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About me
I am a keen observer of the human condition, both as a researcher and as an educator. I have come to understand education to be first and foremost a social endeavor. If done well, it emerges from the interaction between individuals through the content they are engaging with. To that end, I provide a variety of experiences in a safe learning environment so learners may explore their interests and grow new ones. My expertise, therefore, is leading that process purposefully yet carefully so that content can transform into actionable knowledge.
In research and in life, I find value in separating what one knows from what one believes, and to specify reasons for the two. I respect principled people even if I do not share their principles. Given the breadth of my interests, life will likely be too short to explore them all but I stand to try anyway.