Teaching

Experience

Instructor of record at the University of Maryland

Introduction to Environmental Politics
Undergraduate, 2025

Lecturer at the Graduate School of the National Police, Colombia

Public Policy
Graduated Students, 2020 and 2021
Syllabus and slides

Teaching assistant at Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia

Solutions to the problem of crime
Masters, 2019
Aproximaciones Experimentales y Cuasi-Experimentales a la Seguridad y Justicia
Undergraduate and masters, 2019
Introducción a Asuntos Públicos Globales
Undergraduate, 2018

Student Evaluations

As instructor of record, I received agreement ratings exceeding 90% across multiple evaluated categories, including real-world application, inclusivity, building on prior knowledge, confidence in students’ potential, and care for student learning. More than 90% of students also indicated they would recommend me as an instructor for the course.

When asked, “What about the course and/or instruction most enhanced your learning?” students offered comments such as:

“he did a great job of keeping us all engaged, keeping the content and pacing on track, and sharing his passion while giving us good feedback and meaningful assignments and presentations”

“What was engaging about the course was the professor and how he connected the different things we were learning about overall making a fun and inclusive learning environment”

“Instructor was very knowable and passionate about the course material. remembering and using what was said or written by students in class or in assignments in class helped engage students in the class making the lecture more like a discussion”

“I appreciated how my instructor connected the issues we were learning about to international issues and scenarios specific to his home country. This offered an interesting and insightful perspective on the course material.”

“I think that the work was relevant to what we were learning and simultaneously connected information to the real world.”

“The connection to real–world environmental events that took place in the near past or were currently unfolding as class was being held.”