Writing & Talks
My public work lives in two main forms: writing — frameworks and scholarship meant to be used, not just read — and talks that bring those ideas into rooms with faculty, students, and institutions. Below is a curated selection; my full CV holds the complete record.
Writing & Frameworks
The Growth-Oriented Assessment for Learning (GOAL) Framework
The GOAL Framework supports more just, transparent, and relational approaches to learning assessment. It synthesizes ungrading, specifications and labor-based assessment, Universal Design for Learning, trauma-informed pedagogy, and anti-oppressive teaching into a practical approach that treats assessment as a collaborative, equity-centered process rather than a tool for sorting or gatekeeping. It’s in active use by faculty across multiple institutions and anchors the workshop series and communities of practice I co-lead.
From Isolation to Collaborative Innovation: Building an Institutional Community of Practice
A chapter, in an edited volume on student-centered grading, on how a faculty workshop series grew into a sustained, cross-disciplinary community of practice — and what it takes to move grading reform from individual effort to institutional culture.
Talks & Workshops
From Grading Hell to Learning Well: How the GOAL Framework Restores Teaching Joy
Invited presentation · Inaugural Interdisciplinary PhD Day, Portland State University · May 2026
Building Institutional Communities of Practice for Equitable Grading Reform (with Shoshana Zeisman-Pereyo)
Invited workshop · Inaugural Higher Ed Hive: Pacific Northwest Summit (Southwest Center for Human Relations Studies, University of Oklahoma & Portland Community College) · May 2026
Perspectives from the Inaugural InnovAIte Academy Cohort
Invited panelist · InnovAIte Program Culminating Symposium, Portland State University · 2025
Beyond Checkbox Compliance: How to Create a Truly Welcoming and Inclusive Campus for Queer and Trans Students (with C. Tenty)
Invited conference workshop · Western Association for College Admission Counseling (WACAC) Conference · 2021
Carried Away: Gendered Aspiration and Desire in Sister Carrie
Invited conference presentation · Northwest Undergraduate Conference on Literature, Seattle · 2019
Earlier Work
Witches as Queer(ed) Comrades
My undergraduate honors thesis — How Patriarchy, Sexism, and Religious Fanaticism Fueled the Early Modern European Witch Hunts — examines the witch hunts through a queer and feminist lens. Early work, but where a lot of my thinking about power, marginalization, and who gets cast out began.
For the complete record of writing, talks, presentations, and service, see my full CV. To talk about collaborating, get in touch.