Teaching, Coaching, Tutoring, and Editing

I have nearly 30 years of experience in working in education, from young kiddos in pre-school to adult graduate students at all levels and with differing abilities. Over ten of those years was spent in Special Education—pre-K to 6th—for San Diego Unified Schools, under the guidance and mentorship of my dear friend, the late Karen J. Harris.

I’ve worked in higher education at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) in San Francisco in different capacities for over a decade now. While with the Center for Writing and Scholarship, I held the positions of Distinguished Fellow, Technical Editor, Editing Services Manager, and Mentor—working with a vast array of students who were neurotypical, neurodivergent, or whose first language was not English.

For the last four years, I’ve been with the Office of Student Accessibility Services at CIIS as an Academic Coach, Writing Tutor, and Editor. I work with students who are granted accommodations under the ADA. Some students are neurodivergent, for example being on the Autism spectrum, having ADHD, or PTSD, others have difficulty seeing or are blind, or have brain injuries. I help with executive functions such as scheduling and time management; developing ideas and structure for papers; the detailed requirements of APA or Chicago formatting style; and with a more creative lens, I help with blending the personal voice with the academic.

I recently joined the faculty at CIIS in the East-West Psychology program where I will be teaching doctoral students about research methodologies used in dissertations.

I began my business—Integral Editing—in 2015, working with individuals both inside and outside the academy on book or journal publishing, business ventures, and social media posts. Often, people utilize both aspects of what I offer—the cognitive, structured approaches and the somatic ones.

Since 2022, I have been teaching a series of somatic writing workshops From the Inside Out. There’s a lot more to say about these classes, so it has its own page.

I feel both privileged and honored to say that I have worked with folks from around the world: from Canada to Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, Mexico, Spain, Thailand, China, Guam, the Philippines, Jordan, Japan, as well as across the US.