Greetings! I am a librarian at Cal Lutheran's Pearson Library and in the past have
taught in the Religion department for the Professionals program. I am a 12th-generation
American and my family and ethnic heritage is of Western and Northern European descent,
including ancestors from Scotland, England, Ireland, France, Germany, and Scandinavia.
I am married and am a mother and grandmother who loves to tell stories and work with
my hands. My academic interests are broad, yet seem to coalesce in what it means to
be a person, and how we can live well with others. These others include those we might
lovingly call animal people, bird people, river people, and plant people. My favorite
first teachers and companions were the ash trees and the birds that lived in my childhood
yard. As a philomath, I have spent much of my adult life learning about all the worlds
we inhabit, or hope to inhabit. My formal education and professional research interests
are broad and interdisciplinary, a fact that can be observed in my Curriculum Vitae.
My awe of mystery and love for knowledge, for creativity, for others, and for the
natural world flow outward in my life and work as an educator and spiritual leader.
A lifelong Southern California resident, you can often find me in contemplation at
the seashore (and in the waves!), or hiking and mountain biking the trails in the
Ojai Valley where I live.
Humanities: Western Philosophy and Theology; the Modern Human Subject
Education:
Ph.D., 2022
Humanities - Philosophy
Faulkner University, Montgomery, AL
"The Who of Climate Change"
Master of Arts, 2014
Intellectual Leadership
A.W. Tozer Theological Seminary
Simpson University, Redding, CA
"An Ecumenical Approach to Immigration Reform"
Master of Science, 2012
Library Science
University of North Texas, Denton, TX
Bachelor of Arts
Global Studies
University of Northwestern, St. Paul, MN
Publications:
"Aligning Practice with Belief: Bringing Antiracist Information Literacy and Writing
Instruction to an HSI Lutheran University.” WPA: Writing Program Administration Special
Issue: Black Lives Matter and Antiracist Projects in Writing Program Administration,
vol. 4, no. 3, Summer 2021. pp. 162 - 168. (With Jolivette Mecenas and Meghan Kwast
).
“Antiracist and Faith-Based: Critical Pedagogy-Informed Writing and Information Literacy
Instruction at a Hispanic-Serving, Lutheran Liberal Arts University.” Radical Teacher
- A Socialist, Feminist, and Anti-Racist Journal on the Theory and Practice of Teaching,
vol. 121, 9 December 2021. pp 14 -23 (With Jolivette Mecenas and Meghan Kwast).
Grant Funding:
2020 State of California Electronic Library Consortium (SCELC) COVID-19 Grant for
innovation in virtual library instruction
2017 Pearson Library, CLU History Department: National Library of America & the National
Endowment for the Humanities: World War I and America
View My Curriculum Vitae
