About
I have taught with CSP for nine years and supported our program for over 25 years. My scholarship has shifted during this time, from cultural theory, and gender studies, deep into disability studies, and further into narrative research, DEI, trauma biography, resistance and reparations. My books include Points of Contact: Disability, Art, and Culture; Deep: Real Life with Spinal Cord Injury; The Narrative Form Index and Matrix; and Nine Lives, as well as over many journal articles and blogs. I am a proud generalist at Michigan, emphasizing whole students and comprehensive, fair learning.
I view our university and human civilization as interdependent, yet both wholly dependent on our sensitivity to environment. As such, I spend my free time activating on immigration, racial justice, LGBTQ+ quality of life, land and lake conservation, and Jewish multiculturalism. I also want to bring beauty and grace back into righteousness. I am an amateur botanical muralist and seasoned maker of Judaica, creator of the Tzedek (Justice) Collection for the Center for Creative Change/Moment Magazine. In 2019, I was honored to present the Tzedek Collar to late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Ginsburg wore the Tzedek Collar on the first day of her last session at Court, as she heard cases that attacked LGBTQ rights in the US launched by the Trump administration. She taught me the value of not letting others down, and I still listen.
