Greetings from Harrison, Assistant Director
I’m thrilled at the opportunity to staff the upcoming Global LAB trip to India this fall. It represents for me a chance to shift my teaching focus into the high school and college age range after working most recently with younger students. I am also grateful to have a first hand experience that will address my interests in Eastern cultures and religions.
I focused on Buddhism as an undergraduate, which led me to study abroad in Nepal during my junior year. Those were four of the richest months of my life, and I’m ready to help another group of students have their own meaningful immersion. Today, I continue to find insight and inspiration from the Buddha’s teachings. In addition to nurturing a meditation practice over the past 8 years or so, I have developed a practice of movement and dance, which I teach to all ages. From creative movement to breakdancing, I’m excited about the ways bodily awareness and motion can inform and deepen academic learning or personal experiences. Following this passion, I recently designed a religious studies curriculum that uses kinesthetic learning for my Master of Education thesis. During our three months together, I look forward to adding some embodied experiences to our process of getting to know each other and traveling together.
My personal goal for this trip is to offer positive and supportive mentoring and facilitation to our participants. I’m confident in my life and people skills, and look forward to joining the group in September as we open our eyes and explore our world. I will be working at a mountain camp in Jamaica from July 21 until August 22, after which point I will happily begin making contact with program participants. In the meantime, if you’d like to know more about me you can visit my website at www.dancepath.org
Enjoy these last weeks of summer, and I’ll see you in the fall!