Fun Facts

Growing up, my two favorite subjects were always English and Navajo. Having spent most of my child hood on the Navajo reservation, I was constantly surrounded by a two different languages, and I was very eager to master both. I have turned my love of English into a goal of becoming an English teacher. My love of Navajo transformed into a love of German, a love of Bulgarian and, at the current moment, a love of Chinese. I love languages and I love teaching others about languages.

About Me

I am a graduate student at the University of Arizona studying Teaching English as a Second Language in the English Department. I have always wanted to become an English teacher, but during my undergraduate career, my focus narrowed to teaching English to speakers of other languages. Once I have completed my master's degree, I hope to move abroad and teach English as a foreign language.

I currently teach Freshman Composition (English 101 and 102) at the University of Arizona. Before this, I tutored at the University's Writing Center for over three years. I have also language at an Elementary school level, teaching German in Tucson and English in Puerto Lopez, Ecuador.

My approach to tucson">tutoring is a student-centered one. As class sizes continue to grow, the one-on-one time a student gets from a teacher continues to decrease. tucson">Tutoring is a place for invaluable one-on-one learning to happen. My writing-tucson">tutoring philosophy is centered around the idea that tucson">tutors are there to make better writers and not better writing. The finished product at the end of a tucson">tutoring session is not an assignment that is turned in and forgotten about. The product is the student and the new skills that can be acquired through one-on-one learning.