I am a PhD Candidate in Learning, Literacies, and Technologies at Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, Arizona State University. I work at Center for Science and the Imagination and I will be defending my dissertation by May 2021. My work is centered around studying learners engagement and designing learning environments with tools like technologies, games, and hands-on artifacts. I am a Fulbright Scholar, a fellow of the Interdisciplinary Enrichment Fellowship, and a fellow of Spirit of Service at ASU. I earned my master's degree in Educational Technology at ASU in 2017. During my graduate studies, my work has been supported by two NSF research grants, Fulbright scholarship, and ASU merit-based grants. I also received three ASU outstanding awards for my research in learning sciences and educational technology: Outstanding Research Award (2019), Dissertation Research Award (2020), and Doctoral Research Mini-Grant (2020).

In my interdisciplinary work, I focus on the intersection of learning sciences, technologies and digital media, design-based methods, and critical STEM (ethics, equity, and social-political-historical dimensions of STEM). I draw on multiple paradigms in learning theory and methodologies to: (1) understand ways to design equity-oriented learning environments that help learners, educators, and researchers engage in socio-political dimensions of STEM and (2) design learning environments mediated by technology and digital media to support interactive engagement and participation of learners, educators, and other stakeholders. In my work, I use mixed methods design-based approaches to design, implement, and understand learners behavior as they interact with artifacts (e.g., ways artifacts like technology, digital media, hands-on activities can or can not mediate learning across settings). A second focus is examining participation and engagement in learning activities through diverse lenses (e.g., ways power dynamics manifest in environments and shape learners and educators engagement in these spaces; interactive and collaborative learning). A third focus is building and strengthening research-practice partnerships with organizations through participatory and co-design methods.