About me

I am a digital literacy scholar and educator with a doctoral degree in Language and Literacy Education from the University of British Columbia. My research and teaching explore the dynamic intersections of creative and digital arts-based methodologies, futures literacies pedagogy, critical (post)digital literacies, and participatory inquiry into meaning-making in a digitally saturated world. I am committed to equitable, decolonizing, and relational approaches that critically engage with digital tools and technologies, uncovering their potential to catalyze transformative learning experiences, foster deeper understanding, and enable the emergence of new communicative practices.

Throughout my work, I investigate the intersection of digital and algorithmic literacies, the design of transformative online learning environments, and the cultivation of creative practices to explore what I and others theorize as futures literacies. These literacies encompass the diverse ways we explicitly and implicitly activate or inhibit futures in the present moment. By employing creative methods and a participatory, feminist approach to data and algorithms, I seek to bridge the gap between scholarship, computational hegemony, futures imagining, and pedagogical practice. My work fosters dynamic spaces where theory and practice converge, enabling transformative learning experiences and empowering learners to critically engage with and co-create more equitable and inclusive digital futures.

I continue to work on a variety of projects including research and pedagogical praxis with the PhoneMe platform for sharing multimodal place based poetry. Multiple papers are now associated with this research, and we are eager to continue inquiring into the platform as a meaningful digital place-based educational intervention. If you are interested, check out my poems – Home and Run – and consider joining our growing poetic community!

I am a core researcher of Systems Beings Lab an interdisciplinary research team, seeking to co-create and foster a systems approach to complexity, responding to research areas, such as living ecologies, AI, research design, integrative sciences, and educational systems, both within and beyond the university.

Teaching

Before pursuing my doctoral degree I was a secondary school teacher, working in the remote Indigenous community of Bella Bella, BC, and at the alternative school on the traditional territory of the Shishalh peoples on the Sunshine Coast, BC. My teaching practice continues to be informed by my work with youth outside of mainstream contexts, exploring creative technologies for sharing alternative stories of selves and futures in and for troubled times.

I currently teach in the Masters in Education Technology Program at the University of British Columbia.