Short Personal Description: 

I grew up in Fort Collins and graduated from Rocky Mountain High School in 1996.  I play the cello, and love to hike and hang out with my family.  

Educational and Professional Background: 

I was awarded my B.A from CU in Rhetoric and Communication, and my M.A. in Rhetoric from CSU.  Go Rams!  

Courses currently teaching at Rocky and previous courses taught at Rocky: 

World Literature and Composition

Media Analysis and Composition

AP Language and Composition

US Literature and Composition

What does the Lobo Way mean to me?: 

The Lobo Way means caring about each other.  My student’s background, context and life experience informs my instruction, and I work to create a space where students feel comfortable to be who they are.  

Interest & Hobbies: 

I love sci fi, philosophy, hiking and music.  

Honors & Awards: 

Graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Colorado. 

Favorite Quote: 

Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning god, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem. -Walt Whitman