Obtaining a Master's in Education with a concentration on Learning & Instruction supports my ongoing growth as a program and activity designer, professional development lead, and cultivator of institutional partnerships. I have spent the last many years refining my personal pedagogy, and this program represents my pursuit to develop it further and situate it within a vast field of educational scholarship and practice, framework and perspective. I believe that at its best, education can offer learners opportunities for healing and transformation in addition to new skills, and that connections to identity, community, and history are superpowers for these processes.

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Of the additions I hope to integrate into my career is an empowerment to my research capacities. There are a bounty of exciting ideas and emergent practices flowing from the world of afterschool and informal learning, as well as in consideration of the social forces advancing intersectionality and intergenerationality, that I intend to contribute to and shed light on. I've already taken a first step in conjuring a body of work around these topics, and wish to build on them to bring to conferences, collaborations, publications, and relationships. Research and data often power policy, too, and engaging with these skills has potential for career milestones even much later on.

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My more immediate goal is to continue to create and support the proliferation of afterschool programs and to rethink our notion of what is possible within them so that they serve a variety of public goods and keep people and communities connected in meaningful ways. 

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