Looking for My Parallel
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The Pull of the Wild
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The Mermaid Myth We Need
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Sprinting and the Long Way
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The Goddess of Inevitability
Wild Rice Royalty
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Secrets in Limestone
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Heart Root
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Underground Networks: The Quiet Power of Mycelium
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Dressing the Surface
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A Door in the Floor of the Forest
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First, a Cracking Through
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Marketing Handicrafts to the World via the Internet
Recently I had the opportunity to make a presentation to Home Economics students at Alexandria University in Egypt! I am sad to say I did not get to visit this cradle of textiles culture in person but thanks to the power of the internet, I was able to ...
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Nominee for IFHE President Elect
In 2017, I was very honored to be approached by members of my region to submit my name as a nominee for IFHE President Elect. As part of the Leadership Council meeting in Khartom, Sudan in 2018, I developed and presented a 5 minute video about my visio...
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YouTube Launch!
In preparation for taking my online textiles course to a wider audience, I have just launched Textile Update as a YouTube channel. Click on the playlist above or click here to be taken to the channel: Textile Update I don’t plan to use the channel to ...
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Rewarding Innovation
I had an intriguing conversation with a new friend in Copenhagen last week. She teaches innovation to Nutrition and Foods students at a professional school in the city. Over lunch we talked about working with colleagues to create improvements (not even...
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Being More
I developed a professional website last year based on the encouragement I received during my ACE Fellowship. Both a fellow Fellow and a mentor at my host institution suggested that I have a unique perspective as an academic and I should share this with...
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Leadership: How I See It
One of the first questions my fellow faculty have asked about my seeking positions of leadership is “why do you want to do this”? I can’t write their tone of voice, so you will have to imagine their incredulousness mixed with suspicion. So, why do I wa...
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Cotton and Sustainability
I created this short presentation about cotton and sustainability to present to students in my courses that do not have a primarily textiles focus. I will be sharing this presentation, as I have for several years now, with students in the UT-Austin Int...
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Educating for Climate Change
I am part of a USDA funded grant team that has recently created a professional development series designed to help fashion educators get up to speed on climate change and learn how to educate for climate change in the fashion curriculum. Our new websit... (Link)
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