Genres and Arguments

I tutored for over 5 years and have been an instructor at several colleges for over 5 years. I've volunteered for over a year with a non-profit organization that promotes civil conversations on controversial conversations in an methodical, informed, and casual way.

I try to make my classroom as engaging as I can. I gamify as much as possible and I try to have as open a conversation as I can with my students while still meeting educational standards.

I won a poetry contest one time, 2nd place.

I barely graduated high school in 2007. I received my Bachelor's in English in 2014 (minor in sociology). I received my Master's in Rhetoric in 2017.

Growing up, I had a fundamental distrust of science and academia. Some time while attending college, I started to understand why many of the knowledge building processes in academia and science were actually quite rigorous, even if still flawed. Still, I've come to understand that it's the best we have, and I want to have conversations with others not in the academic community--and maybe even some in the academic community--about why we generally trust experts and why many of them don't.