Visual artist | Learning scientist | STEAM educator

“Remember to imagine and craft the worlds you cannot live without, just as you dismantle the ones you cannot live within.”- Ruha Benjamin

I have always considered myself a storyteller, and since I started creating comics about my daily life as a Black girl in high school, I’ve been drawn to the power of storytelling in shaping individual and societal norms, values, and institutions. Throughout my professional career, I have used teaching, research, and visual arts (specifically comic art, graphic illustration, and design) as vehicles for challenging and re-envisioning dominant yet dehumanizing imaginations surrounding Black girl- and womanhood, education, and technology. As a learning scientist, I design and implement learning experiences that engage Black girls, educators, and other minoritized youth in the use of transdisciplinary technologies, as well as study how these technologies support learners’ identity authorship, community building, creative expression, and speculative literacy and design practices.  

As a science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics (STEAM) educator, I’ve taught 8th grade physical science and worked as a program coordinator for the girls-centered STEM education nonprofit, Techbridge Girls. In 2023, I earned a PhD in Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education from the Graduate School of Education at University of Pennsylvania. In 2025, I completed a two-year Provost Postdoctoral Fellowship at NYU’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, and in the fall of 2025, I will be starting a new position as Assistant Professor of Black Feminisms, Genders, and Sexualities in Michigan State University’s Department of African American and African Studies.