About

When I considered what I had to offer, in terms of skill and passion, to the world I want to participate in creating, I kept circling around topics in education (specifically communication and media literacy). I’ve often thought that it’s iniquitous the way that so much knowledge is kept behind the paywall of college tuition and the obscurity of academic language.

As a student, a professor, and a person, I have felt a dissatisfaction that I could not seem to resolve; there were subjects I wanted to study but I had reached the end of my studies, there were courses I wanted to teach but no class at my college appropriate for the curriculum I wanted to create, and there were thoughts I wanted to communicate but no platform to share them.

I want to create a communications curriculum that functions as an instrument of freedom. Something not in service of attaining a degree, but in learning the skills that will help us understand ourselves and our world better. More specifically and urgently, I want to use this as an opportunity to reach out to those who wish to change the world for the better but feel they lack the words to do so.

While all the thoughts and words contained here are my own (except for the abundance of quoted material sprinkled throughout), I want it to be clear that these ideas are not new. I have discovered nothing — every idea within this website was forged through years of reading, watching, and listening to the works of other people (hence all the recommendations), having discussions with other people, and observing the world around me.

Please engage with any online content (and I really do mean any — not just here, but anywhere) ethically, with respect, and with love. If there is one thing that has become clear to me over the last several years, it’s that we will only reach our potential if we act with integrity and live for the world we want. Fighting against tyranny, oppression, injustice, hierarchy, greed, ignorance, and hate in the world we have is crucial; fighting for a world of freedom, joy, justice, community, care, knowledge, and love is essential.