I am a doctoral student at the IU School of Education, and I am working as part of Dr. Kylie Peppler’s Creativity Labs on interesting projects that bridge my personal and educational interests in participatory design and making. 

Besides making fun things like DIY documentation stations for makers to capture, explore and share their work, facilitating design workshops in makerspaces across the US (see Maker Ed Open Portfolio Project), and crafting squishy circuits with pre-schoolers, I like to think about participatory design and how engaging in this dialogical design practice may support learning.

I have had the pleasure to be part of the DML Commons steering committee, co-designing two units for the Open Course: one for design-based research and one for Professional Pathways.

I am excited to see the courses take off and am looking forward to making new connections and learning, sharing and collaborating with the DML Commons community in the weeks to come!