Welcome

I am an Associate Professor in the Marsal Family School of Education at the University of Michigan.

As a literacy researcher and learning scientist, my scholarship reconceptualizes the role of media and technology as it comes to intersect with children’s and youths’ literacy learning and development. Building on a decade of field-based work, my scholarship traces expansive notions of social and discursive practice to introduce new frameworks and pedagogies for addressing the processes and consequences of how ingenuity is documented and interpreted in classrooms and schools more broadly.

Fueled by my experiences as a queer multi-ethnic first-generation college graduate and elementary educator teaching in urban multilingual schools, my purpose for devoting my life to this work is informed by longstanding commitments to educational equity, racial justice, the arts, and community activism. Leveraging young peoples’ differences as sights and signs for learning, my teaching and research focus on understanding and sustaining the heterogeneity of human sensemaking in the contexts of community inquiry and social change.

As core faculty in Educational Studies, Learning, Equity, and Problem Solving for the Common Good (LEAPS), and the Joint Program in English and Education, and an affiliate of the Digital Studies Institute and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, I teach undergraduate and graduate courses in literacy, inquiry methodologies, cultural studies, and the learning sciences.