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San Francisco, CA, US

San Francisco, CA, US

Key accomplishments:✅ Expanded reach to 1.2 million educators, 88K U.S. schools, and 80% of Title 1 schools.✅ Attained an average Net Promoter Score (NPS) of 70.✅ Directed and responsible for education program goals, strategy, budget, and KPIs. Supervised a team of 5 direct reports, as well as external contractors and agencies.✅ Expanded programming.

San Francisco, CA, US

✅ Led the content team, instructional design, product priorities, and the impact of the flagship Digital Citizenship Curriculum. ✅ Supervised a team of 3 direct reports, as well as external contractors and agencies.✅ Managed a large-scale project to overhaul the Digital Citizenship Curriculum, resulting in a new curricular framework, 73 lessons, 33 videos.

San Francisco, CA, US

✅ Directed professional development content catalog and KPIs, including designing asynchronous courses, training materials, implementation guides, and webinars, training an average of 50K educators and 15K parents per year. ✅ Built an asynchronous online course in Teaching Digital Citizenship, with 2K completions per month.✅ Directed the build and launch.

San Francisco, CA, US

✅ Established inaugural Common Sense Ambassador Program, training 150 educators in digital leadership.✅ Oversaw community engagement strategy, launching Facebook group to grow to (current) 18K members, and edWeb group to (current) 33K members. ✅ Co-developed online professional development videos/courses with partners, reaching 15K educators per year.

San Francisco, CA, US

✅ Developed and managed professional development content and training materials for implementation managers. ✅ Oversaw conference strategy and submissions with 80% proposal acceptance rate.✅ Presenter at education and edtech conferences (ISTE, CUE, FETC, SXSWEdu).

San Francisco, CA, US

✅ Created the first award-winning K-12 Digital Literacy and Citizenship Curriculum and digital games, teaching students internet safety and responsibility. ✅ Honored with 4 awards for this program (i.e., Tech & Learning, eSchool News Readers’ Choice).✅ Managed a large-scale project with Apple Education and Metrodigi, creating 8 iBooks Textbooks for.

Collegeville, PA, US

✅ Taught undergraduate courses at the Media and Communication Studies Department at Ursinus College, including Media and Society, and a special course on Media and Children.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US

✅ Taught undergraduate public speaking courses, including developing the syllabus, assignments, grading, and advising students.

Chicago, IL, US

At the Media Education Lab at Temple University, I worked on projects focusing on media literacy education and outreach, including:✅ Multimedia/game development for My Pop Studio: Developed curriculum, managed focus groups, and facilitated pilot sites in formal and informal learning environments. My Pop Studio is the first-of-its-kind media literacy game.

Denver, CO, US

✅ Developed multimedia edutainment game for the Tobacco Education and Media (TEAM) grant to teach middle school students about the representation of smoking in movies. Implemented and pilot tested the game at middle schools in Denver, CO. Results: Students decreased their attitudes around seeing smoking as desirable behavior, and learned how smoking can be.

Denver, CO, US

✅ Taught Communication courses to nontraditional and working undergraduates, including Introduction to Communication Studies and Public Speaking. In the public speaking course, I approached the course with invitational rhetoric, a feminist method of public speaking and communication developed by scholar Dr. Sonja Foss.

Denver, CO, US

✅ Taught Communication courses to undergraduates, including Introduction to Communication Studies, Communication Theory, and Public Speaking. I developed curriculum, syllabi, lectures, and advised students.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Media And Communication

Master Of Arts - Ma, Speech Communication And Rhetoric

Bachelor'S Of Arts, Communication And Visual Arts