I come from a family of teachers, so perhaps it’s not surprising that I too became one. After graduating college, I worked as a middle school special education teacher in Arizona. The days were long, especially that first year, but it was there where I realized how much I loved the creative craft and challenge of education.

Since then I’ve taught in a wide variety of settings: the seminary classroom, the undergraduate classroom, the prison chapel, the Sunday school classroom and nursery, and the Zoom classroom. Each setting and each collection of students have stretched my imagination about how I can continue to refine my craft.