Next to my own research, I am very interested in making others' research available to a wider audience, specifically by translating work written by authors in non-English speaking contexts. I can translate from Dutch, Spanish, and French to English - please feel free to contact me if you are interested in collaborating on the translation of your work!

The following translation of an article by Hannes Kalisch, who wrote from the Paraguayan Chaco, was published in 2023:

“Learning from within: A proposal for a new approach to education in native society”. Translation of Kalisch, Hannes (2010), “Escritura y oralidad Enlhet-Enenlhet: Sentido y significado de las publicaciones monolingües en la lengua autóctona”. Forum for International Research in Education 7.3:68-86. Originally published in J. M. Rodrigues (Ed.): Educación, lenguas, y culturas en el Mercosur: Pluralidad cultural e inclusión social en Brasil y en Paraguay. Proceedings of the II Seminario Internacional de Educación Intercultural Bilingüe y Educación Indígena, Asunción, 22-23 July 2010, 235-60. Asunción: CEADUC.

Between Fall 2021 and Fall 2023, I was a linguistic consultant/content creator for Faena, a language-learning video game under development. Faena attempts to teach Spanish to speakers of English through a communicative, task-based methodology. It leads the player through a quest-based story progression where learning Spanish is necessary to talk to characters and progress in the game - in other words, it situates language learning in the sociocultural communicative context in which the learner would actually be using the language in real life. As such, the goals and methodologies of Faena align well with my own teaching philosophy.

From Spring 2020 to Summer 2023, I organized for the United Graduate Workers of UNM. In Winter of 2020, we reached a majority card check to win the first union of graduate workers in the state of New Mexico, and after a year of legal proceedings, UGW was legally recognized by the New Mexico Public Employees Labor Relations Board. In Fall 2022, we won our first collective bargaining agreement. Throughout this period, I was active as a union steward, bargaining committee member, and chair of the membership committee.