My teaching and research are informed by the conversations I am having with people I care about. My teaching and community work is oriented around the kindness and dignity that I learned from Melvin Parson, with whom I created a community-engaged writing course; I've unlearned what expertise looks like from the conversations my students have with We The People Opportunity Farm interns and from the interns themselves; I practice "good noticing" alongside students in the Arb and the children in my life, including my own; I am an apprentice to the way that plants & landscapes tell stories thanks to Eva Roos and fellow faculty at the University of Michigan Biological Station; I am learning Eastern Ojibwe and local Anishinaabe history from Alphonse Pitawanakwat and Kayla Gonyon; and I am always unlearning grind culture by practicing slow scholarship. Building from the conversations I'm having with students in my courses, I am currently working on an environmental, cultural, and personal history of swamplands in Michigan's Thumb, where my ancestors settled nearly 175 years ago.

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