I am an artist, designer, educator, and PhD student at NYU Steinhardt studying Educational Communication and Technology. My research interests are very interdisciplinary, living at the intersection of art, design, computing, education, psychology, and critical studies. I’m curious about the cognitive and affective dimensions of creative computing tools, media, and praxes, and what implications these dimensions have on my quest to queer computing education and technological identity through design.
To that end, I aim to take a design-based and participatory approach to my work, co-creating research projects and tools with community members and studying how identity and creative practice are affected by using them. With the help of youth, educators, artists, and queer folks, my dissertation is focused on the design and study of self-expression through physical computing.
My background is in Interdisciplinary Art & Media Studies and Human-Computer Interaction. Beyond my studies at NYU, I work as an educator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.