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 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 benefit from many conversations and years of feminist learning alongside Professor Peggy McCracken; I relearn the importance of cycles, failure, and communication by observing bees alongside my beekeeping mentor Eileen Dickinson; and I am always unlearning grind culture by practicing slow scholarship. Building from the conversations I'm having with students in my courses, I'm working on a series of essays about the idea of nature. 

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