Teaching Experience

Teaching Philosophy

My teaching philosophy is rooted deeply in the idea that the goal of a post-secondary education is to give rise to engaged global citizens and that the best way to accomplish this is through empowering students to ask the questions that they value and to give them the appropriate methodological approaches to answer them. As a Communication and Identity researcher, I strive to encourage students to not only think critically about the ways in which power is communicated through mediated messages, interpersonal, and mass personal interactions, but how to actively respond and produce content in ways that are productive and useful for the student’s professional and academic development as well.

Breadth of Experience

At the University of Washington I independently planned and taught the following courses:

  • Communication, Power, and Difference

  • Cultural Impacts of Technology

  • Intercultural Communication

  • International Media Images

  • Introduction to Communication

  • Introduction to Public Speaking

  • Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Media

  • Race, Gender, and Power in Asian American Media

I was employed as a Teaching Associate in the following courses:

  • Communication, Power, and Difference

  • Introduction to Communication

  • Introduction to Public Speaking

  • Perspectives on Language and Communication

  • Visual Communication


Syllabi and Evaluations

Please contact me if you are interested in seeing a sample syllabus or teaching evaluations.