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Who am I

Resident Word Nerd

Tabitha Messmore, EdD

I am currently an independent scholar-educator, editor, and writing coach. I'm a Doctor of Education (Interprofessional Leadership) and the Managing Editor of the Journal of Urban Learning, Teaching, and Research.

I'm a mother, a voracious reader, deep thinker, knitter, city-walker, music lover, traveler, soccer fan, and member of the LGBTQ+ community.

I've been an entrepreneur, a marketer, a writing instructor, a retail manager, a legal writing consultant, and proofreader for a major publishing house, to name a few jobs I've done.

In addition to my doctorate, I have degrees in English (writing, linguistics, and pedagogy), Marketing, Entrepreneurship. 

My academic/reading interests include:

  • grammatical structures and functions in writing
  • nonstandard English varieties
  • philosophy
  • intersectional feminism
  • antiracism, decolonization
  • social foundations of education
  • writing pedagogy
  • leadership

 

My Core Values

I live and work by these

People First

It's more important to me to create relationships than just content.

Process Next

The learning is in the journey, not just getting to the destination.

Interdisciplinarity

Good information & teachers are everywhere; I learn from and reference many spaces.

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academic me

My Dissertation

Through the activity of "writing as inquiry," I have an even better understanding of writing as an act of vulnerability. And that supporting people through that act is what I do.
 
“Teaching in Thresholds: Philosophical Reflections of a Nomadic Post-Critical Educator in a Precarious World"

My dissertation engages with ways of looking educationally at my own practice as a non-traditional, nomadic educator in a precarious professional disposition. It integrates the skills obtained in my life and career with the scholarly knowledge from my doctoral journey to engage with a unique problem of practice — developing my professional ethos as an educator.