UW-Parkside
Assistant Professor
Communication
I am an Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. I earned my Ph.D. in Communication at the University of Washington. My scholarship focuses on the potential and politics of listening and interweaves research from a number of traditions including rhetorical studies, cultural studies, and sound studies. My research and teaching explore the power and limitations of sharing personal narratives, both online and offline, to facilitate listening across difference. I proposed and led an oral history and digital storytelling project to record and share stories of racial discrimination and resistance from the larger Seattle area. I have published multiple works on podcasting, radical listening and race. I am the Director of the Digital Media and Production program at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside.
Teaching and Learning Philosophy
My teaching philosophy is grounded in a commitment to working with students to gain knowledge and skills by centering collaborative, experiential learning over passive lecture. Rooted in radical listening, my pedagogy invites students to interrogate how race, culture, power, and audience shape storytelling, so listening becomes an ethical, relational praxis rather than a passive skill. My approach resonates with Freire’s (1970) belief that “knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other” (p. 72).
