My teaching and research are informed by the conversations I am having with people I care about: I'm learning about kindness and dignity from Melvin Parson, with whom I have created a community-engaged writing course; I've unlearned what expertise looks like from the interviews my students have done 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 learning to appreciate the way that plants & landscapes tell stories from Eva Roos and fellow faculty at the University of Michigan Biological Station; I have gained an understanding of 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 Michigan's Thumb, where my ancestors settled nearly 150 years ago.

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