A summary of my teaching experience — within and before graduate school —  and an overview of research projects.
TEACHING

Online Teaching Assistant
  • CEP 807 / ED870, Proseminar in Educational Technology (Fall 2014 - Fall 2018)
  • CEP 813, Electronic Assessment for Teaching and Learning (Summers 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019)
  • CEP 815, Technology and Leadership (Summer 2015)
  • CEP 800, Learning in School and Other Settings (Fall 2014 - Spring 2015)

Face-to-face Teaching Assistant 
  • TE 150, Reflections on Learning (Fall 2016, Spring 2017)

Teacher and Scholarship Administrator, Kids Science Labs, Chicago (2012 - 2014)
  • Engaged children as lead teacher for kids aged 3 - 5 years old in our South Loop center by creating an environment of creative and exciting hands-on learning.
  • Designed new lessons as part of the curriculum team, incorporating kids' questions into thoughtfully constructed classes for a variety of science series.
  • Organized and administered the growing scholarship program, spreading access and awareness to families  financially unable to participate in classes.

​RESEARCH

GET City (Green Energy + Technology in the City: A makerspace at the Boys and Girls Club of Lansing) 2014 - present
  • Serve and learn as an adult mentor in a makerspace dedicated to equitable STEM learning 
  • Support youth in engineering green-energy solutions to community problems and engaging in critical ethnographic work through relationship building and developing curriculum to scaffold youth explorations and design work.
  • Manage and guide undergraduate mentors in developing relationships and working with youth.
  • Help collect data, analyze in accordance with grants from the National Science Foundation (#1712834 and #1421116). Responsible for information management, on-site data generation and collection, organization in group server.
  • Contribute to weekly lab meetings and research agendas on critical whiteness, youth participatory methodologies, and equity in STEM.
My dissertation was a partnership study with three, middle-school aged co-researchers who I have work with in the makerspace for 3 + years.

Together we explored how their funds of knowledge and Discourses influenced their making work, discussed what recommendations they would offer other makerspace educators, and co-created a making lesson.