I'm a researcher, educator, curriculum designer, elearning developer, and above all a storyteller with a Ph.D. in Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication from UT Dallas. During my time in the ATEC program I conducted research at the intersection of educational technology and media and systemic racism in the K-12 system, publishing articles and creating digital learning tools both for my undergraduate students and to support my larger research agenda.

I am most interested in work that combines elements of research, education, and storytelling to create meaningful experiences and help people grow personally and professionally.

In my current role at Scale AI, I help train AI models on topics related to education and pedagogical theory. This has sharpened my understanding of AI and helps me leverage it in learning exerpiences and simulations that can benefit from dynamic interactions.

In my spare time, I rock climb, read, and watch films of all types. Feel free to check out my favorites on Storygraph and Letterboxd!

Selected Projects

2025
Classroom Management Simulation

This simulation built in Articulate Storyline actionizes some of the research I conducted while pursuing my PhD. Users have free-form discussions with four different students, discover the root causes of their behaviors, and work with those students to find solutions. Each student is programmed with a distinct personality and backstory using Google's Gemini Flash 2.0 AI, speaks using Amazon's text-to-speech application Polly, and comes to life through animation done using Vyond.

Storyline - Vyond - Gemini API - Amazon Polly API - Javascript

2023
A.I. Prompt Engineering Assignment

This is an assignment I co-created as a teaching assistant, and it served as the final project for the course Introduction to Technoculture at UT Dallas in the Fall of 2023. It requires students document their use of a large-language model as they iterate on prompts until the model produces an acceptable analysis essay covering the course's core concepts.

Chat GPT 4.0 - Blackboard LMS

2019
Classroom Technology Integration Professional Development

An online professional development course built on the Canvas LMS and used by Celina ISD in Texas to better prepare teachers to integrate technology into their classroom practices.

Canvas - Canva

Experience

2025-Present
Senior AI Evaluation Specialist – Education Domain (Contractor)

Scale AI

Developed PhD-level adversarial evaluation tasks that resist surface-level pattern matching by integrating subtle semantic distractors, contradictory logic, and nuanced concept masking while requiring LLMs to engage in abstract reasoning, synthesis, complex problem-solving, and conceptual mapping.

Engineered prompts that melded abstract critical and pedagogical theories and concrete learning scenarios with objectively verifiable, unique, and automatically gradable ground-truth final answers to ensure scalable, automated evaluation of AI reasoning across educational domains.

2020–2025
Teaching Associate

The University of Texas at Dallas

Incorporated students’ backgrounds, career and academic goals, and prior knowledge into instruction and curriculum design, integrating backward design and inclusive pedagogical principles to enhance learning outcomes.

Cultivated trusting relationships with diverse student populations through culturally responsive communication and active listening, resulting in a 25% increase in student participation rates.

Implemented an anonymous student feedback system, leading to curriculum adjustments and a perfect student course evaluation score.

Developed assignments that effectively incorporated artificial intelligence, large-language models, multimodal composition, and other new technologies and media to bridge the gap between students’ interests and skills and courses’ learning objectives.

Education

2020-2025
The University of Texas at Dallas

PhD in Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication

Dissertation Title: Education, Technology, and White Supremacy: The Maintenance of Structural Racism in the Post-Integration Era

Graduate Student Organizer – Public Interactives Research Lab

Created pilot introductory courses and major pathways for Public Interactives bachelor’s and master’s degrees.

Published articles critically analyzing educational technology in Race and Pedagogy Journal and Digital Culture and Education.