My mission is to design open-ended learning experiences that build from what communities already know — not what institutions assume they need — and take seriously whose knowledge gets counted and whose gets erased.
There are two things I've never been able to stop doing: designing and teaching. When I was working in editorial and marketing design, I found my way into teaching through adult education. When I was teaching fifth grade and developing curriculum, I designed my students' learning environment: my classroom, learning stations, worksheets, writing organizers, infographics, process charts, yearbook, etc. The farm needed marketing material and countless organizational charts. My children's school got a redesigned website and new event marketing collateral. The church on the corner needed a digital newsletter and a webmaven. My dad's square dancing association is getting a rebrand whether they like it or not. I work with Adobe CS and most WYSIWYGs, follow brand guidelines; and meet deadlines. I live in the Adirondacks, work remotely, and I'm available.
EDUCATION
​2004
Washington, DC
M.A.T. Museum Education, George Washington University
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Awarded tuition fellowship from Graduate School of Education & Human Development
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Coursework: educational theory, program evaluation, curriculum design, learning assessment
1996
Hanover, NH
B.A. Anthropology, Dartmouth College
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Focus on Mesoamerican archaeology.
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Archaeological fieldwork in Belize and Central America.
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Assistant Editor in Chief of an award-winning yearbook, later serving as Photo Editor for two years.
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
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I hope to help bring forth a world where institutions learn as much as they teach — where the measure of progress is not the spread of a single way of knowing, but the depth of understanding between all of them.