Helping academics be whole
For 25 years, I’ve been supporting scholars of all stripes in their efforts to do the work that matters most — to themselves, to their communities, to their disciplines, and to the world.
Services
What We Do
We support discernment and reflection, alone and in groups, to name and claim a deeper sense of purpose.
We co-create the structures and systems needed to practice your purpose — in your teaching, research, and public work.
We imagine and build with you not just visions of success and pathways to it, but also assessments of it and storytelling about it.
Experience in brief
20+
years working in higher education
22+
community-engaged curricula nurtured at Cornell University
106
Engaged Faculty Fellows coached
lots
workshops, talks, articles
Why work with us?
You’re busy. You care. You may not have the support you need to get to the heart of what matters in your work. We can help with approaches like these:
- Community-engaged and experiential learning, including ethical partnership development
- Aligning soul and role through seminars, interest groups, fellowship programs, mentorship
- Engaged curriculum and engaged department design and support
- Curriculum mapping for integrity and developmental scaffolding
- Democratically-engaged assessment, including Ripple Effects Mapping
“Thank you so much for your generous guidance and ideas – creating an engaged learning course was the most exciting, growth-inducing, and fulfilling project I worked on…”
“Thank you so much for all you have done to organize/facilitate/coach/support/lead people across Cornell and Beyond to carry out the essential democratic purpose of higher education.”
“What a brilliant, generous, and creative colleague you have been. I have learned much from our collaborations.”
Coming soon:
Favorite Resources
- Some of my favorite writers/thinkersParker Palmer (especially Let Your Life Speak and Hidden Wholeness) adrienne maree brown (especially Emergent Strategy and Holding Change) Alexis Pauline Gumbs (especially Undrowned) Michelle Fine (especially “Critical Civic Research” in Civic Provocations) Curtis Ogden with the Interaction Institute forContinue reading “Some of my favorite writers/thinkers”
- Who I amMy dissertation director once said to my father-in-law: “You know what Anna’s problem is? She’s part academic, part administrator, and part activist.” Dad said “Yep. But why is that a problem?” I’ve spent my whole career, even my whole life,Continue reading “Who I am”
- Process-relationships-results triangleThis concept came from Curtis Ogden and the team at the Interaction Institute for Social Change…and I use it every chance I get.
Scholars as Humans 