Holona Ochs

Nominated by:
Eric Nocito

Comments from nominator:
Dr. Ochs goes above and beyond to make sure her students are understanding the material and be engaged. She offers concrete advice on all assignments. More professors need to be like Dr. Ochs!

Mentor comments:
Mentorship is a collaborative process of listening and building mutually beneficial and trusting professional relationships centered on learning, compassion, and kindness. Mentoring is meaningful to me because over time those relationships yield tremendous wisdom and opportunities to improve our collective quality of life.
Hearing about the personal and professional successes of mentees and colleagues is incredibly rewarding to me. The knowledge I share with students is amplified by them.
Take something as easy as using people-first language. One way I instill humanistic critical reflection on self and society is by insisting on small changes like saying "people living in poverty" rather than "the poor." When this is echoed back by people I've mentored when they are interviewed or publish, I can see the (sometimes very) slow shift away from degenerative discourses in politics.