My goal as a teacher is to support student interests and passions as they develop into life projects. My sense of projects is inspired by my queer Pentecostal research participants in Brazil who discussed their “projetos” in life with me. Rather than just a temporary endeavor, a projeto can be associated with an existential vision for one’s life. As a teacher, I work collaboratively with students in the classroom to connect learning with students’ emerging projetos. I foster writing and thinking skills that help them to ask deep questions about the social worlds they inhabit as they come to develop their own voices. To do this, my pedagogy centers multi-modal learning, writing workshops, student-chosen modes of expression, and semester-long student projects that I mentor through scaffolded assignments. This approach expands what students think is possible for them intellectually, professionally, and interpersonally. As a result, my students and mentees have presented coursework at the University of Illinois Undergraduate Research Symposium, published their writing, and used their research experience in graduate school admissions essays.