“William was an excellent professor who took the time to create and cultivate an open, and inviting environment. I appreciate how honest and real he is.”

— Former Student

A core principle of my approach to teaching is to co-create inclusive learning environments with careful attention to both course content and collective process. I intimately know the power of inclusive and engaging support that creates room for students to be caretakers of their own intellectual and affectual learning, so they feel prepared to thrive as learners, leaders, and agents of change. I have completed rigorous pedagogical training and have extensive experience as a teacher and facilitator, including course instruction and teaching assistantships, awarded teaching fellowships, course and workshop facilitation, and the development of weekly learning spaces (i.e., Space for Uprooting Whiteness). My wide range of experiences allow me to be an effective and flexible educator and meet a wide variety of student learning needs.

In a society that attempts to exponentially grow our apathy and dull our motivation for radical action and care, my teaching pedagogy seeks to cultivate curiosity and movement—moving and being moved. Movement in this context has many meanings: intellectual, affectual, psychological, practical, social, and other experiences of shifting and changing. I guide students to co-create inclusive learning environments with careful attention to both course content and collective process. Students learn how to think critically, holistically, and compassionately by engaging in iterative self-reflection, healthy conflict, community building, and the development of analytical tools. Perhaps most importantly, my teaching practices and values require a foundation in love. I deeply care about being in study with other people and that we collectively cultivate spaces to study with one another without fear. On their pathways to becoming people of consequence out in the world, I challenge students to—as James Baldwin calls it—be and act otherwise.