Being the change we wish to see...

In my first year of teaching, I was feeling inadequate for the immense responsibilities of a public school teacher. For inspiration, I taped the Tale of a Starfish to the door of my classroom.

As a young teacher, I was thrust into creating a program from a class that barely existed. I was hired three days before school started to teach an Animal Science course in the career and tech-ed department of a local high school.

I believe in the power of love. I believe it can change the world. I believe it can heal hearts, birth art, build communities, transform lives.

The tea towel hanging in my kitchen (gifted to me by my mother) reads "Everyone was thinking it, I just said it." My mother really knows...

I am a proud misfit. I am a vegetarian born in Philadelphia who orders cheesesteaks without the steak. I am a serious pacifist who...

I am not suggesting it is easy to use your voice on behalf of the vision you have, the reality you wish to build. Not by a long shot. But you CAN do it.

In my heart and my soul, I see who my country can be, how it can live up to its promise of “sweet land of liberty.”

I believe in using my voice to make space for others to do the same. I am a stand for amplifying the voices that white christian nationalist patriarchy seeks to silence.

I voted for Kamala Harris. I really wanted her to be the next president because of who she is as a human being. I've been drawn to her...

As we rounded the corner from 2020 to 2021 and started to venture out after COVID had come to stay, I had a realization, two actually....

Your life belongs to you. You. Independent of what anyone else thinks or believes or wants, your life is yours. You decide what passions...

I had lived most of my life before I understood the reality of white privilege. I had seen the reality of racism from a very early age as...