Experience Summary
Holding an M.A. in Sociology from DePaul University, I am a tenured, Assistant Professor of sociology and at the City Colleges of Chicago, where I have taught for over a decade. I am also currently serving as a co-chair of my social sciences department. For the last eight years, I have been a teaching team member within the CCC/DePaul Bridge Program, teaching a race and ethnicity Bridge course, which qualifies DePaul undergraduates for a Diversity Training Certification.
Teaching Style
My pedagogical style emphatically includes small group discussion and activities, formative as well as summative assessments within each session, reciprocal questioning (between me and students, and between students), and opportunities for students to deliver their applications of course content. With respect to using androgogical methods, I offer students opportunities to apply content—especially via research methods—to their own lives and communities, so that they connect their existing knowledge and skills to the content that I introduce. Moreover, I not only deliver content within classrooms but manage supplements and grade all assignments via our Blackboard 9.1 platform. I also help to maintain and manage a Desire2Learn (D2L) platform for the course I teach within our CCC/DePaul University Bridge program.
My Hobbies
Having spent the last decade both teaching sociology and creating performance art, she is deeply fascinated by the convergences of class, race, gender, and even age, in pop cultural media--especially Hip-Hop and Chicago House Music, that coalesce into both a creolized national language and a meta-cultural dialogue. In these times, more than ever, she pursues a “public” sociology, that moves research and theory beyond the classroom into communities at the heart of social research, and among various publics where sociological praxis can be positively and equitably used.