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My teaching employs a range of styles allowing students with different backgrounds and learning preferences different avenues for their individual success. In order to engage students, I use direct instruction, flipped classroom where student lead classroom discussion on topics and current events that relate to the curriculum, and experiential models for teaching where field work and in-class exercises reinforce theories and principles learned during more traditional direct instruction and lectures. I have designed and implemented multiple elective courses based on my research and expertise: Urban Environmental Justice, Anthropology of Water Justice, Water and Society, Water Management in Urban America. These courses are diverse in their disciplinary bounds; however, I strive in each to bring a holistic and critical perspective that cuts across disciplinary siloes. In addition this year,  I and designing and teaching two new courses - Slow Food: A Chef's Guide to Environmental Restoration (Fall 2024) and Ecology of Fly Fishing (Spring 2025) that harnesses the liberal arts approach, experiential and engaged  models of learning , and use unique and interesting lens to explore our relationship with the natural world.