Mapping the Journey in a Time of Unpredictable Destinations
I'm a Professor in the Gender Institute for Teaching and Advocacy at Metropolitan State University Denver where I teach courses on love, sex, identity, leadership, storytelling, narrative, emerging traditions, the art of everyday life, and global beauty cultures. In my teaching we focus less on "stuff" than the process of personal transformation, using the subject matter as catalysts on your journey, making each class ultimately about you. I mentor students in all majors and was awarded Outstanding Faculty Advisor in 2026. I work with first generation students, academic misfits, nontraditional older students, students curious about graduate school, and those who straddle multiple professional and personal identities. My own creative/scholarly work includes peer-reviewed illustrated articles, autoethnographic essays, and ethnographic studies in journals and in anthologies from scholarly publishers including Routledge, University Press of Mississippi, and University Press of Kentucky.
A way to start the journey: Tell me what you are hoping to gain from a pathway mentor -- what is the dilemma you keep returning to? Time to tell a bit of your story and time to ask me anything so that you can make an informed decision about whether or not to sign up for the Pathways bundle and dig deep into the big questions about life that you return to again and again.
Life is about the journey they say, not the destination but still, everyone asks you "what are you doing to do with that?" You're used to advisors helping you path to get to a particular goal but in today's world, will that career even exist by the time you've trained for it? With this bundle, we'll talk about your life and what matters to you. We'll talk about your options and what steps make sense to take next and how to make the journey worth enough that each step IS the destination.
A low-pressure interview and storytelling session where you get to tell me what's important to you and where you've been on your journey so far. This will inform the direction and structure of future sessions.
A way to start the journey: Tell me what you are hoping to gain from a pathway mentor -- what is the dilemma you keep returning to? Time to tell a bit of your story and time to ask me anything so that you can make an informed decision about whether or not to sign up for the Pathways bundle and dig deep into the big questions about life that you return to again and again.
Life is about the journey they say, not the destination but still, everyone asks you "what are you doing to do with that?" You're used to advisors helping you path to get to a particular goal but in today's world, will that career even exist by the time you've trained for it? With this bundle, we'll talk about your life and what matters to you. We'll talk about your options and what steps make sense to take next and how to make the journey worth enough that each step IS the destination.
A low-pressure interview and storytelling session where you get to tell me what's important to you and where you've been on your journey so far. This will inform the direction and structure of future sessions.