I was raised on a small dairy farm in Central New York and now I live in Lincoln and hold a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Nebraska. In between I fell in love with the transformative power of education, with the excitement of digging into a difficult question, with the beauty of the answers to those questions, no less when they are wrong than when they are right.
As an Assistant Program Coordinator for the William H. Thompson Scholars Learning Community, my purpose is enabling students to fully experience these things that I love so much. I want to help students to see that there is more to reading than understanding the words, that there is more to writing than filling a page with sentences. I aim to show students that they are more than passive recipients of information; they have the capacity to actively increase understanding, to extend and deepen the body of human knowledge rather than just to benefit from the contributions of others.