My teaching is guided by social responsibility, compassion, real-world experiences, and love for the subject matter. Students engage in inquiry-based learning with interdisciplinary content to recognize the critical importance of gender and culture, diversity, and contemporary and global perspectives. At all times, my teaching is guided by empathy, an equity lens, my lived experience as a member of the LGBTQ community, and my abiding love of the study of human development and early learning. I am interested in progressive, anti-bias, play-based early childhood education settings, in addition to examining 'play' from a global perspective.