​Welcome to my tourism & Hospitality teaching portfolio!

Allow me to take you into my world of teaching in the Tourism & Hospitality programs at Humber Polytechnic, Toronto, Canada. The following pages showcase my passion for travel, for teaching, and for research.  They demonstrate where I am currently, what's in store in the near future, and what I hope to accomplish in the long run.  It is my sincere hope that you enjoy the read!

All photos are mine unless otherwise specified, and photo consent forms were signed by all students who appear in any of the photographs.

My Personal Land Acknowledgement

I was born and raised in Germany during the Cold War and the post-Holocaust Era that impacted my formative years. Throughout high school, starting in grade 7, one course of each academic year was dedicated to disseminating the Holocaust as part of the reconciliation process by the German state to the Jewish people. I was a child and youth then. 
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Fast forward to 2021, when Canada collectively woke up to its ugly reality as graves were found at a former Residential School property in Kamloops, British Columbia. I took a course through the First Nations University in Saskatchewan shortly thereafter and learned that Hitler used the Canadian Indian Act as a blueprint for his Jewish law, and the residential school system as the model for his labour and later concentration camps. I realized then and there that I am in the midst of another reconciliation process, this time as an educated adult, mother, well-connected tourism professional, and college professor teaching tourism.

As an immigrant from a privileged country, Canada has offered opportunities I would not have had back home. I was welcomed here and given citizenship by the colonial government without any particular say by Indigenous representatives. I made my home here and raised my family. As an experienced tourism professional, post-secondary educator, and doctoral student, with a vast network of peers, mentors, and students, I am keenly aware of my responsibility to learn and participate in the discourse. I am committed to addressing the ongoing colonialism and genocide, and contributing to decolonization and truth and reconciliation through my work and being, in the hopes that it will inspire you to spin the narrative forward on your own journeys.