I am a high school English, social science, and environmental leadership teacher at Terra Linda High School, a public school just north of the Golden Gate Bridge.

I am a current Teach Plus Policy Fellow, as well as a former member of the National Humanities Center's Teacher Advisory Council and a former Fulbright Distinguished Awards in Teaching award recipient to Finland, where I studied how schools can help reinforce and reproduce inclusive civic identity and practices.

Currently, I am a doctoral student in the University of San Francisco's International and Multicultural Education program, with an emphasis on Human Rights Education. My research aims to develop a mechanism for evaluating school performance that focuses on human rights and emphasizes the centrality of marginalized communities in both the evaluation and program improvement process.

In the 2022-2023 school year, I will serve as a Fulbright Roving Scholar in American Studies to Norway. There, I will lead workshops on topics like human rights and social justice in education, American politics, and popular culture. Since I approach education as a formation of civic identity, I will look to draw parallels between Norwegian and American context with the express intent to identify positive futures. Ultimately, I hope to build pedagogical, social, and cultural bridges between schooling and the United States.