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Hi everyone, I am happy to rejoin this SIG after a hiatus. My professional role is Director of the Washington Center for Improving Undergraduate Education at The Evergreen State College - this is the third and most unique center I've directed in my career. We are a public service center. What that means is that in addition to supporting faculty on our campus, we also provide affordable consulting services and professional development for higher education professionals. If you'd like to learn more, sign up for our newsletter.

I've been a member of POD since 2016ish. Most of that time I've been a member of the PDC, which has afforded me some of the best professional relationships and mentoring of my career. Recently, I wrapped up my time co-leading the development of the Educational Developer Competency Toolkit.

I am also co-author of Learning That Matters: A Field Guide to Course Design for Transformative Education.

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Hello! I'm the Director of Teaching Development and Initiatives at Yale's Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning. Our team works with grad students, postdocs, and faculty on their teaching. My background is in neuroscience, but I've been working in educational development for 15 years. I frequently present with Jamiella Brooks on rigor, equity, and deficit thinking.

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As a member-focused Special Interest Group (SIG), distinct from a POD Governance Committee, we engage and support educational developers as they work to live up to their equity goals at their institutions as well as their own professional development.

The Equity & Education SIG critiques and addresses legacies of racism, colonization, oppression, privilege and power, and systemic inequity that negatively impact the experiences of students, instructors, and educational developers in higher education with the goal of changing individual and institutional practices and policies as they pertain to teaching and learning.

The SIG promotes equity-mindedness as a critical, ongoing, reflective and action-oriented process of learning and practices. We ask, “how can we do better?” to inform a process toward equity work by facilitating peer mentoring, a learning community, and collaborative project work.

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Educational Developer, Teaching, Learning and Technology, Centre for Teaching Support & Innovation, University of Toronto

Priorities: Equity, Diversity, Inclusion & Accessibility (EDIA) + Universal Design for Learning (UDL)

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Hi all! I'm a Learning Experience Designer at Ivey Business School at Western University. I have a PhD in Classical Studies.

At Ivey, I'm part of a team that aims to build inclusive and meaningful learning experiences. I often collaborate with Ivey faculty to discuss challenges and opportunities around this aim, including how GenAI fits into the picture.

I'm looking forward to connecting with members of this group.

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I am an Instructional Designer at Oregon State University. I co-facilitate the Inclusive Teaching Online workshop for instructors who want to explore strategies and tools for making their online classes more inclusive. I am very interested in learning more about this topic and what others are doing about it.

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University of Missouri Teaching for Learning Center (Associate Director)

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Looking forward to developing and sustaining meaningful, uplifting relationships with like-minded colleagues here ❤️

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Hi! My name is Shed (like the thing in your backyard) and I'm a Teaching and Learning Specialist at the Center for Teaching, Research, and Learning (CTRL) at American University in Washington, D.C. My colleague Mary Catherine, also from AU, is a co-chair of this SIG! My pedagogical support, research, and activism all center on Women of Color feminisms and intersectionality. My PhD is in Gender Studies and I've been a part of POD since grad school.

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Kristin English, Ph.D. (she/her), West Chester University

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Hello! My name is Kristin English and I am the Director for the Center for Trans and Queer Advocacy at West Chester University. I've been at WCU since 2021 in various roles including educational development, technology, and DEI. Before WCU, I spent almost 10 years at Georgia College & State University as a tenure track faculty in the Communication Dept. While there, I also served in various leadership roles including CTL director, director for a regional accreditation initiative, department chair, and program coordinator. In POD, I previously served on the Conference Team as online program chair (2022) and conference chair (2023).

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Joshua Caulkins, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott, AZ

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Hi All! My name is Josh Caulkins and I am the Director of the Center for Teaching & Learning Excellence at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University based in Prescott, Arizona. We have a small CTLE office, just two full-time people, serving 3,000+ students and 200+ faculty. My background is in the geosciences and geoscience education but I've been working in the field of Educational Development since 2009.

