At the VU, my main project is coordinating the development and implementation of the Ethics and Diversity in Law learning track (Dutch: 'leerlijn'), which will run throughout the BA Law and BA Notary Law programmes. This track aims to help students develop more of an academic, critical, and reflective attitude towards the law, complementing the traditional basis of legal positivist education. Central to this are ethical reflection (normative evaluation in and of law) and diversity awareness (perspectives by and impact on various social groups).
At the Utrecht University, I also founded of the Class-Conscious Academics Network (CCAN), the first Dutch community by and for first-generation and working-class students and academics. The CCAN offers a platform for students and academics to meet each other, share experiences, support, network, and share knowledge through salons with topical talks.
Invitation to students: Being an academic from a working-class/first-gen background and queer, I have personal experience with having to find my own way in an unfamiliar and often mystifying academic world. If you would ever like someone to talk to about how your backgrounds or identities influence your experience of university, you are warmly invited to contact me for a casual chat over a cup of coffee/tea.
