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Pronouns she/her/hers

Division Humanities Division

Department/College/Unit Writing Program

Title Writing Program Continuing Lecturer

Affiliation Faculty

Other UCSC Campus Affiliation Cantu GLBTI Resource Center
Crown College
Digital Arts and New Media
Porter College
Rachel Carson College

Faculty Type Lecturer

Areas of Expertise Writing
Technical Writing, Science Writing
Art
Art Criticism
Art Theory
Artificial Intelligence
Asian American Pacific Islander History
Contemplative Studies
Creativity
Science and Technology

Primary Office Location Kresge College Academic Building
Office 2401

Additional Location(s) & via Zoom

Office Hours for Students/ Office Hours Winter 2026: TBD based on student/instructor need. Please email instructor to make an appointment.

Mail Stop Kresge College

Biography, Education and Training

M.F.A., Digital Arts and New Media, University of Califorina Santa Cruz

B.A., Writing and Visual Arts, Sarah Lawerence Collge

Cert., TESOL/TESL/TEFL

Cert., Stanford Univerity Cultivatving Compassion Training (CCT) Teacher

Cert., Writing Program Teaching Circles, UCSC

Cert., Central California Writing Project Institute: Writing for Today and Tomorrow, Social Justice and Identities

Summary of Expertise

Poetry, Non-Fiction Humor, Avant-garde Feminist Literature in the Post-Colonial Context, Ethical Issues in Emerging Technologies, Theories of the Creative Experience, Contemporary Writers & Artists of the Asian Diaspora

Research Interests

Mindfulness-Based Education & Training, Compassion Curriculum for Secular Learning Environments, Digital Arts & New Media as a Platform for Discussion of the Body Politic

Teaching Interests

Visual Literacies

Awards, Honors and Grants

"Friece Vulnerability," Training and Lunch with Kazu Haga, Center for Non-Violence Santa Cruz Scholarship $295

"Difficult Conversations" in the Classroom, Teaching and Learning Center, UCSC, 2025, $700

Puente Annual Conference, Presenter Grant Award for "Contemplative Practice and Pedagogy for Writing in Higher Education," $1,500

Central California Writing Project Institute: Writing for Today and Tomorrow, Social Justice and Identities, Scholarship, 2024, $200

Large Non-Senate Faculty Profession Development Grant to Present "International Virtual Exchange: Equity and Inclusion for Educators and Students" at NASFA: International Educations Association Conference, 2024, $2,102

Conferences on College Composition and Communication (CCCCs), Grant for Contingent Faculty, 2024, $750

Cultivating Compassion Training, Compassion Corps Grant, 2023-2024, $1000

Faculty Fellow, Teacher and Learning Center: Evidence for Equity, UCSC, 2023-2024, $2,000

Global Classrooms Travel Grant, Virtual Exchange/Collaborative Online Learning, UCSC Global Engagement, 2022-2025, $4,000

Online Course Development Grant for Writing 2, UCSC Online Education $4,000

Full-Tuition Scholarship, Stanford University developed Cultivating Compassion Teacher Training, 2020-2021, $6,800

Hemera Contemplative Fellow, 2019-2023, $800

Springboard Grant Recipient, UCSC Office of Research, Industry Alliances & Technology Commercialization (IATC), 2019-2021, $5,000

Online Course Development Grant for Writing 1, UCSC Online Education, 2020, $4,000

Unit-18 Grant Recipient, Faculty Professional Development Award, 2018-2019, $2,800

The OP-ED Project: Public Voices Fellow, 2017

Courses Writing 25: Writing about Place
Writing 26: Writing about Language
Writing 1 & 1E: Introduction to Composition
Writing 2: Rhetoric and Inquiry (Fall 2024)
Crown 80A: Ethical Issues in Emerging Technologies
Crown 80B (Honors): Ethical Issues in Emerging Technologies
Crown 80K: Science, Technology, and Human Biology
Porter 80A: Writing Across the Arts
Rachel Carson College 1: Reading on Environment and Social Justice