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• Organization

  Collin County Commuity College District

  
  
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• Interests

  1. botany
  2. conservation biology
  3. diversity and inclusion in STEM
  4. ecology
  5. Ecosystem Ecology
  6. Environmental Sciences
  7. Human Impacts on Ecosystems
  8. Inclusive teaching
  9. natural history education
  10. social and environmental justice
  11. Universal Design for Learning (UDL)

  
  
• Biography

  I am an Ecosystem Ecologist, who teaches Environmental Science at a community college in the Dallas/Fort Worth Area in Texas. After working in environmental consulting and academia for a number of years, I found my professional home teaching and conducting research with undergraduate students at Collin College. Many of my students are non-traditional students: veterans, international students, and first-generation Americans, who are working and supporting families while completing course work; many of them are the first in their families to do so.
  
  I have been teaching Environmental Science (first and second semester courses) at Collin College full-time for six years. Each semester, I teach multiple sections of two courses (first semester and second semester Environmental Science) to mostly non-science majors. In these courses, we discuss everything from basic Chemistry to Environmental Justice. My biggest challenge is keeping the course from becoming “Why Humans Are Bad 101” and focusing our discussions on solving the immense (self-inflicted) challenges that face us. I try to do this by providing my students with data and opportunities to use those data to develop their analytical and problem-solving skills.
  
  One of the areas we focus on in my courses is Environmental Justice issues. Because so many of these injustices are rooted in how we have organized and created our communities, I use Geographic Information Systems (GIS) tools and spatially related data to introduce students to environmental justice issues and to promote discussion of solutions for these issues.

  
  
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