I am a scholar‑educator and professor of early childhood education, working at the intersections of feminist theory, postfoundational thought, and food pedagogies. My research is grounded in the belief that food is more than sustenance: it is relational, seasonal, symbolic, and a way of being in the world.

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I study how children, educators, and materials come into relation, and how learning emerges through the everyday textures of practice: making, tasting, listening, noticing, responding. With a deeply ethical and embodied orientation, I’m interested in what becomes possible when pedagogy resists quick fixes and instead stays with curiosity, complexity, and wonder. My work is also in dialogue with Indigenous scholarship and ways of knowing, with attention to relational accountability and ethical practice.

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My Italian heritage and my upbringing as a first‑generation Canadian in an Italian immigrant family, shape how I approach food as story, tradition, and shared life. I learned early that food is a language of care, a keeper of stories, and a way of being in relation with others and with place. In my research, I return to food as a pedagogical invitation, opening questions about attention, responsibility and more just ways of living together

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In the classroom, I support future educators to develop a sensitive “grammar” of practice by working with art, perception, and communication to strengthen how we see, listen, and respond. Whether shaping clay or crafting curriculum, I aim to cultivate learning that is attentive, livable, and world‑making.

 

I’m motivated by the question: what kinds of educational worlds do we make possible through the ways we gather, eat, and learn together?