student publications, radio appearances and conferences
I served as faculty editor of Immigrant Voices, the publication of the DREAM Team supporting undocumented students, Bard High School Early College, Queens (2018-2022)
My Bard students and I appeared on NPR’s show “On the Media" talking about racial equity in Dewey Decimal system
Nava, one of the students in my Disabilities Studies tutorial ,co-authored a scholarly article with me called, “Neurodiverse Navigation and Disability Equity in an NYC DoE Early College Library” in the Urban Library Journal, published by City University of New York.
3 of my high school library interns and I presented our research at the “Libraries in Direction Action” conference with the Association of College and Research Librarians at Baruch College!
My student, Stephen, got published in a national magazine! A Student Takes Pride in a Name that Everyone Mispronounces, School Library Journal!
My student, Shanet, and I both wrote and published 6-word memoirs and essays in the book, The Terrible, Horrible, Very Bad Year: Six Word Memoirs from the Pandemic. Then we performed the essays on stage in downtown Manhattan!
Teaching multicultural food writing to students at CUNY-Lehman College. Lessons and Published Article
A List of Courses Taught:
(Syllabi Available by Request):
Contemporary Literature with Guest Writer Visits
Digital Storytelling (new course)
Disability Studies
College Application Essays
Creative Writing
Creative Nonfiction
Advisory
Children’s Literature & Multimedia
YA Literature & Multimedia
Composition I and II
Introduction to Literature
teaching portfolio
My students and I were featured in New York Teacher Magazine for our collaborative design work renovating our school library for disability and neurodiversity accessibility!
My students and I build social-emotional and research skills through caring for aquariums with lobsters, swimming albino frogs!
Students volunteers at Bard HS Early College Queens helped me build a library of 20,000 volumes from scratch!
Growing Readers: Literacy & Gardening in Harlem, published in Sharing Times, a newsletter of the NYC DoE Library Services
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