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About Me

'We don't see the world as it is, we see it as we are' - Anais Nin

I am a 4th generation Bay Area native, currently living in Santa Cruz. I have been teaching since 2001, and have been full-time at De Anza since 2005. I lived for 12 years in Taos, New Mexico, and 1 year in France, and I still enjoy speaking French and Spanish. I love the De Anza students, and I want my classes to give students opportunities to know themselves more deeply, to learn in ways that are meaningful to them, and to discover and respect what they already know. 

In addition to teaching Humanities, I am currently also the Faculty Director of the California History Center, where my office is now located: deanza.edu/califhistory/  

"As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live." -Goethe

"Beauty will save the world." - Dostoevsky

Classes I Teach

Fall 2024

CRN	Course	Sec.	Title
26387	HUMI 1	01S	Creative Minds
01216	HUMI 1	50Z	Creative Minds
22238	HUMI 1	55Z	Creative Minds

Summer 2024

CRN	Course	Sec.	Title
10226	HUMI 7	61Z	The Arts and the Human Spirit
01104	HUMI 9	61Z	Introduction to Comparative Religion

Course Syllabi

Humi 1 - Creative Minds

Humi 9 - Comparative Religion

Humi 7 - Arts & the Human Spirit