Alexandria, Virginia, United States
I’ve spent nearly 20 years in public K-12 education as a science teacher, instructional technology coach, and district STEM specialist, and that classroom-rooted perspective shapes everything I do. These days, I’m Head of Content and Creative at Kami, where I lead content strategy, sales enablement, and creative work across the Kami family of products, including Kami App, Kami Companion, and Book Creator. I care deeply about making technology work for every learner, and accessibility and UDL aren’t checkboxes for me; they’re lenses I bring to every project. I also speak at national conferences on creativity, accessibility, and instructional technology, and I write and create under my personal brand, FieldingNotes, where I explore the questions that don’t fit neatly into a job description. I’m an ISTE Certified Educator and Trainer, Google Innovator, Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert Fellow, Canvas Certified Educator, Adobe Creative Educator, and proud member of the Canva K-12 Advisory Council and the Book Creator Ambassador community. A few highlights I’m proud of: VSTE Coach of the Year and Woodbridge Senior High School Educator of the Year. If you’re working at the intersection of education, content, and technology, I’d love to connect.
Lead a team of six across brand, content, video, and visual design, driving a shift to async-first global collaboration with dedicated campaign manager and design lead roles embedded into every campaign. Built a marketing wiki with 20+ SOPs and workflows covering content, digital, and events functions -- creating a single source of truth for how the team plans, executes, and ships work. Leading end-to-end campaign strategy and execution for ISTE 2026, including 30 room and booth sessions, a parallel "Not at ISTE" digital campaign, and a new product launch -- the company's largest conference presence to date. Developing back-to-school campaign visual identity and managing concurrent campaign planning across multiple product lines and channels. Shipped a verbal identity system including tone-of-voice and technical writing guides, with an AI implementation layer built in Notion using prompt libraries and skill files for team-wide adoption; full company rollout planned for summer 2026. Established cross-functional alignment cadences with Product, Sales, CS, and TLCs -- including biweekly product marketing syncs and a weekly internal content communications rhythm. Driving channel, EDM, in-app messaging, and digital strategy across the full funnel, with persona mapping and a website migration underway.
Own strategy, planning, and delivery of scalable learning programs supporting educator onboarding, product adoption, and instructional impact across North America. Grew the Kami Certified Educator program to 700+ completions and surpassed 1,000 webinar registrants in the first half of 2026. Designed and deployed multimodal learning experiences including self-paced courses, live webinars, certification pathways, templates, and job aids. Led a two-week sales enablement sprint producing 30+ assets across Kami App, Kami Companion, and Book Creator; trained a go-to-market team of 50+ through ongoing weekly sessions. Initiated a content governance overhaul, auditing and updating the 50 most-visited templates toward WCAG compliance and repositioning the content library as a product-integrated instructional resource. Partner cross-functionally with Product, Marketing, Customer Success, and Community teams to identify learning needs, define outcomes, and deliver right-sized learning solutions. Establish learning frameworks, content templates, and quality standards to ensure consistency, accessibility, and clarity across programs.
Coaches educators through ISTE Certification and facilitates ISTE U courses, supporting proficiency across the ISTE Standards through practice-based professional learning.
-Crafts engaging content across digital platforms for educational communities, empowering teachers to foster inclusive and creative classrooms. This initiative not only enhances students' learning experiences but also catalyzed the launch of a successful personal consulting business in educational technology. -Spearheaded a campaign advocating for adopting digital accessibility tools, reaching over 10k educators across social media, conference presentations, and resource creation, resulting in increased tool adoption and enhanced learning outcomes. -Forged strategic partnerships with leading organizations and tech companies such as Adobe, EdgeGain, i2e, AppsEvents, ISTE, Instructure (Canvas LMS), and Renaissance Learning (Nearpod) leading to the successful execution of various educational initiatives to enhance accessibility, creativity, and Universal Design for Learning. These collaborations have positively impacted over 100+ educational institutions and thousands of educators. -Excelled in delivering over 100 keynote speeches, webinars, and conference presentations at esteemed venues like VSTE, ISTE, FETC, and SxSWEdu, reaching a diverse audience of educational stakeholders. With a focus on critical themes like accessibility, Universal Design for Learning (UDL), equity, and creativity, my presentations have led to a measurable increase in the adoption of inclusive educational technologies and methods. -Active contributor to renowned professional learning communities, including Adobe Creative Educator Innovators, ISTE Certified Educators, Microsoft Innovative Educator Experts, and Google Champions. Leveraged these platforms to share best practices, mentor peers, and contribute to thought leadership in the areas of accessibility, Universal Design for Learning (UDL), and educational equity, thereby enriching the collective knowledge and strategies of the community.
-Developed a comprehensive STEM proposal for a division of 90K students using advanced data analytics and identified critical improvement areas that significantly raised student engagement and teacher efficacy. -Spearheaded the design of a prototype STEM Center for elementary students and educators to have hands-on STEM experiences and integrated innovative technologies to augment hands-on learning experiences across the division, infusing digital literacy and computer science. -Supported 16 elementary STEAM teachers within a professional learning community and developed and delivered professional learning opportunities, emphasizing the integration of assistive technologies. -Co-organized the Prince William-Manassas Science and Engineering Fair, managing diverse tasks from technology platform coordination, to complex event logistics and collaborating with 60 schools, overseeing the participation of 500 students, judges, and volunteers. -Played a pivotal role in the development and data-driven refinement of a division-wide science curriculum in Canvas LMS and implemented the new curriculum and benchmark assessments across all middle schools, impacting over 10,000 students. -Actively participated in a district workgroup to formulate policy recommendations, guiding the strategic implementation of artificial intelligence technologies across various stakeholders within the district. This collaborative effort aimed to optimize the integration of AI in educational settings, ensuring its alignment with district goals and stakeholder needs.