An environmental educator, literary scholar, and poet, I teach at Choate Rosemary Hall in Wallingford, CT and have a PhD in English from the University of Oregon. My research focuses on environmental education, climate change culture, and contemporary environmental justice literature. I co-lead the Environmental Literature Institute, a summer program for educators to develop skills and curricula for teaching in the environmental humanities, and I am co-editor of Teaching Climate Change in the Humanities (Routledge, 2016), with Shane Hall and Stephanie LeMenager. My poetry has appeared most recently in Spiral Orb, The Hopper, and saltfront, among other publications. A central goal in my writing, teaching, and advocacy work is to bring attention to the personal and emotional dimensions of climate change and to empower people to participate in wider public conversations about social and environmental justice issues, in the process expanding who counts as a “climate change expert.” I am likewise committed to the Environmental Humanities broadly, exploring the ways in which humanistic inquiry and education can help us better understand what it means to be human/humane in the Anthropocene. As an alumnus of the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) and a former outdoor educator, I believe that in this time of interlocking social and environmental crises, all learning must be grounded in place, whether that place is an alpine meadow, a barrier island, a city neighborhood, or perhaps even an online classroom. In all these places, are beauty, wildness, and community.
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