My teaching philosophy centers on creating engaging, student-centered learning experiences, it fills me with great joy to help teach future scientists from all backgrounds about the oceans, the history of life, and the world around them.
The Sixth Mass Extinction Taught 3× quarters
EPS 169/269 at Stanford, with Dr. Jonathan Payne. Head TA across Autumn 2024, Winter 2023, and Spring 2023. Helped create the class, designed the syllabus, built activities, and prepared and taught multiple lectures.
Macroevolution Spring 2024
EPS 136/236 at Stanford. Teaching Assistant supporting students in the study of evolutionary patterns across deep time.
Coevolution of Life and Earth Autumn 2022
GEOLSCI 4 at Stanford. Teaching Assistant exploring how life and the planet have shaped one another through geologic time.
Physical Geography, Climate Change Winter 2023 · Guest
Foothill College. Guest lecturer for Week 7: Climate Change, taught a lecture and activities including a paper-chain of 460 circles representing the age of the Earth, climograph exercises, and a Book Club discussion.
Introduction to Paleobiology Summer 2021
Friday Harbor Laboratories at the University of Washington. Taught a module introducing paleobiology to undergraduate and graduate students, incorporating active participation via TopHat.
Mentorship, Payne Paleobiology Lab Summer 2022
Mentored Victor Trujillo and Lucy Helms through Stanford SURGE, and concurrently assisted in mentoring Edward Huang (Bio-X) and Kelly Tung, McKenna Sanders, and Sakeena Saber (Stanford Earth Young Investigators).
Stanford Centennial Teaching Assistant Award · 2025
Teaching these topics has been incredibly rewarding, and in 2025 I was honored to receive Stanford's Centennial Teaching Assistant Award for my work in these classes.
Survive the Great Dying
A game I created for the Sixth Mass Extinction class using publicly available resources. Students vote on choices based on what they've learned in class to help their creature survive the end-Permian mass extinction.
Rules: Get at least 500 points to survive. Vote on PollEverywhere. The answer with the highest submissions is chosen each round.
Contact me for more information about this game and how to use it in your course.