I build Communities of Practice that make scholarship sustainable for the people doing it.
Assistant Director of Instructional Innovation and Project Management at UNT Health Fort Worth — empowering instructional designers and advancing the scholarship of teaching and learning.
Signature contributions
Communities of Practice for Health Sciences Education
I build Communities of Practice that turn teaching into scholarship.
Five interconnected CoPs engaging 150+ faculty at UNT Health — two annual Unconferences, a POD Network–funded study, and a statewide award.
Explore → 02Project Management for Instructional Designers
I make the invisible work of instructional designers visible.
A decade of cross-institutional collaboration through ID2ID, OLC, UPCEA, and the POD Network — with templates openly shared and reused across the field.
Explore → 03Peer Mentoring & Scholarly Infrastructure
I co-design the structures that support designers across career stages.
ID2ID Advisory Committee and co-author of a forthcoming Routledge chapter on the program's growth into an international network.
Explore →Featured projects
See all six →The SoTL Collective at UNT Health
Five interconnected Communities of Practice engaging 150+ faculty and 20+ active SoTL projects — a hub-and-spoke model that sustains scholarship without adding to faculty workload. Read →
ID2ID Peer Mentoring for Instructional Designers
Advisory Committee work, multi-cohort mentoring, and co-authorship of the forthcoming Routledge chapter documenting the program. Read →
PM for Instructional Designers
A decade of OLC panels, ID2ID mentoring, and the HigherID Podcast (Ep 13, most-listened of its season) — shared vocabulary and templates for ID project leadership. Read →
Care for the people doing the work is part of the work.
Scholar-practitioner, first-generation college student, immigrant scholar, and working parent — perspectives that shape why I build Communities of Practice rather than one-off workshops.
What guides my work →