I am a professional educator and faculty development consultant. Currently, I’m a lecturer at the University of Texas at Arlington where I teach courses on Multimodal Composition. I am also a contributing writer at ProfHacker, a blog about teaching, technology, and productivity housed at The Chronicle of Higher Education. Along with being an educator and writer, I’m a photographer and a literacy activist. You can find many of my images online (and many of them are for sale through Deviant Art and Etsy). A colleague and I maintain Composing with Images, a weekly, thematic photoblog. We also created CWIP (Composing with Images Press). Our first photography book, Photos for the Gulf, raises money for oil spill relief efforts in the Gulf of Mexico. Our second book Toy Camera Photographers for Tots raises money for the Toys for Tots program. You can find out more about the nonprofit organization I direct, Write to Succeed, Inc., at our website. To learn more about my teaching and research, please click the appropriate links above. To learn more about me and how I’m able to mesh being an educator, an activist, and a writer, with being a mother, a photographer, and an idealist, see my blog, Crossing Borders. If you would like to reach me, click on the “About” tab above to find my email address. Welcome to my online home.