Teaching

Environmental Justice Policy Practicum (ESP 198 - Spring quarter 2020): This course, which I designed and taught, provides a survey of the dynamic environmental justice policy process in California in real-time, using proposed legislation to explore current environmental justice issues and solutions while simultaneously learning about the policy process. In doing so, the class aims to help students: 1) Deepen their understanding of environmental justice as an academic, social movement and policy topic; 2) Learn about a diverse cross-section of environmental justice issues/solutions and California environmental justice organizations; 3) Learn about the California legislative process including how bills are introduced, referred to committees, debated, amended and passed into law or fail; and 4) Explore challenges, opportunities and critiques of state and policy-oriented strategies for advancing environmental justice. You can find a copy of the course syllabus here.

Sustainability and Social Justice (ECL 290 - Fall quarter 2018): This graduate seminar, which I co-organized, brought together an interdisciplinary group of more than twenty graduate students along with chapter authors and guest experts to explore questions and themes posed in the edited volume Sustainability: Approaches to Environmental Justice and Social Power (2018, NYU press). The readings and discussion based seminar covered topics from ecological perspectives on resilience, gendered environments, urban sustainability and indigenous environmental justice among others.

A Critical Appraisal of "The Dreamt Land" by Mark Arax (ECL 290 - Winter quarter 2021): This co-organized graduate seminar brought together students across several natural and social science graduate groups for deep conversations at the intersections of water, climate change, agriculture, and justice in California using Marx Arax's acclaimed book, "The Dreamt Land", published in 2019, as a jumping off point. As we read and discuss together we are gathering supplemental materials for a reading guide with the hope of bringing our individual expertise to bear on the complexities of these topics and helping to diversifying narratives about California's Central Valley.

See my CV for information about my TA experience and guest lectures