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My name is Em and I am a master educator, author, and working artist. I have been a practitioner – thinking, and writing about adult education – for over twenty years.

I have taught students of all ages and education levels, in almost all types of learning environments.

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My book, “Building a Trauma-Responsive Educational Practice: Lessons from a Corrections Classroom,” the first book to examine the impacts of trauma on adult learning, is now available. I focused my writing on people impacted by incarceration and the criminal legal system, but trauma can present a profound learning block for people anywhere.

For people who are interested, I have facilitated learning at the National Conference for Higher Ed in Prisons (NCHEP), South Seattle College (WA), the Alberta Correctional Education Association (Canada), the Northwest Regional Equity Conference (WA), the Rising Scholars Network (CA), Towsend University (MD), was a panelist for a C4 Innovations’ Recovery Live event, was an inaugural speaker for the Prison Education Project’s Maggie Garb Virtual Lecture series (see below), and gave a short talk for Empire Health Foundation (WA).

You can find me on LinkedIn and I’ve started a Trauma-Responsive educators listserv. If you are interested in inviting me to speak or teach, please reach out.

News and Events

  • I recently gave a two-part interview on the Tea for Teaching podcast. The first session (Trauma-Responsive Practice) focused on trauma and adult learning. The second session, which includes my colleague and dear friend Bill Keizer, will be available on April 6, features a discussion of teaching and learning in prison.
  • Here is my interview with The Learning Project Network. 
  • I was invited to give a talk for the Maggie Garb inaugural lecture series titled “Trauma, Incarceration, and Ability to Learn: Rediscovering Learning as Adults“
  • Here’s a conversation with a panel on youth organizing with C4Innovates

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