I am a music educator, researcher, entrepreneur, and interdisciplinarian. I taught kindergarten through 8th grade general music and choir for 5 years with an emphasis on project based learning, multimedia performances, and collaboration with classroom teachers.
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Now I am finishing my PhD in music education at Arizona State University. During my time at ASU I have been able to focus on technologically mediated musical engagement and learning as the teacher of the Digital Hybrid Lab for four semesters. The Digital Hybrid Lab is a class for music education undergraduates that examines the intersection of music, technology, teaching, and learning through project based learning.
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My research interests include student centered learning, project based learning, critical pedagogy, narrative inquiry, popular music in the lives of adolescents, popular music in young adult literature, and technologically mediated musical engagement .
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I am also a the CEO of a grant winning start up. The company is called Groovebotics and we make programmable musical instrument robots to help kids learn basic principles of coding through creative musical play.