Teaching

Facilitating learning is where I find my most pure form of joy. While much of my teaching is in universities, I have facilitated and lead anti-oppression trainings since 2021 and various outdoor educational talks ranging in plant identification, tree ring sciences, and botanical swims since 2019 to over 800 folks.

Within the university system, I have instructed and co-instructed over 440 students. I aim to incorporate and design creative assignments that are focused on student interests and transgressive teaching methods (shoutout bell hooks) to engage in a wide range of disciplines and knowledge systems.

Below is a table of the classes I have taught thus far in post-secondary education, my role, year, and number of students:

** = New Co-Created Class

Course	University	Role	Term(s)	Number of Students
Intro to Environmental Studies (EVST 1012)	UC	Lead Instructor	Spring 2026	44
Advanced Field Ecology (NR 4210)	UI	Lead Instructor	Fall 2025	4
** Geohumanities: Mapping a Sense of Place (ENGL/GEOG 400)	UI	Co-Instructor	Spring 2025	17
Climate Change Fiction (ENGL 322)	UI	Lead Instructor	Spring 2025	29
Decolonizing, Indigenous, & Action-Based Research Methods (ED 592)	UI	Teaching Assistant	Spring 2025	19
** Climate Futures Catalyzing Change (Prison Education Initiative CORS 246)	UI	Lead Instructor	Fall 2024	19
** Climate Futures Catalyzing Change (In-Person CORS 246)	UI	Lead Instructor	Fall 2024	87
Introduction to Inequity & Inclusion (SOC 201)	UI	Lead Instructor	Fall 2024	46
Global Climate Change (GEOG 313)	UI	Lead Instructor	Spring 2024	45
Geography of Middle Earth (GEOG 220)	UI	Teaching Assistant	Spring 2023	16
Introduction to Planet Earth Lab (GEOG 101L)	UI	Teaching Assistant	Fall 2022 Spring 2023	61
Global Climate Change (GEOG 220)	UI	Teaching Assistant	Fall 2022	46
Engaging at University (HON 100)		Peer Mentor	Fall 2020	25

UC = University of Cincinnati, UI = University of Idaho, & EKU = Eastern Kentucky University

Syllabi will be added soon!

Educational Videos

Below is a mini archive of talks that I have given or facilitated in a classroom, please enjoy!

PhD Dissertation Defense May 2025

3 Minute Thesis (3MT) University of Idaho 2025—Climate Pedagogies for On-Campus & Incarcerated Communities

Interdisciplinary Fire Lookout Conference Presentation 2025

Looking and Building for More Just Futures in the Climate Crisis at the Wildland Urban Interface – Nick Koenig & Emily Lane

EKU BIOs Seminar October 2020

Kentucky Native Plant Society iNaturalist Tutorial

Climate Futures: Catalyzing Change Greenhouse Gas In-Class Activity

Working for the Climate: Jobs Beyond Big Oil Speaker Series

The following speaker series was created in response to a Big Oil recruiter’s invitation at a previous institution I was working at. The goal was to show my undergraduate and fellow graduate students that there many applications of climate science and geoscience degrees outside of the worst corporations to have existed.

Corporate Climate Accountability of Fossil Fuels by Dr. Shaina Sadai

The Wildfire-Urban Interface by Emily Lane

Climate FuSS?! Climate Futures Speaker Series

Climate FuSS?! or Climate Futures Speaker Series was a speaker series I organized in Spring 2024 with the intent on reclaiming “fussy” and complaining in academic institutions (shoutout Sarah Ahmed) as marginalized folks are often ostracized for doing while cis-hetero patriarchy maintains the status quo. The series had 13 speakers and over 600 attendees, here are some of the speakers’ lectures.

Climate x Art by Professor Stacy Isenbarger*

* Special note, Stacy has since passed away and I hope folks can enjoy her brilliance and make some funky art in her memory. She will continually be a beacon in which I aspire to create art and thankful for everything she gave to the world.