Pedagogical Approach

My pedagogical approach is highly practice-based and interactive. I invite students to be radically curious and robustly analytical in their approach to complex contexts. I seek to encourage learners to push themselves and wrestle with seemingly intractable sociocultural landscapes. I intend to support radically inclusive environments that respectfully confront a swath of ideas, concepts, frameworks, and theories about our world and the Universe.

Courses
I have taught several courses in a spectrum of disciplines primarily in Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Anthropology, Transformational Studies, and Diplomacy. I have experience teaching in Sustainable Education, Geography, Environmental Health, Divinity, Sociology, and Social Work.

Undergraduate

My experience teaching undergraduate students encompasses both public and private institutions. I have had the privilege of being a mentor, advisor, and teacher to a wide range of students from introductory courses to small seminars. Whether it is a three-hundred-student lecture course or a small seminar of less than ten students, I try my best to attend to and address the learning needs of diverse learners.

I currently teach an upper-division seminar course. Furthermore, every year I have the privilege of serving on a number of senior theses either as a reader or Chair of a thesis committee.

Courses
Health and Human Rights

Senior Thesis

Graduate

I primarily teach content and methods courses that include dual degree students (MD/MPH, PA/MPH, JD/MPH, BA/MPH), as well as, MPH students. My graduate course instruction often involves the use of case studies from the field, especially in global health and complex humanitarian environments.

Courses
Introduction to Global Health

Qualitative Methods

Qualitative Data Analysis

Social Network Analysis

Health and Human Security

Public Health and Migration

Professional

I have been a course director for the PA/MPH and BA/MPH programs. I also have taught in the MD/MPH curriculum. My work in mental health and psychosocial stabilization pedagogical efforts reflect my commitment to somatic pedagogical approaches.

Courses
BA/MPH

MBS/MPH

PA/MPH

MD/MPH

Integration

Spiritual

I engage in a number of spiritual teaching modalities. As a medical anthropologist, I have learned from a number of sacred healers, shamans and herbalists. I have also integrated a spectrum of esoteric practices with trauma-informed teaching strategies. In this capacity, I work with sacred intimates, body workers, complementary medical providers and traditional spiritual healers. My teaching experiences extend to the esoterica, contemplative arts, expressive arts therapy, somatic and movement studies and spiritual healing practices.

Activities
Shamanism/Babaylan

Process and Relational Theology

Tarot/Oracle/I Ching

Freemasonry