“I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.”
-Maxine Hong Kingston
I’m probably…
READING, WRITING, THINKING, TEACHING, AND/OR RUNNING
Work
- Sequoia High School, Health Careers Academy Coordinator, IB English Language and Literature teacher, Theory of Knowledge teacher, and many other roles (2013-present)
- The Bay Area Writing Project @ UC Berkeley, Teacher Consultant (2022-), Returning Summer Institute Fellow (2025), Summer Institute Coach (2023, 2024), Summer Institute Fellow (2022),
- Yoga Flow, Vinyasa Yoga Teacher (2020-present)
Beliefs and Values
- Curiosity (“How do I/we/you know that?” + “Why?”)
- Process>Product (although products are lovely indicators of work!)
- Intuition built from experience (this process is inherently messy and that’s okay!)
- Evidence is strategically gathered, not just quantified (data comes in many forms and more is not always better)
- Revision is necessary is every context of our lives (“the rugged work of revision”–Kiese Laymon)
