It is a priority of mine to serve in a professional capacity as an educator at an institution of higher learning, producing knowledge that reflects the need for sociologists to approach researching social issues in a more restorative way and being an example and resource for students from marginalized backgrounds who do not see people who look like them in academic positions. I also strive to be reflexive of the knowledge being produced in sociology in an effort to further the discipline as a competent, inclusive institution of social change as a critical sociologist.

Experience

• I have a certificate in college teaching from Vanderbilt University’s Center for Teaching. As a Practice & Pedagogy Leader for the Center for Teaching for two years, I aided in training incoming graduate teaching assistants. This year, I served as a Certificate in College Teaching Facilitator for VU Center for Teaching. In this role, I led the center’s teaching seminar, an 8-week course for graduate students that explores educational theory and practice that promotes learning within a diverse classroom across varied classroom settings.

• I served as a teaching assistant for nine different undergraduate courses at Vanderbilt. These courses allowed me to become familiar with various kinds of class structures. From a Prison Life course, where I co-facilitated prison tours with students; a Sociology of the Family course, where I helped students analyze popular television and movie programs to illustrate social psychology theories in action; to an Environment, Health and Society course, where I’ve assisted students with data collection for environmental justice case studies, I have amassed an instructional skill set that I use in my own teaching to ensure engagement and learning.  

• In 2019, I taught an Urban Sociology course as an adjunct lecturer in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Trevecca Nazarene University. In Summer 2020, I taught a Social Psychology of Prejudice remote course in the Department of Sociology at Vanderbilt University. In Fall 2020, I taught a Social Problems remote course in the Sociology & Anthropology Department at Middle Tennessee State University. In spring 2021, I taught Medical Sociology course in the Sociology Department at Xavier University of Louisiana. This past fall, I taught Research Methods in Environmental Studies at Boston College. I am currently teaching Urban Sociology at Boston College.

Student Feedback

Below are examples of student feedback from course evaluations:

“Since the beginning I realized that Professor Satcher is extremely intentional with her teaching. She's passionate about that and I admire that. I have a huge respect for her. And I learned a lot of valuable content in this class. The content of this class is relevant for the world in which we live in, so Im glad she was the one teaching it.”

“Her willingness to listen to the students and take feedback way before the end of the semester. It really showed that she cared about how [I] felt about the class and the way we were being taught. She also really knows how to use class time to ensure we are learning.”

“The class discussions helped me tremendously to fully grasp what the articles that we read were about.”