Every student and family deserves a school that is committed to providing an inclusive, rigorous, and engaging environment. I work to provide this experience by realizing our mission to use the city of Charlotte as our largest, most diverse classroom. We seek to partner with our community of nonprofits, businesses, entrepreneurs, and corporations to enhance the learning of students. We want to partner with like-minded folks to give our students dynamic field trips, site visits, job shadows, internships, and guest speakers. I also spearhead our annual Innovation Fund that provides us with unrestricted funding to pursue the things that makes Lab unique and special. We are always seeking boosters and sponsors to help us realize The Lab Way.In education, doing what's best for students is rarely cheap and rarely easy, but it's always worthwhile. Join us through partnership at Charlotte Lab School.

I am passionate about using the community as a classroom. I designed, implemented, and support our Lab EXPLORE program which helps students identify their career and college interests and further explore them through challenge-based learning (Quest), internships, mentorships, special projects, job shadows, apprenticeships, and MORE!We are always looking for more organizations to partner with us and our students. Whether you're local, across the country, or across the world - we want to partner with you!

Taught a project-based curriculum to explore US, NC, and local history and social studies. Wrote and mapped the curriculum for 6th-8th social studies in the school. Served as department chair for duration of time as classroom teacher.

Lead Teacher for the 7th & 8th grades focussing on language arts and social studies. Integrating English and language arts curriculum using African, Asian, and Middle Eastern studies (7th) and US, NC and local history (8th) as a vehicle to drive content.Teacher leader managing Practicum program connecting all 8th grade students to community-based service-learning projects with local organizations.

Community-based health work. Primary focus on malaria prevention, HIV/AIDS & reproductive health, food security & nutrition and childhood immunizations. Work closely with community/local partners to find sustainable and scalable solutions to their problems.

The NC State Health Plan is the major provider of health insurance for state employees and teachers. I worked in the department of Integrated Health Management and focus on worksite wellness initiatives. We worked to shift the paradigm from treatment of disease to prevention and wellness with over 76,000 state employees.