Educator | Speaker | Consultant
I work with educators, institutions, and communities to reimagine teaching and learning as a catalyst for personal insight and collective change. Rooted in the principles of Contemplative Pedagogy, my approach supports students and educators in exploring how identity, power, and lived experience shape our understanding of the world—and of ourselves. This work deepens our capacity to engage across difference, fostering more inclusive, reflective, and liberatory educational spaces.
I’m available for keynote talks, workshops, collaborative projects, and consultations that center contemplative approaches to education, particularly in relation to race, class, gender, sexuality, and other aspects of human difference. Whether you're designing a course, leading a department, or rethinking institutional culture, I offer frameworks and practices that support transformation from the inside out.
As a seasoned scholar-practitioner with a deep commitment to excellence in teaching, I currently serve as Professor of Education and Chair of Secondary and Higher Education at Salem State University. This site offers a window into my work—writing, talks, research, podcasts, and photography—all grounded in a contemplative lens. I look forward to connecting with fellow educators, scholars, and practitioners who are committed to meaningful change.
Over the past several years I’ve had the opportunity to engage virtually providing several workshops, webinars, short talks, etc. on a variety of topics. The common thread that ties all the work together is reflecting on how we can be more present and alive in the work that we do as educators. Whether we are grappling with issues of race, class, or aspects of sexual identity, we must bring our whole selves (histories, hopes, and fears) to these conversations if they are to have meaning and possibilities for transformation. Here are a few examples of what I’ve been up to and I will share more in this space over time.
Contemplative practice nurtures and supports a way of being in and with the natural world and the built environment. Photography has become one way that I document and remain in conversation with the world as I encounter and make sense of it.
