MFA - Ohio State: Printmaking
BFA - Wright State: Painting
Pacific Northwest College of Art
Certificates: COBOL | Web Development
Licensure - St. Mary of Woods College
TICA - 2008
Russell Peters Outstanding Teacher - 2008
"I use the book format as a vehicle for dialogue about class inequity, and how it impacts acquisition of language literacy skills; more specifically, the ability to read as a primary predictor of academic success, and frighteningly, as a predictor of overall success in life. A sad fact is that the estimate of the future prison population is derived from the number of children in the third grade, boys in particular, who do not read at grade level."