Currently I work at Complexly where I’m the Editorial Director of Study Hall, a new educational YouTube project created in partnership with Arizona State University to help more people get to and succeed in college and find wonder in learning. Previously I worked on the educational YouTube channel  Crash Course that strives to inspire curiosity and reaches over 13 million subscribers. All that means I spend a lot of time brainstorming new projects, creating systems, and googling stuff like “are rainbows circles?” (they are), “at what temp do bananas grow and where are they from?” (20-35 degrees C and tropical Indomalaya), and “when were seances popular?” (popularity in English-speaking countries peaked in the late 19th century) — in that order.

Throughout my time at Complexly, my experience as a teacher and facilitator for Instructional Skills Workshops, and my many years of volunteer STEM-comm work facilitating and designing experiential lessons to empower women in STEM, I’ve designed, launched, and facilitated digital and in-person learning experiences for K-12, college, graduate, and lifelong learners. Examples include a lesson on teaching with technology, a simulation-esque session on the mathematics of disease modeling (created pre-pandemic), and guest lectures on the importance of STEM-comm.

After becoming a 2012 Boettcher Scholar I studied data analytics and warehousing, dynamical systems, and the microfinance industry in Ecuador at the University of Denver and the University of British Columbia where I received bachelor’s degrees in mathematics and economics, (DU), a master’s in data analytics (DU), and a master’s in mathematics (UBC). When I’m not thinking about math or education or writing or storytelling, I occasionally bust out the ol’ flute or the recorder I pilfered from the UBC grad lounge. I also enjoy reading, baking, taking old-people fitness classes, looking for whales, or sampling new cheeses. I also run a small Etsy shop where I make things I hope help people feel beautiful and colorful. I use she/her pronouns.