Teaching & Public Education

I have over a decade of experience tutoring and teaching, as well as facilitating workshops in humanities subjects. Below are flyers from different classes I’ve taught recently. If you’re interested in having me teach for your organization, feel free to use the contact form linked on the dashboard above.

“Science Fiction & Society” is inspired by our contemporary, dystopian present. I taught this summer of 2025, hosted by We Are Urban Haiku. Available to the public online, this class is for creative and critical writers, readers, and teachers who want an in-depth study of the genre.

In the summer of 2024, I taught “Speculative Fiction, Society, and Media” for high schoolers in the Meridian Freedom Project Network Program in Mississippi. We learned about the power of myths and monsters, read and watched movies about time travel and superheroes, and performed a dramatic interpretation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Learn more about Freedom Summer Collegiate here.

My “Introduction to African American Literature” class features nearly 400 years of literary and expressive cultural history of African Americans across genre: short fiction by Charles Chesnutt and N.K. Jemisin; poetry by Essex Hemphill and Lucille Clifton; music by Ma Rainey, Lil Nas X, and Nina Simone; visual art by Augusta Savage, Kara Walker, and Jean-Michel Basquiat; and novels by Zora Neale Hurston, Octavia E. Butler, Toni Morrison, and Jesmyn Ward.

This speculative poetry workshop is inspired by Stevie Wonder’s “Superstitions”. Weaving together his music with a lesson on folklore and speculative fiction, I lead participants through a workshop to create speculative poems about “belief”. Originally designed for the Paper Plains Zine Fest in Lawrence, KS.