TC Affiliations:
Faculty Expertise:
- Administration (K-12)
- Art Education
- Arts
- Community Colleges
- Curriculum
- Digital Innovation
- Elementary Education
- Higher Education
- Immigrant Education
- International Education
- Leadership
- Literacy
- Race and Ethnicity
- Reading and Writing
- Science Education
- Teacher Education
- The Brain and Cognition
- University-Public School Partnerships
- Urban Schools
Educational Background
Columbia University, New York, NY
- Ed.D., Adult Learning and Leadership
- M.S., Negotiation and Conflict Resolution (IP)
- M.A., Teaching of English
Bank Street Graduate School of Education, New York, NY
- M.S.Ed., Leadership for Educational Change
Goddard College, Plainfield, VT
- M.F.A., Creative Writing, Specialization in Narrative Development
Hunter College, New York, NY
- B.A., English & Psychology
Certificates and Certifications
Brown University, Providence, RI
- Leadership and Performance Coaching Certification (LPCC)
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
- Executive Certificate in Social Innovation Design (XSD)
Global Center for Executive Leadership, Geneva, CH
- Executive Certificate in Humanitarianism, Emergency Management, and Conflict Resolution (XHEC)
- Executive Certificate in Social Impact, Transformation, and Sustainability (XSITS)
- Executive Certificate in Learning Architecture and Strategic Leadership (XLASL)
Scholarly Interests
Embodied Learning and Social Cognitive Theory, Efficacious Sources and Appraisals, Somatic Learning and Social Justice, Transformative Learning, Social Psychology, Criminology and Desistance, Critical Pedagogies, Social Mobility, Intersectionality and Identity, Sustainability and Urban Renewal, Environmentalism, Systemic Resilience and Sustainable Justice, Agentic and Social Circuitry, Civic Practice and Abolitionist Practices, Variable Training and Imagined Outcomes, Culturally Responsive Pedagogy and Socio-Cultural Cognition, Education and Social Trauma, Leadership and Organizational Development, Pedagogical Continuum and Constrained Choice, Pedagogical Coaching, Social Art Response Theory, Curriculum and Program Design, K-12 and Community Education, Literature as Governance, Constrained Choice and Social Architecture, Authentic Learning, Inequity and Carceral Sociology, Decolonization, Multicultural American Literatures, Identity Learning and Reformation.