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Matthew Garrett (he/him)  |  Case Western Reserve University  |  Cleveland, OH (USA)

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Matthew Garrett (he/him)  |  Case Western Reserve University  |  Cleveland, OH (USA)

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Hi! I am a professor of music education and the director of UCITE (University Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education), CWRU's Center for Teaching and Learning.

I work with great team members to provide programming, services, and grant funding to the CWRU teaching community in an effort to empower people to learn.

Specific to this SIG, our center supports inclusive engagement through a 14-week educational development collaborative each spring. We also provide grant funding for faculty projects that support inclusive excellence to improve student learning.

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Hi! I am a professor of biology and currently a pedagogy fellow for our CTL at Raritan Valley Community College in NJ. My interests include Open Pedagogy, Alternative Grading, and Inclusive Teaching.

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I serve as Associate Director and Associate Research Professor at the Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence. I serve on POD's DEI committee as an assessment co-coordinator

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Hello! Ching-Yu here. I am at the CTL of University of Georgia. I am joining today's meeting as the representative of POD DEI committee and to see if we can collaborate with Equity in Education SIG group to support POD members during the anti-DEI political climate.

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Hi everyone! My name is Mel Katz (she/her), and I work in the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at The College of New Jersey. I'm the Accommodations Support Specialist for Curriculum and Assessment. I work with faculty on designing and implementing accessible course design, with a specific focus on students affiliated with our Accessibility Resource Center (ARC). I am also an adjunct in the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) Department. Before joining TCNJ, I taught middle school English as a Second Language in a central New Jersey public school.

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Hi all! I came to the University of Central Oklahoma (UCO) in January 2022. My teaching, scholarship and service are primarily focused at the intersection of the following areas: 1) Faculty development; 2) Education for Peace; and, 3) Teaching Religion. Having served as a professional educator since 2001, my passions continue to focus on educational theories and practices that transform students and their communities to be more peaceful, just, and inclusive.

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I am the CTL director and a Biology professor at Davidson College, a small but mighty liberal arts undergraduate college in North Carolina. I teach introductory biology, upper division Human Physiology, and a seminar called Antiracist Physiology and Medicine. My administrative work focuses on faculty development and student academic support, promoting justice and equity through education and mentoring, and de-centering whiteness on campus and in teaching & learning in particular.

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Columbia University School of Social Work (CSSW) 

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I’m ABD at Columbia University, with my academic discipline in Graeco-Roman archaeology (humanities/social sciences). For the past 3 years, I’ve been working for the Columbia School of Social Work’s (CSSW) Writing Center with MSW and PhD students. I also have 3 years of experience working for Columbia’s Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL), further experience working for 2 other writing centers on Columbia's campus, and experience teaching as an instructor of record in the department of Art History and Archaeology.

In 2024, I attended the Institute for New Educational Developers (INED) since I’m currently applying for new, full-time roles in educational development, and looking forward to growing in an academic support career. As a GPPD grant recipient, I'll be attending the POD Network Conference this November in Chicago, where I’m excited to make further connections in the field. (I attended POD also in 2019 in Pittsburgh and in 2021, when it was held remotely.)

In terms of equity in education, I'm eager to join this SIG and learn/share with other educational developers. At CSSW, discussions around power, race, oppression, and privilege (PROP) are built into the curriculum. However, in my current student-facing role, I often encounter conflict between what the school explicitly promotes (a PROP "lens") and what it practices (white supremacy culture in academic expectations, especially around writing practices). Looking forward to a full-time career in educational development, I'm also interested in engaging with broader discussions around equity.

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Divya Bheda, PhD, She/Her(s) | Santa Clara, Bay Area, CA

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Divya Bheda, PhD, She/Her(s) | Santa Clara, Bay Area, CA

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Hello! I am Divya Bheda, Director of Educational Assessment at Santa Clara University. I have been engaging in equity-oriented educational development work with higher education for over 15 years and I am committed to fostering student success in all its varied definitions.

Topics I'd like to explore: The issues at the intersection of AI and Equity.

