In Literacies of the Rainbow Corn Mother: A Queer Indigenous Eye for DEI, we rethink belonging and inclusion by centering queer theory, Indigenous education and human rights education.
Find collage work in Crafting Homeplace in the Academic Borderlands.
Gadugi isn’t just a principle of community—it’s a guiding vision for how we can treat each other across differences. Read a short piece I wrote on connecting gadugi to a practice we can all do.
I’m an introvert that finds great joy in connecting with others and preserving space to recharge the glycogen ducts. When time permits, I’m usually serving on a board, singing in a community choir and opera, cymbaling in a marching band, or being a plant daddy for flying saucer cacti.
Inspired by intersections with human rights and peace education, I’m usually weaving something around joy and well-being with justice work, listening to lessons from time immemorial, UNDRIP and SDGs in writing, teaching and presenting.
Recently I’ve presented in Aotearoa with the International Peace Research Association, CIES, the illusive NCORE and for the Center for Humanizing Education and Research. You can find a salacious piece on DEI and a collage as part of a piece related to homeplace. Look for some forthcoming publications with the SAGE Encyclopedia of Indigenous Education, Rutgers University Press, and Vernon Press for a chapter in Decolonizing the Curriculum: Teaching Race and Developing Knowledge about Indigenous Literature.
You’ll also see some upcoming pieces on unlearning and experiential education, examining how we can undo those wicked ways of modernity to dance and celebrate with our shared humanity around the world.
My recent dissertation asks how we can do justice work in the world by moving away from Global North–centric wellness ideas that complicate finding solutions. It centers global voices from human rights leaders, Indigenous communities, and queer practitioners. An abstract should be ready later this year. I’ll share workshops and articles for Traversing Contentions Among Human Rights Practitioners: An Exploration of Futurizing Wellness with Joyful Human Rights and Indigenous and Queer Paradigms To Activate Well-Being.