Current & Past Work
Educator & Community Discussion Guides
Not So Pure and Simple by Lamar Giles
Becoming YA Edition by Michelle Obama
Let Me Hear a Rhyme Tiffany D. Jackson
All the Things We Never Knew by Liara Tamani
We Are Not From Here By Jenny Torres Sanchez
The Beautiful Struggle YA Edition by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Zonia’s Rainforest by Juana Martinez-Neal
Hemingway by Ken Burns (Documentary)
Dreams From My Father YA Edition by Barack Obama
When We Make It by Elisabet Velasquez
A Phoenix First Must Burn by Patrice Caldwell
Star Child by Ibi Zoboi
Allies: Real Talk About Showing Up, Screwing Up, and Trying Again
A Year To The Day by Robin Benway
The Door of No Return by Kwame Alexander
Online Publications
“Riding Schools of Reading Trauma” American Libraries Magazine
“Going Gradeless in Urban Education” -teachersgoinggradeless.com
“The Switch to Genrefication” — American Libraries Magazine
Professional Accomplishments and Accolades
MAEd, MA, MLIS (2023)
- NCTE Affiliate President – Colorado Language Arts Society
- Past President, 2015-2016
- Assistant Online Editor, Statement, 2012-Present
- NCTE Diversity and Inclusivity Task Force Member – 2016-2019
- NCTE Executive Board Member 2018-2020
- Divergent Award for Excellence in Literary Advocacy 2020 (with #DisruptTexts)
- NCTE CLAS High School Teacher of Excellence 2020
- ALAN Board of Directors
- Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award Committee Member 2020-2022
- Educolor Steering Committee Member 2020-Present
- Book Love Foundation Board Member 2020-Present
- Library Journal Mover and Shaker 2020
- Denver Public Schools Distinguished Educator 2017, 2018, 2019