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Hello! I am the Director of the Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning at Indiana University Bloomington. Our center supports various DEIJ initiatives on the campus, especially the belonging initiatives related to IU's strategic plan and integrating belonging into our course redesign initiative for large-enrollment, high-DFW classes, where we focus on systemic biases impacting student success.

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I am Dr. Ali Söken, and I earned my PhD this summer from the Teacher Education and Curriculum Studies department at UMass Amherst. I have a background in instructional design and educational technology, and I recently started working as a Faculty Consultant at the University of Oregon in the Teaching Engagement Program.

I’m originally from Turkey, and I come from a low-income, single-parent household. I’m passionate about education because I understand its transformative power, especially for people like me. In my new role, I hope to support international students and contribute to improving SoTL efforts at UO.

Inclusive teaching is central to my practice and I am excited to be part of this amazing group to improve my skills around equity and justice work.

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Program Director for Technology Integrated Learning at Minnesota State Colleges & Universities Systems

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I live and work in the lands of the Dakota people as Program Director of Technology Integrated Learning at Minnesota State. I am an emerging leader in technology integrated learning. As a white, settler descendent, I am dedicated to ongoing equity work in personal and professional spaces. I have a growing practice in Universal Design for Learning and disability justice as an intersectional anti-oppressive approach to education.

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I am an instructional designer at Century College in MN. I am interested in employee development, artificial intelligence strategies, and equity. I had some experience in conflict sensitivity with the UN. I facilitate reflective conversations on Seeking Educational Equity & Diversity (SEED). I participate in the AI Ethics study group with the Total Learning Architecture. I seek greater engagement and learning in the areas of institutional culture and climate.

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I'm the Director of the Center for Teaching & Learning Innovation at Vermont State University, a newly formed regional public institution (as of July 1, 2023), merging 3 of our existing institutions. My background is in student affairs and higher ed administration. Early in my career, I worked in Academic Support & Disability Services, and moved into educational development about 15 years ago. A current project is supporting faculty to embed DEI and social justice outcomes in gen ed courses.

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I direct our Faculty Center for Innovation, Collaboration and Support and run workshops, mostly on equity and inclusion, bias awareness, and, these days, difficult dialogue. I'm at The New School in NYC, which includes the New School for Social Research, Parsons School of Design, Mannes College of Music and Eugene Lang College, among others....

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hi! i'm currently working as a faculty development specialist in inclusive pedagogies at New York Institute of Technology.

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I am the director of faculty development at Texas State University in San Marcos, TX (just south of Austin). I also teach graduate courses in research design at TXST. I am an adopted person and Citizen Potawatomi Nation. Side hustle is songwriter/singer. Grateful for this group.

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Director for the Washington Center for Improving Undergraduate Education

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Hi there,

I am currently serving as the director for the Washington Center for Improving Undergraduate Education - a public service center at the Evergreen State College. We have a broad portfolio that includes working with campuses of all types in all geographies to engage in action planning around equity projects. We are also home to Evergreen's Learning and Teaching Commons. I have been lurking with the E&E since before becoming a SIG. I'm hopeful to be able to engage more.

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Director of Center for Teaching & Learning at Pennsylvania College of Art & Design. Ph.D. in Fine Arts (I'm a pianist).

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Program Director for Graduate and Postdoctoral Pedagogical Development at the University of Notre Dame

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Hello everyone! I'm Ashley and I'm eager to unlearn racial biases and structures I've grown up with. I hope this group will expand my boundaries and help me create ~truly~ more inclusive classrooms.

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Associate Director of Faculty Development, Innovation in Learning Center, University of South Alabama.

In POD, I co-coordinate the DEI Liaisons group and am looking forward to learning from this group.

Our faculty and graduate student development initiatives weave equitable instructional strategies throughout our mini-courses and workshops. I'm always looking for new ways to help faculty thinking inclusively.

When I'm not on campus, I'm hiking, kayaking, running, camping, hanging out with my sons, loving on my cats.

