Teaching
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I have taught a variety of undergraduates: philosophy majors, other humanities students, STEM-majors, and pre-health undergraduates. Courses taught as a teaching assistant or associate include Introduction to Ethical Theory, Introduction to Political Philosophy, and Introduction to Philosophy of Science; upper-division courses include Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Medicine, Feminist Epistemology, and Medicine and Disability, for which I was the course designer and lead instructor.
One of my greatest honors during my time at UCLA was winning the Yost Prize for Excellence in Teaching. The Yost Prize is selected by faculty members for outstanding performance as a teaching assistant or associate.
Undergraduate
Medical School
With my postdoc, I have had the unique opportunity to help develop the medical school’s new ethics curriculum for first-year medical students. I designed and taught the disability ethics seminar, where I centered core tenets of disability justice in the context of the concurrent clinical curriculum. The seminar was a success with students, and my lesson plans will continue to be used in coming years.
Graduate
During my fourth year of my PhD, I served as the elected Teaching Associate Coordinator (TAC). The TAC, elected by the graduate student body, both manages fellow TAs and is responsible for training new ones. This means that as TAC, I had the unique opportunity to teach other PhD students how to teach undergraduate philosophy. Approaching the classroom as a space to lead by example and as a place to teach both humility and charity were the guiding principles of the course, Teaching College Philosophy, that I developed and led.