After twenty years in the classroom, I’m taking a sabbatical to speak my truth.

For years, I’ve explored the big questions that challenge science, history, ethics, and belief.

Now, I’m ready to come forward as an experiencer and help teachers transform their classrooms into spaces of real inquiry, where curiosity leads, research is deep, and no topic is off the table.

Since I was little, I’ve seen things that didn’t fit into the reality I was taught to trust. My lived experience never fully lined up with what science claimed was real. Over time, I learned to keep those things to myself, especially around people who might not understand.

Part of this work is breaking one of the oldest stigmas teachers face: the expectation to remain neutral, apolitical, and silent on important issues. I don’t believe silence serves our students. They deserve adults who are unafraid to speak honestly, ask difficult questions, and wrestle with the unknown.

In recent years, government hearings have confirmed the existence of non-human craft and “biologics”. That’s not conspiracy, it’s in the Congressional Record. Yet, the media often avoids it, and while mainstream sources stay silent, respected scientists at Harvard, Rice, and Stanford are starting to take notice. That silence should raise questions.

We need more researchers, educators, and thinkers to step up. For too long, the government has withheld information. If disclosure becomes public, it won’t just change what we know, it will change how we think about humanity. This shift will touch every part of society.

I’ve spent years wrestling with these questions, examining cases, studying history, listening to experiencers, and contemplating the spiritual and societal implications of what we’re learning. Meanwhile, in the classroom, I’ve guided kids through difficult conversations about racism, genocide, colonialism, and humanity’s place in the universe. I know how to hold space for fear, wonder, grief, and awe. Often, all at once.

Conversations about UAPs and non-human intelligence are still taboo. Even in the most open-minded spaces, bringing them up can lead to polite dismissal or quiet discomfort.

This is exactly why I’m speaking out, because silence only reinforces the stigma, and we can’t expand our understanding if we’re too afraid to ask the big questions.

I want to challenge how science and religion have acted as gatekeepers of truth, rejecting questions that don’t fit their frames. I’m not here to pick sides. I want to build a space where evidence, wonder, and intuition can sit together, where logic and mystery aren’t at odds.

If we’re truly entering a time when the foundations of our knowledge are shifting, we need places to process, ask, and feel. My goal isn’t to convince anyone of anything. It’s to make space for honest questions and stay rooted in our shared humanity while we do.