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Associate Director of Faculty Development, University of Connecticut CETL

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Hello! I focus on creating and working with others to create programming to support instructors, especially in the areas of metacognition, facilitation of class discussions, course design, authentic assignments, and AI. I am also an adjunct faculty member in the English department, where I teach writing and multimodal composition.

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Visiting Lecturer (Knight Writing Institute), Philosophy, Cornell University

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Hi Everyone, I'm Brianna Zgurich. I served a fellow at the Center for Teaching Innovation at Cornell for four years working specifically on our Graduate Student Programming. Currently, I am a visiting lecturer and teach ancient philosophy from across the world (Buddhist, classical Chinese and ancient Greek philosophies). I am seeking work in educational development and also very excited to get to know everyone and read Bell Hook's text. It's just as necessary and relevant today as when it was published 30 years ago!

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Associate Director, Center for Teaching Innovation, Cornell University

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Hi! I focus on inclusive pedagogies and for the past couple of years have been exploring digital storytelling. I'm taking a class just for fun this semester to keep learning, practice humility, and to get refreshed! (Indigenous Poetry of Resistance, woooooooo). I am a poet.

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I am Simone Sorteberg (she/her) and am Director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at Grand View University (Des Moines, IA). Grand View was founded as a Danish and Lutheran university in 1896. Today, we are the most diverse private university in Iowa. Much of my work is focused on making GV a more equitable and inclusive space for all stakeholders.

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Assessment Specialist, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

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Hi everyone! I'm Waleed (he/him) and I am an Assessment Specialist at the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor. I recently entered the educational development space and am excited to meet so many wonderful people and learn from everyone! My interests are in building equitable spaces for teaching and learning and finding ways to perform equitable assessment, particularly in the STEM fields.

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I am an Instructional Designer specializing in Inclusive Pedagogies at Concordia University in Montreal. My strong suit is navigating challenging moments in the classroom and anti-racist pedagogy

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Hi all! I'm the TA Development Program Manager at the Office of Teaching and Learning, UC Santa Barbara. I'm passionate about supporting graduate students in their teaching journeys, and about creating inclusive and equitable spaces inside and outside of the classroom.

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I serve as Associate Director of the Teaching, Learning, and Professional Development Center and Director of the Ethics in Teaching & Learning program at Texas Tech University. I develop programming related to academic integrity, research integrity, and common ethical dilemmas, offer opportunities to explore emerging issues in teaching and higher education, and partner with faculty to support initiatives and development opportunities around campus.

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Director of the Jane B. Nord Center for Teaching and Learning. I'll add more soon!

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I'm a Ph.D. student in Teacher Education and Curriculum Studies at UMass Amherst, with a passion for teaching and education research. My research focuses on critical media literacy and teacher education, and in my dissertation, I am examining how future teachers learn critical media literacy and how to teach it effectively. I am also an instructor teaching a course on Education and Film that explores issues of race, gender, and social class.

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I'm the Director of Professional Development and Instructional Design at Manor College in Jenkintown, PA, in the suburbs of Philadelphia. I'm looking forward to these monthly discussions!

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Associate Director for Educational Development working closely with and leading GSPD Teaching Programs at Washington University in St. Louis. Administrative co-Leader for the CIRTL @WUSTL

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Assistant Director, Faculty Programs, Center for Teaching Excellence at Boston College

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I'm Director of Teaching, Learning, and Assessment in the Rutgers–New Brunswick School of Arts and Sciences, part of the teaching & learning team. I'm also a philosopher by training, and this year I'm privileged to be coordinating the POD DEI Committee's Wulff Diversity Fellows program.

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he/him - Portland State University - Office of Academic Innovation

I'm excited to participate in the bell hooks book group + to engage with y'all around one of my favorite books, teaching to transgress!

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Martina Rosenberg, Ph.D. Director of Teaching and Learning Assessment, Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning University of Connecticut

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Lead on HHMI Inclusive Excellence grant and other equity-centric activities at our teaching center. Pondering how to pull more people into the tent and what roll assessment habits might play. Ungrading?yes , plz!

Coffee and Kayaking lover. I plant seeds in my garden and in life.

