I teach in two worlds that I refuse to keep separate: the university classroom and the labor education program. In both, I start from the same premise — that the people in the room already know a great deal about work, power, and inequality from their own lives, and that my job is to bring that knowledge into conversation with research, history, and each other. My classrooms are bilingual and inclusive by design, and they treat workers' experiences as a source of theory, not just an object of it.
Human Trafficking: Global and Local Perspectives (CSCS 410, UW–Madison, 2024 and 2025) — an interdisciplinary examination of trafficking and severe labor exploitation that pushes past rescue narratives to examine the labor, migration, and policy structures that produce vulnerability.
New for Fall 2026: Global Health and Communities: From Research to Praxis (CSCS 500, UW–Madison).
Earlier, at the University of Oregon, I designed and taught Unfree Labor and Racial Capitalism, Sociology of Emotions, and Introduction to Sociology — and was honored with the Charles W. Hunt Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching (2022).
As School for Workers faculty, the bulk of my teaching happens outside the credit system: workers' compensation, health and safety, know-your-rights, stewards trainings, contract campaigns, and leadership institutes, in Spanish and English, with unions and worker centers across Wisconsin. That programming is described on the Labor Education & Community Engagement page.
I mentor graduate and undergraduate students working on labor, migration, and community-engaged methods — and I'm always glad to hear from students whose projects sit at those intersections.