A Bit About Me 

I have committed my career to education through both teaching and research.

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Originally trained as a history teacher, I served as a Teach for America corps member at an alternative accelerated high school program in Camden, NJ and as a seventh-grade history teacher at Roxbury Preparatory Charter School. While teaching I carried out two action research projects examining the impact of culturally relevant pedagogy on student engagement and the integration of Socratic Seminars in a middle school history curriculum. During my master’s program I worked as a research assistant on a research-practice partnership and investigated how adolescents perceive natural mentors supporting their ethnic-racial identity development. Before beginning my doctoral degree, I was a project manager and quantitative analyst for Eduventures, a research and advisory branch of NRCCUA/ACT. 

 

During my doctoral program at Harvard University, I have worked as a research assistant in the Adolescent Ethnic-Racial Identity Development lab under the mentorship and leadership of Dr. Adriana Umaña-Taylor, supporting multiple longitudinal mixed-methods projects. I supported the development and facilitation of the Equipping Educators for Equity through Ethnic-Racial Identity (E4) professional development program, as well as assisted with data collection, cleaning, and analysis for related research projects. I also assisted with the development of and served as program manager of the Identity Project Fellowship, which recruited, selected, and trained graduate students on culturally sustaining pedagogy, observation data collection, and teacher support during the academic year of 2022-2023.

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I currently live in Massachusetts with my spouse, three kids (including fraternal twins), and cat Oreo.