He specializes in English Language Arts education and serves as an educational consultant for the Image Project, an NGO that works to empower Maasai women and girls in Tanzania. He began his teaching career in 1991 as a small-town English teacher in Slinger, Wisconsin. Since then, he has taught secondary and university level English and English education in Milwaukee, Morocco, and New York City. His areas of scholarly interest and writing include cross-cultural language and literacy practices (specifically in Morocco and Tanzania); critical and postcolonial forms of ethnography; and, most recently, the school to prison pipeline.