear Algebra

• Rings and Fields

• Freshman Studies 2

Past Courses at the University of Minnesota:

For UMTYMP: 

• Linear Algebra

• Linear-Algebra-Based Multivariable Calculus (workshop leader)

• Differential and Integral Calculus

• Linear-Algebra-Based Multivariable Calculus

• Differential Equations, Logic, and Set Theory (workshop leader) 

For the Math Department: 

• Computational Algebraic Geometry: an upper-division undergraduate course (Spring 2017)

• Coding Theory : an upper division, proofs-based course (Fall 2015)

From 2013-2015, I taught a variety of courses as the Math Fellow at Marlboro College, a small school in the hills of Vermont which also happens to be my alma mater. The course most representative of my current teaching style: Introduction to Logic.