I investigate how artistic practices, cultural institutions, and interdisciplinary pedagogies shape knowledge production—and I have spent my career designing learning environments where that investigation becomes transformative for teachers, learners, and communities.

My teaching spans public school districts, universities, and museum contexts across the U.S. and internationally. I teach at Hunter College School of Education (CUNY) and have taught at Teachers College, Columbia University, and Marymount Manhattan College, working with preservice teachers and practicing educators alike. My courses engage students in critically reading multimodal texts, spaces, and cultural contexts while designing curriculum that integrates visual, spatial, and embodied literacies through interdisciplinary, culturally sustaining approaches.

Beyond the university, I lead professional development for educators, design arts-based curricula, and work as a curator, bringing these practices into dialogue across classrooms, galleries, and public spaces. My institutional partnerships include the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Guggenheim New York, the New York Public Library, and the New-York Historical Society, where I serve as a Women in the American Story (WAMS) Ambassador. My work extends internationally through a Fulbright Specialist residency at the University of Lomé, Togo, and sustained collaborations across West Africa and beyond.

I hold an Ed.D. in Curriculum and Teaching from Teachers College, Columbia University, where my dissertation received three 2026 AERA Outstanding Dissertation Awards, alongside degrees from New York University, the University of Southern California, and The City College of New York.

Learning environments are constructed. When art is positioned as a method of knowing rather than a subject to be known, new forms of engagement, understanding, and possibility become available to everyone in the room.