What is your hometown?
Portland, Oregon
What hobbies, sports, or interests light you up?
I’m particularly fond of listening to anthology horror podcasts! It’s a combination of medium and genre that has produced a lot of cool stories that really only started to materialize in the last few years or so. I’m always so inspired by what people have created within that niche!
What is your specialty as a tutor? What topic, problem, subject, or process do you most enjoy helping students to learn?
My specialty as a tutor is in creative writing, particularly poetry and fiction. I find helping others refine their voice to better reach the intent within their work to be a really fulfilling process, and part of the mutual joy of working together with someone as artists.
Which of the CLASS 5 Keys – Respect, Inclusion, Growth, Support, and Pizzazz - resonates with you the most and how do you put it into practice in your work as a tutor?
I find I resonate most with the CLASS key of growth as identifying places in which writing has flourished and still has room to is something I have nurtured a particular eye for. As a tutor I put this into practice by working with students to identify those ebbs and flows within their work as it matches their intent, and where the words are still yet to be fully developed around the ideas beneath them.
What is your best advice for students on how to get the most out of their academic experience in college?
My best advice for students on how to get the most out of their academic experience in college is to make connections wherever you can. The initial hurdle of putting yourself out there gives way to so many rewarding relationships and colleagues who will support your learning and wellbeing more than you could imagine.
Give us a movie quotation, song lyric, or line from a book that will motivate us in our learning.
My motivating quote is from the book House of Leaves: “Rely instead on the abilities of your mind. Yours is especially powerful and will free you from virtually any hell. I promise”