Consultant, STEM Education
I situate my work—consulting, research, teaching—within the intersection of discovery learning, human connection, and argumentation. I believe that recovery and education are worlds that are welcoming, safe, rigorous, transformative, and bare sharp teeth. No one passes through either without gaining wounds and scars. And I honor those wounds, from there our greatest gifts emerge.
My journey began on the coast of County Claire where cold waves splash against granite stones from which flowers boom directly. It continued through my birth on the dusty flatlands of West Texas, where the wind never stops blowing.
Through Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Mathematics, I learned the value of precision and the difference between a proof and a litany of true statements. Later, I shifted my focus from numbers to acoustics, and then to words. For my Ph.D. in STEM education, I studied team communication in technical design environments: the shared understanding of complex ideas through artifacts; the value of implicit knowledge and the explication thereof.
Currently, I am serving as consultant to the pop-up institute as a de facto STEM Education representative. I am chair of the Prevention and Wellness committee, and together we are preparing recommendations for the UT Undergraduate School regarding the successful infusion of such practices into the UT school culture.
Recently, I have consulted for The Educational Advancement Foundation, Acton Academy, Lamar University, University High School, Boy Scouts of America, and I started my own nonprofit company, Skills Afield.