Teaching

I challenge students to conceptualize complex notions of how humans interact with the environment, and to envision a better tomorrow. As a teacher and researcher, I think a lot about human-environment relationships, social justice, legacies of colonialism, globalization, science and technology, and natural resource extraction. My teaching philosophy seeks to find new and effective ways students can explore and connect these topics. I work to foster learning environments where students confront and explore new topics in the context of multiple and contested histories, present day relationships, and various social theories. I see myself as a facilitator who can spark discussion and introspection, and moderate with scholarly background and empirical context.

I regularly teach university courses, as well as guest lecture at colleges, conferences and civil society meetings. Some of the courses I’ve taught include:   

Colorado State University

Greenhouse Gas Policy (graduate)

Northeastern University, D’amore-McKim School of Business

Impact Investing and Social Finance

Global Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation (MBA)

University of Arizona

Climate and Society

Metropolitan State University of Denver

Global Climate Change

University of Colorado, Boulder

Environment and Society

World Regional Geography

Natural Hazards

Geographies of Global Change

Human Geography

Invited lectures at CU Boulder

Climate Justice (Graduate)

Climate Change Politics & Policy

Environment & Development in Latin America

Creative Climate Communications

Inside the Greenhouse

Mountain Geography

Environmental Justice (Honors)

International Development

Other (Selected) Invited lectures

Environment & Development, University College London

Climate Change Law & Policy, University of Denver Law School

Ecological Agriculture, Dartmouth College