The TRAC Program

Group of teenage students and adults posing in a classroom in front of a TV screen showing a fireplace scene, with whiteboard and wall art around.

This is me with my amazing class of 15 students and our faculty advisor, Justin Greenlee.

The Technology Research Art and Communication program is a peer tutoring fellowship centered around student agency, interdisciplinary writing, and mindfulness.

The program has around 80 fellows each year, and I earned the privilege to teach the four credit introductory course “TRAC 100: Writing Fellows Seminar” to our newest class of fellows! In the spring semester I will be co-teaching the elective secondary “TRAC 110: The Writing Process.”

A man giving a presentation at a Trac100 Symposium at Lehigh University, standing behind a podium with a sign reading 'Lehigh University,' in front of two large screens displaying a slide about Trac100.

Mindfulness is a core principle of the TRAC program, and I believe that any and all professional settings can benefit from the practice of mindfulness. On the right is some of our writing fellows at the Blue Cliff Monastery in upstate New York. We visit as a program once each year to speak with the monks, and attend ceremonies.

Group of ten young adults posing outdoors in front of a decorative wooden arch with a circular sign that reads "become a changemaker." They are standing on a stone pathway with trees and grass in the background on a sunny day.

This is me at our end of year research presentations, the TRAC 100 Symposium. This is the capstone of the TRAC 100 seminar and an important reflection of the research being done by our fellows. The research question we decided on as a class was “who decided what is worth learning?”.