About Me

I serve as a Sr. Instructional Designer for the Active Learning division of Cognella, a San Diego-based publishing company that publishes learning materials for higher education and professional learning. I work with faculty who are interested in authoring new eLearning content, collaborating to review student needs, course goals, and market research, together outlining what types of content and activities we will build to meet those needs.

Like many designers, I happened upon online learning. My high school had few advanced study courses, so I took two of the state’s first online AP courses. In college internships, there was a need for better asynchronous training materials. My first career jobs were in higher education training (event coordination for UC Santa Barbara’s Career Services and then admin support for the HR Training department). I found a gem of a graduate program that allowed me to teach solo in Writing and Literature, work with the curriculum committee as a TA advisor, and concurrently finish an advanced certificate in community college teaching, which was my first real experience designing and teaching face to face courses with an online component. Gratefully, I was accepted into an internship program for teaching at a local community college, which afforded my first experience with instruction in a fully online course. From there, I moved into publishing and working with instructors everywhere!

Outside of my work, (or, as life informs design, I should say: parallel to my work) I am a parent of school-aged kids, a continual learner (completing additional graduate work in Instructional Design and UX), a lover of fiction (recent reads: A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor, The House in the Cerulean Sea, A Psalm for the Wild-Built, The House of Broken Angels), and a Warriors fan.

I created this website as part of a course for Instructional Designers on connecting faculty with resources for teaching, but am looking forward to using it to connect with teachers and designers to learn as well.