Teaching

As a community-based educator, I prioritize learning through collaboration, agency, and critical engagement with placed-based histories. My teaching includes being the instructor of record and teaching assistant for courses at York University, giving invited lectures to academic audiences, and hosting workshops for non-academic community groups. I enhance experiential learning through art-based digital methods such as photo diaries and soundscapes, engagement with public art through fieldtrips, mental mapping, walking tours, and on-location discussions with grassroots community leaders and organizations such as the Toronto Public Library and Parkdale Neighborhood Land Trust. My artistic and pedagogical work intersects with my research in feminist human and cultural geography. I have taught a wide range of ages and backgrounds, focusing on young adults, as well as younger and older generations in the context of community engagement and grassroots projects.

Workshops

Knowledge Dissemination through podcasts-A conceptual and practical guide, through the work of GenUrb, delivered in CAG 2024 Conference and Annual General Meeting, August 14th-18th, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Mixed media for qualitative research in feminist urban geography: methods, tools and possibilities, delivered at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers in 2023, focusing on participatory arts-based methods and geohumanities tools/methods including GIS mapping, GPS-tracked photo voice, mental mapping, photography and field recordings/soundscapes.

Lived Sound: An introduction to field recordings and spatializing listening practices, delivered for the Creative School of Toronto Metropolitan University in 2022, focusing on decolonial methods for the recording of soundscapes, as well as for the development of critical listening practices through spatialized knowledges.

Course directorships

June 2023. EUC/GEOG 3280 3.0 I2 On Location: Urban Placemaking and Spatial Politics Difference, Course Director (Unit 1), 15 students