Where are you from? (Hometown)
Glen Arbor, MI; St Louis, MO
Major/Minor
Asst. Professor Sustainability & Educational Studies
What has been the most meaningful idea you’ve discovered or learned so far in preparation for your study abroad to Finland?
How deeply Finnish education integrates sustainability into everyday learning through place-based, experiential, and community-centered approaches, rather than treating it as a separate topic.
For me, the Finland Study Abroad is an opportunity to…
learn alongside students through immersive, place-based experiences and critically explore how systems can cultivate ecological responsibility and social wellbeing.
What do you want to be better at?
Facilitating reflective, culturally responsive learning experiences that connect global sustainability frameworks with local contexts and lived experience.
How does learning about Finnish education, sustainability, and culture shape the way you view, and want to engage with, the world?
It reinforces the power of education to nurture care for people and place, and challenges me to engage more intentionally in community-centered, systems-oriented approaches to sustainability education.