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Hi all! My name is Marisella Rodriguez (she/her) and I'm the Inclusive Teaching Manager in the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) at the University of California, Berkeley. My role is designed to help the CTL leverage new and existing campus initiatives related to diversity, equity, and inclusion to help advance inclusive and equitable teaching practices. I work with a team of equity-minded folks to offer consultations, programs, and resources to educators looking to make equity-focused instructional changes.

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Hello! I'm the associate director of the digital learning environment at Wenthworth Institute of Technology. I'm interested in creating equitable & inclusive learning experiences especially in digital spaces and am researching digital equity.

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I lead the Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence, Penn State's university wide (24 campuses) CTL. We have a strategic goal focused on equity and inclusion. It has been an interesting process to examine our own practices, as well as hosting conversations with our clientele, and ramping up E&I

programming.

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Hello everyone, I am Maimuna (pronounced moymoona), a 5th-year phd candidate at Florida International University, majoring in Engineering and Computing Education. In my research I employ qualitative methods to understand student experience, especially focusing on their mental health and wellbeing. Post-Phd, I would like to explore positions that are kinda "part researcher, part Practitioner." Would like to know how to break into these roles.

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Instructor of Japanese Language and Linguistics at Earlham College. I enjoy teaching and I'm interested in educational equity in my classroom and in my institution.

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Salem State University, School of Education, Faculty Fellow for Center for Teaching Innovation.

Interested in trauma-informed pedagogy, healing-centered engagement, bringing more Indigenous and non-Western ways of thinking and engaging into higher ed, decolonizing curricula/courses.

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Rutgers University School of Arts & Sciences Office of Undergraduate Education, Teaching & Learning Team. https://sasoue.rutgers.edu/teaching-learning

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Hi Everyone! I am the former Director of the Faculty Center for Excellence in teaching and Learning at CSU Stanislaus and a faculty in the Masters of Social Work Program. I am currently working with two large grants on infusing inclusive and equity-minded teaching and learning in STEM.

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Associate Director, Center for Teaching Innovation, Cornell University

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Edited October 2024!

I am Sr. Project Manager-Faculty Development at City Colleges of Chicago and periodically teach sociology as an adjunct instructor. City Colleges are the community college district here. I have also worked on the Inclusive STEM Teaching Project and on LGBTQ+ in higher ed topics. Always happy to connect with Chicagoans and like this group for connecting with folks dedicated to equity in education.

I live in Chicago with my partner and our cat, Caps Lock, and enjoy video games and tabletop games.

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Assistant Director, Purdue University Northwest. 

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I work with the Director of our Center to support the development of courses and implementation of instructional practices that promote inclusive excellence in teaching and learning. Oh and I have three kids with my partner and we are so tired. All. The. Time.

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Teaching & Learning Specialist / Center for Teaching, Research & Learning / American University

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Program Manager for Graduate Teaching, Center for Teaching, Learning, & Outreach, Caltech.

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Director of Programing for DEI, Center for Teaching & Learning, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Among many other things, I design and lead the year-long TIDE Ambassador faculty fellowship: https://www.umass.edu/ctl/communities/tide-ambassadors-fellowship

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Hi, everyone! I'm the Assistant Director for the Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning for the University of South Florida. I also facilitate our Inclusive and Equitable Pedagogy Program. I'm interested in learning more about how people grow/sustain their programs when burnout is so prevalent.

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Faculty Development; Instructional Core; George Washington University 

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I coordinate our center's inclusive and equity-focused programs, including general and tailored workshops, resources, etc. I'm trying to figure out how to best grow our center's reach in this area and coordinate with efforts happening across the university.

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Visiting Assistant Professor, Teaching Excellence Center, US Naval War College

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Some topics I do research on: trauma-informed pedagogy, teaching against islamophobia, and critical pedagogies.
Newly moved to Chicago; big fan of coffeeshop work days.

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University Center for Assessment, Teaching & Technology; University of Arizona
Focus: DEI-related PD

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Hello all, I'm Associate Director for the Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. I'm excited to learn from and with this group.

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