A IMG_2146.JPGformer secondary school literature and digital literacy teacher, my research critically examines the nexus of literacy, technological change, and social justice for marginalized students in two interconnected domains: classroom and community-level ethnographic participatory research, and comparative international/neoliberal discourse and policy analysis. I examine and seek to optimize the uptake of digital media in diverse classroom and community ecologies, taking into account the politics of technology and its place within broader material realities of racialization, schooling, and neoliberal discourses of education reform. Primarily I do this through ethnographic design work, but also in pioneering critical digital discourse analysis and participatory methods. I am committed to harnessing technology for positive and collaborative social transformation, especially in collaborating with marginalized communities. I joined UCSC after five years with Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University and two years at Arizona State’s Center for Games and Impact. 

I am committed to harnessing technology for positive and collaborative social transformation, especially in collaborating with marginalized communities.