I joined the University Writing Program in 2018 after completing my PhD in Communication Studies at the University of Iowa. My pedagogy centers on questions of racial/social justice, social change, critical media studies, rhetoric, intersectionality, and democratic and civic engagement, all of which is informed by my doctoral training, personal commitments, and scholarship. In my classes, I invite students to challenge their preconceived conceptions of the world by engaging expert and other critical/activist perspectives on the above themes through different modalities of critical thinking, discussion, reading, writing, presentations, reflection, and revision. As such, the readings and texts I assign primarily center the voices and perspectives of BIPOC and other marginalized scholars, authors, and activists as I encourage a classroom space grounded in accountability, humility, empathy, and “rhetorical listening” (Ratcliffe). With these themes and perspectives in mind, students will conduct cross-disciplinary humanities-based research to make informed, critical arguments in written or presentation form while continuously revising their work for improvement and by joining and contributing to academic conversations through integrating credible sources in ethical ways. Together, students and I will consider what it means to live in this unprecedented moment of heightened inequality, inequities, and precarity, mis- and dis-information, intensified restrictions of civil liberties and human rights, and ascendent fascism across the globe… and how one might help bring about a better possible future for all.