Teaching

rfTo teach is not to transfer knowledge but to create the possibilities
for the production or construction of knowledge.

~ Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of Freedom

Cal Poly State University, SLO

  • Comparative Societies (Introduction to sociology)
  • Culture of Latin America (Peru)
  • Culture of Spain
  • Honors for Social Change
  • Incarceration and Society
  • International Political Economy
  • Professional Development, Sociology
  • Senior Project I, II
  • Social Change
  • Social Problems
  • The World System and Its Problems
  • United States Race and Ethnic Relations
  • Appropriate Technology for the Developing World (co-taught)

University of Minnesota

  • Introduction to Sociology
  • Sociological Perspectives on Race, Class, and Gender
  • Sociological Research Methods

University of California, Santa Barbara

  • Spanish 1, Spanish 2

UCSB graduate teaching assistant

  • Black Studies 1
  • Black Studies 38B
  • Latin American and Iberian Studies 100

Cuesta College ( students in a California state prison)

  • Introduction to Sociology
  • Social Problems

Other Teaching Experience

  • First Aid/CPR Instructor-American Red Cross
  • Religion Teacher-Mission College Preparatory High School, San Luis Obispo, CA
  • Youth Minister-Nativity of Our Lady Church, San Luis Obispo, CA
  • Resource Teacher, 3rd and 4th Grade- Nuestros Pequenos Hermanos Orphanage, La Venta, Honduras
  • Kayak Instructure and Guide-Central Coast Kayaks