I teach photography at Portland Community College and have had the distinct pleasure of helping build the photography program since 2005. Before PCC I worked as an adjunct Professor at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and earned awards for excellence as a Teaching Assistant throughout my MFA program. After earning a BFA from Mills College in Oakland I worked in programs and preparations at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco where I assisted in coordinating film festivals, artist talks and lectures, musical performances, as well as in designing exhibition resource rooms and educational programs. Much of my own approach to teaching, to learning and to my ideas about community and social activism through educating others has been informed by my previous professions and early years growing up at and then working as a camp counselor at a wilderness / survival camp where most of my own role models were PhD students in Education. I approach my teaching pedagogy with a sense of adventure and playfulness that encourages experimentation and rewards curiosity and persistence.