I am an Associate Professor in the Sociology and Anthropology Department and the director of Sustainability Studies at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. I am guided in my teaching and research by a transdisciplinary, critical, and innovative agenda to forward community-driven social change work at the local, regional, and global level. My teaching centers on humanizing the classroom with a focus on – getting to know students their passions / challenges / concerns / dreams; honest conversations and vulnerability; anti-racism; sociological imagination; participatory strategies; and embodied / hands on learning. Participatory action research / engaged scholarship is at the heart of my research focusing on community based models of social change and justice in response to climate change, food insecurity, and other environmental and cultural injustices. In past work, I examined the prefigurative/proactive role of independent media and youth media groups in the larger social movement for media change. My research appears in journals including Social Movement Studies, Interface: A Journal For and About Social Movements, and Sociological Studies of Children and Youth. I earned my PhD in Sociology from Brandeis University and my MEd in Arts in Education from Harvard Graduate School of Education.
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