For over 25 years, my career has spanned diverse educational environments and roles navigating new environments, institutional changes, and external forces. My work centers cross-cultural conflict management, student conduct and anti-discrimination work, and culturally relevant pedagogy.

Whether I was teaching To Kill a Mockingbird in a public high school classroom south of Chicago or revising university policy for Title IX or generative artificial intelligence, I love meeting the challenges of a specific moment and place.

I am drawn to questions about how we tell stories, how we learn, and how we do all of that across difference and conflict. I love to teach and learn in community.

I believe that conflict always has potential to move us forward, if we can only learn to harness it and ourselves in the most effective ways.

While my professional educator role is core to who I am, I love my amateur work as a parent, chef, cyclist, gardener, swimmer, and traveler.

"Calibrate" means, "to set an instrument so that readings taken from it are absolute rather than relative" (Oxford English Dictionary).

Growing up as the child and grandchild of engineers who loved to sail, an early lesson for me was the need to understand my individual position relative to the environment.

I have taken that idea into my work helping educational communities interact in ways that transform learners and teachers. My work is in challenging spaces of conflict, conduct, and civil rights. In those difficult situations, I help individuals and teams understand how their own position relates to others and the shared environment.

In that understanding, together we can realize the potential for transformation.