During the 2014-2015 academic year, I served as co-facilitator of a graduate learning community that explored the challenges educators face in negotiating difference and power in college classrooms, particularly around issues of race.  The learning community was an outgrowth of the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching's year-long focus on Teaching, Power and Difference. 

In my role as co-facilitator, I led monthly conversations on topics such as stereotype threat , microaggressions, and pedagogical approaches to teaching race. Download the syllabus here. 

To the right is a video that I created for the Center for Teaching's "Teaching, Power and Difference" end-of-the-year symposium. The video features learning community participants' reflections on race and learning as well as what they gained through the learning community experience.  

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