Teaching

I teach with an interdisciplinary, student-centered approach that emphasizes critical thinking, creativity, and real-world engagement. Whether in college classrooms or university seminars, I aim to create inclusive, accessible learning environments that invite students to connect theory with lived experience—especially in areas like food systems, sustainability, and social change. Across my courses, I enjoy integrating creative assignments that encourage deep engagement with the material and support student-driven research.

Course Instruction

Alexander College, Department of Social Sciences – Vancouver, BC

College Instructor | 2020–Present

Teach a range of introductory social science courses with a focus on engaging international and first-year students through accessible, interdisciplinary methods.

Concordia University, Faculty of Fine Arts – Montreal, QC

Sessional Instructor | 2015–2018

We Are What We Eat: Introduction to Food Studies

Developed and taught this undergraduate course exploring food systems, sustainability, and critical design thinking through lectures, fieldwork, and participatory assignmentsPublications

Workshops & Public Teaching Presentations

2022

Recreate, Redesign and Restore: Food Systems of Hope — MTL Connect, Montreal, QC (Oct 15–23)

2021

Everyone Makes Waste: Using Accessible Art and Design Practices to Increase the Visibility of Food-based Waste — Food Matters & Materialities Conference (Virtual, hosted by Carleton University, Sept 22–25)

2018

EAT, WASTE, MAKE for 2030: Experimenting with a Critical Design Process as an Everyday Intervention to Waste Production — Transitions 2018, Montreal (Feb 2–4)

2017

Encounter 2030: Food Waste and Speculative Visioning — Non-Compliant Futures, Sight & Sound Festival, Eastern Bloc, Montreal (Sept 28–Oct 1)

Performing Food, Eating Ourselves: A Little Embodied Course Work — Joint CAFS/CATR Praxis Session, Ryerson University, Toronto

What We Waste: Subverting Domestic Food Practices with Experimental Creation-Based Methodologies — Collaboratory for Ethnographic Experimentation Workshop, University of Lisbon, Portugal

2016

Rotting Potatoes: Participatory Making with Food Waste — Interactive Workshop, Concordia University, Montreal

Encounters Between Matters of Food and Waste — Consumption and Detritus Symposium, Concordia University, Montreal