I am a Teaching Fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles, where I instruct and assist with courses on critical dance studies, dance history, undergraduate writing composition, disability studies, and dance technique. I am a recipient of the 2023-2024 Distinguished Teaching Award, which recognizes UCLA faculty and graduate students for their excellence in pedagogy. I was also a 2021-2022 Collegium of University Teaching Fellow, which provided me with the resources to self-design an undergraduate seminar. My course, “Performing Multiracialism: Theorizing Multiracial Representation and Interpretation in Twenty-First Century Performance” (Spring 2022) was a writing-intensive seminar that explores the construction of multiracial discourses in contemporary performance forms.
My approach to teaching foregrounds student involvement and experience. The classroom is established as a collaborative space; I, as instructor, collaborate with students to ensure a learning experience that supports, yet challenges, all involved. As a dance instructor, I am committed to critically addressing and interrogating the white supremacist and Eurocentric foundation of dominant North American post-secondary dance programs. As a teacher of ballet and Limón technique, I strive to centralize anti-racist pedagogies into my teaching philosophies. I am also interested in the possibilities that teaching dance online and remotely offers, particularly as they pertain to the creation of more accessible learning environments.