Educator

My background as an educator is unconventional and varied in nature, extending from experience in teaching community-based arts programs to university level instruction. In 1990, my first job after receiving my BA incorporated teaching and developing an art curriculum for pregnant teens and teen mothers for the Los Angeles School District. Throughout the 1990s in the LA area, I worked as an instructor/artist-in-residence for a number of non-profit arts organizations including Armory Center for the Arts, International Child Art Collection, and Kidspace Museum.

During graduate school I began to teach college students. For several years after receiving my Masters, I taught computer-generated art for the Studio Art Program at the University of Rochester and all levels of undergraduate black and white photography courses at State University of New York at Brockport.

Upon return to the west coast, I worked with serveral colleges and community non-profits teaching photography and digital media in the Portland area; including Pacific Northwest, at the PNCA, Mt Hood Community College, Newspace Center for Photography, and Portland Community College. I also taught a variety of digital art courses at Sierra Canyon School, an independent middle and high school in the n the Los Angeles area for three years. Currently I am an instructor of Photography at Portland Community College.