I am a native San Franciscan and a product of San Francisco Unified public schools.  I have lived in many other places including Utah, Wisconsin and Nepal, but  I always end up back at home.

    My interests include bike riding, playing basketball, painting, silk screening, cooking, reading, writing, photography, traveling abroad, studying languages, camping, backpacking and teaching.

    I’m a very curious person and am constantly learning new things everyday.  I hope to bring a love of life-long learning to all of the classes that I teach.  Over the past five summers I have traveled to Guatemala, Nepal, India, Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Colombia.  I aspire to bring a multi-cultural and worldly perspective to the classroom.  In the summer of 2009 I had the opportunity to bring a delegation of Lincoln to students to Nicaragua for an education trip with the organization Global Glimpse.  This past summer I spent five weeks in Colombia, on the Island of Old Providence as part of a Fund For Teachers fellowship. I conducted an oral history project, recorded 8 interviews and am in the processing of creating a webpage to showcase them.  I am excited to start my fifth year at Lincoln as the Department Chair of Social Studies.  Go Mustangs!