I’m a literacy consultant, curriculum designer, and academic writing coach based in New York. I received my doctorate in Curriculum and Teaching from Teachers College, Columbia University where I studied multimodal literacy, sociocultural and critical perspectives on literacy, and poststructural feminist approaches to curriculum and pedagogy.

And I teach.

I currently teach courses in literacy and the social foundations of education at CUNY and in professional writing at New York University. Previously, I was an adjunct professor at Teachers College, Columbia University; Towson University; and San Jose State University.

And I write.

My writing about curriculum, teaching, and literacy has appeared in Education Week, HuffPost, the Journal for Multicultural Education, and on Heinemann’s blog, and I’ve presented my scholarly work at conferences of the International Literacy Association, Literacy Research Association, and American Educational Studies Association. I’ve recently finished work on Pop Culture Literacies, a book about how young people understand themselves and the world through their engagement with pop culture (forthcoming April 2025).

And I…

When I’m not teaching, designing curriculum, reviewing literacy programs, or writing about the literacy issues that keep me up at night, I can be found aggressively monitoring—and preparing to claim—the good seat at my favorite local coffee shop, reading novels very slowly, pontificating about the so-called golden age of television, and secretly writing poetry.