“As a classroom community, our capacity to generate excitement is deeply affected by our interest in one another, in hearing one another’s voices, in recognizing one another’s presence.”
― bell hooks, Teaching To Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom (1994)
Teaching
My teaching philosophy is deeply informed by my positionality as a daughter of public school teachers as well as by women of color feminist pedagogies. I advocate the core belief that lived experience is a critical site of knowledge production. My approach to teaching strives to provide students with the resources, theories, and methodologies necessary to think critically about U.S. history, media, and society from Latinx, queer, and feminist perspectives, while equally affirming that my students are producers of knowledge in their own right. I quote the late scholar and Black feminist bell hooks to emphasize my strong belief in the reciprocal and transformative nature of collective knowledge production when the classroom becomes a site for mutual recognition. Empowering students to communicate authentically and thoughtfully with those around them, who each have their own unique insights, structurally transforms the classroom from a site of anxiety, to one that can honor lived experience(s) across sites of difference.
University of Texas at Austin, Assistant Professor of Instruction, Undergraduate Course
2023 - MAS 301: Introduction to Mexican American and Latina/o Studies
University of Texas at Austin, Teaching Assistant
Fall 2021 - MAS 315 AND WGS 301: Latina Performance in Popular Culture
Spring 2022 - Fall 2022 - MAS 301: Introduction to Mexican American and Latina/o Studies
University of Texas at El Paso, Peer Leader
2019-2020 - College Assistant Migrant Program (CAMP)
Courses Taught
