ABOUT ME

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I am an Assistant Professor at Utah State University in the Instructional Technologies and Learning Sciences program. I completed my MA and PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the Digital Environment for Learning, Teaching, and Agency program, and my BFA in Graphic Design from Iowa State University. Previously, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California Irvine in the School of Education and Carnegie Mellon in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute. 

In my research I work with communities to design learning environments to accomplish their unique learning goals. My work makes direct impacts to the communities I work with, by designing and implementing learning environments that attend to their goals, while considering contextual factors to ensure designs are effective and sustainable. Across my work I have three research strands: (1) understanding design processes to work with community partners, (2) creating learning environments that attend to needs of communities, and (3) evaluating learning happening in those environments.

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