About me

I am an enthusiast of Equitable learning Design that engenders creativity, justice, and holistic growth.

I am passionate about advancing innovative and engaging initiatives that progress equitable and inclusive connections and outcomes in higher education, nonprofits, and business.

In my current work, I help advance a portfolio of university-wide experimental academic courses at Georgetown's Red House, an educational research and design unit leading values-driven learning design centered on high-impact practices by flexing time, space, costs, and by applying the most effective capacities of emerging digital tools.

My career impact in higher education, public service, and community engagements have advanced global academic programs, strategic partnerships, research collaborations, service-learning, community connections, and instructional design support of on-campus, virtual, and hybrid learning environments.

I am a graduate of the Masters of Arts in Learning Design and Technology at Georgetown University’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. I also earned a graduate certificate in nonprofit executive management at the McCourt School of Public Policy. I earned my BA in Public Affairs at Trinity Washington University. Much of my graduate research and studies have focused on embodied cognition, creativity, and culturally sustaining asset-based anti-racist approaches to learning design.

My journey as a mother, scholar, academic manager, and learning designer has also been inspired by Dr. Maria Montessori’s philosophy in the need to create learning spaces that afford freedom within a structure to foster agency and intrinsic motivation. My lived experience as an immigrant and the resiliency required in early years has also propelled a passion to help advance more transparent, trauma-informed, and equitable ecosystems that foster agency and healing for all learners. Creating spaces for co-constructed learning that fosters liberation and holistic growth has been a key goal of my professional practice.

My greatest joys and inspirations are my children.