i love bicycling, cooking vegetarian food, teaching, organizing, practicing yoga, reading groups, knitting, writing, & planning. i also really like large windows, wine, farmer’s markets, tea, bamboo floors, berries, trees, and water.
my research interests include feminist theories and pedagogies, media literacy & media activism, social literacies, community spaces, activist art, social thought, visual rhetoric, performance theories and pedagogies, humane education, & environmental movements.
my husband, andy, is an experimental physicist with an eye on the futures of alternative energy.
the top thirteen things on five year to-do list are (in no particular order):
1. get yoga teaching certification
2. write a children’s book
3. finish my phd
4. write a vegetarian cookbook
5. do a sprint triathlon
6. bike tuscany
7. become a mother
8. have a successful vegetable garden
9. be fluent in french & spanish
10. design a poster series
11. write a memoir on sisters and loss
12. knit more than a simple scarf
13. run a half marathon
