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Teaching


I have spent nearly all of my adult life teaching. I have facilitated learning in a variety of settings, including traditional university classrooms, online courses, public middle and high schools, social service agencies catering to homeless youth, outdoor education programs, and community-based settings that bring people with a wide variety of educational backgrounds together.

In all of these venues, I draw on Paolo Freire’s popular education learning model to cultivate a student-centered, experiential learning environment. In Freire’s framework, learners first reflect on and activate the knowledge they already possess, which has been acquired through a lifetime of formal and informal experiences. They build on this prior knowledge to ask questions about a given topic, pursuing additional learning in real-world context to deepen understanding. This refined understanding, in turn, contributes to a course of carefully facilitated action, often in support of grassroots organizations, and to new cycles of learning. 


UNIVERSITY-LEVEL TEACHING
UNST 200: Understanding Communities
(Spring 2016, online, course designer and instructor)

USP 399: Justice, Environment & the City (Spring 2015, course designer and instructor)
USP 430: Participatory Research Methods for Community Development (Winter 2014, teaching assistant, w/ Dr. Nathan McClintock)
UNST 421: Action Research with Youth (Spring 2013, teaching assistant, w/ Dr. Lisa Bates)
USP 311: Introduction to Urban Planning (Fall 2011, teaching assistant, w/ Dr. Ethan Seltzer)

COMMUNITY-BASED POPULAR EDUCATION FACILITATION, COLLABORATION   (selected - past and present)
Anti-Displacement Pdx Coalition
Community Alliance of Tenants
​East European Coalition
Gitga'at Nation - Groundwork Portland Annual Youth Exchange

Groundwork Portland
Larkin Street Youth Services

Líderes Verdes
Living Cully Coalition
​Multnomah Youth Commission
Outside In
Parkrose Community United Church of Christ
PLACE
Portland Harbor Community Coalition

Right 2 Survive
​Right 2 Dream Too
Sisters of the Road
​Stop the Sweeps PDX
Street Roots
Western Regional Advocacy Project
World Savvy


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