Teaching Philosophy and service

As an educator, I bring my research into the classroom, with the primary goals of developing students’ critical thinking skills and fostering students’ active engagement in addressing social inequities. To advance equity and inclusion, I create a welcoming environment through “calling in” (rather than “calling out”), which is to say that I encourage mutually respectful dialogue about social inequalities, discrimination, and community activism.

For the past four years, I have mentor undergraduates who are students of color and first-generation students that are part of the UCLA Sociology Honors Undergraduate Mentor. I encourage students to incorporate community-based exploratory research methods as a core part of their project in order to examine how issues in their communities can be addressed from multiple fronts.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE 

2020 Fall                      Sociology 156: Race and Ethnicity in American Life (Teaching Fellow)

2020 Summer              Sociology 128: Sociology of Emotions (Instructor of Record)

2020 Spring                 Sociology 156: Race and Ethnicity in American Life (Teaching Fellow)

2019 Winter                 Sociology 1: Introductory Sociology (Teaching Fellow)

2019 Spring                 Sociology 156: Race and Ethnicity in Latin America (Teaching Fellow)

2019 Fall                      African American M5 & Sociology M5: Social Organization of Black Communities (Teaching Fellow)

2018 Winter                 African American M5 & Sociology M5: Social Organization of Black Communities (Teaching Fellow)

2018 Spring                 Sociology M162: Sociology of Gender (Teaching Fellow)

2018 Fall                      Sociology 1: Introductory Sociology (Teaching Fellow)

2017 Fall                      Sociology 128: Sociology of Emotions, (Teaching Assistant).

2016 Spring                 Sociology 1: Introductory Sociology, (Teaching Assistant).