In addition to research, writing, and advocacy, I also teach courses related to my focus areas in climate justice, youth geographies, and social movement studies.
My courses focus on climate and environmental justice, global youth geographies and activism, and geopolitics. I use a multimedia heavy approach in my teaching to create engaging course content. I also encourage students to exercise their creativity in course assignments whether in the form of podcast production, social media content creation, or creative outputs like zines. You can find descriptions of a few courses I've taught below.
Current or Upcoming Courses (@ Penn State)
GEOG 2N: Apocalyptic Geographies (Spring 2025 - Penn State)
It truly is the end of the world, as we know it. Throughout this course, we will explore different visions, imaginaries, and understandings of our ending world(s), considering the mundane yet urgent nature of apocalypse today. We will explore the relationship between different understandings of ending worlds and their relationship to conceptions of just and equitable futures elaborated in Indigenous Studies, Climate and Racial Justice work, Critical Disability Studies, Afrofuturist expression and beyond. We will explore endings and apocalypse across music, literature, pop culture, poetry, film, and memes, among other media.
GEOG 433: Geographies of Justice - Global Environmental & Climate Justice (Fall 2024 - Penn State)
This course surveys the conceptual and material history of environmental and climate change justice theories, frameworks, and movements. Our survey begins by contextualizing the idea of climate justice in relation to foundational theories of environmental justice (EJ), drawing connections between the injustices articulated in EJ inquiry and their extensions/continuations in climate justice approaches. The course also examine key facets and questions surrounding intersectional and global climate (in)justice today, including through close analysis of the United Nations international climate negotiations, engagement with questions of equity between global north and south countries, considerations of climate finance for the most vulnerable nations, debates about temperature targets and the losses faced by island and coastal communities, and through discussions of key concepts such as intersectionality, migration, Indigenous rights, intergenerational and multispecies justice theories, and storytelling.