Profile

I joined UCF as a Lecturer in the Interdisciplinary Program in Jan. 2022. I have been in the education field for over 30 years. I have experience teaching a variety of courses in educational, cultural, and linguistic anthropology at the University of Iowa, as well as a couple of classes at the University of Houston-Clear Lake. In addition, I worked 13+ years as a special education teacher at a high school in Iowa City, Iowa, following a year of working at an elementary school in Houston.

• 2011 - M.A. in Special Education, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
• 2001 - Ph.D. in Anthropology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
• 1995 - M.A. in Anthropology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
• 1993 - B.A. in Geography & Spanish (minors: Anthropology & Latin American Studies), Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois

• Leadership
• Research methods
• Educational/linguistic anthropology

• Student success
• AI & education
• Educational/linguistic anthropology
• Career preparation
• Executive-functioning skill-building

Co-faculty advisor of UCF's Alpha Iota Sigma (AIS) Honor Society

• LDR3115: Contemporary Issues in Leadership
• IDS4939: Senior Seminar in Integrative General Studies