“William was amazing! I know the entire class thought so, because outside of class everyone talked about this. William was patient, and answered questions not just in a way that met the minimum, but by providing resources and challenging us even further than any professor typically does!”
In a society that attempts to exponentially grow our apathy and dull our motivation for radical action and care, my teaching pedagogy seeks to cultivate curiosity and movement—moving and being moved. Movement in this context has many meanings: intellectual, affectual, psychological, practical, social, and other experiences of shifting and changing. Through the co-creation of inclusive learning environments, I guide students through experiences of learning how to think critically, holistically, and compassionately through iterative self-reflection, healthy conflict, community building, and the development of analytical tools, with careful attention to both course content and collective process. Perhaps most importantly, my teaching practices and values require a foundation in love. I deeply care about being in study with other people and that we collectively cultivate spaces to study with others without fear. On their pathways to becoming people of consequence out in the world, I challenge students to—as James Baldwin calls it—be and act otherwise.