About
I'm a Learning Experience Designer thriving at the intersection of education, design, and technology.
My mission is to preserve the humanity of learning by combining cross-disciplinary approaches with evidence-based research to build rigorous, accessible experiences. Currently at Kaiser Permanente, I design scalable training and change management solutions while exploring the ethical integration of AI into modern work culture. My academic background spans degrees from the University of Toronto, Stanford, and USC, culminating in doctoral research on the existential challenges of modern instructional design. To bridge the gap between traditional models and contemporary digital realities, I leverage insights from diverse disciplines from game design to UI/UX to behavioral economics.
I want learners to spend less time on the mechanics of learning and more time on the substance of it. From working in K-12 classrooms to ed-tech integration in universities, and now a large healthcare organization, that's the sentence I keep coming back to. As the landscape of learning evolves however, achieving that only gets more and more complex. In a landscape where online learning has become a staple among adult learners, the rigid "grammar" of traditional instructional design is often at odds with the behaviors and motivations of navigating today's online spaces. The ADDIE model still offers some usefulness in organizing high-level design priorities, but isn't practical in isolation. To bridge this gap, I've found that designing rigorous and accessible learning requires me to leverage insights from diverse domains, from game design and UI/UX to digital marketing and behavioral economics. As well, modern technologies like big data and artificial intelligence have enabled flexible workflows that meet contemporary digital realities.
To that end, the work that interests me sits at the seams between diverse disciplines, from game design to UI/UX to behavioral economics, and navigating the messy reality of how adults actually navigate digital life.
These days I'm a Senior Learning Designer at Kaiser Permanente, working on scalable training solutions, organizational change, and the question of how generative AI can be folded into work culture without losing the human parts. Prior to KP, I worked in higher education--both in formal institutions where I was involved in systematic program development and process improvement, and in agencies working with diverse clients to design bespoke digital learning experiences.
My academic path started out in communication theory and human biology at the University of Toronto, then toward K-12 education with a teaching certification again from UofT, and then into the field of learning design & technology at Stanford University. Concurrently while working in the field, I completed my doctorate in Educational Leadership at the University of Southern California, where I studied what practical and existential challenges instructional designers actually wrestle with inside corporate environments.
Outside of my work in education, I make music as a mainstage EDM artist and as a hip-hop producer for other artists. Even then, I often like to find opportunities to share educational content! I'm also a competitive saber fencer and coach, and I play a ton of Dance Dance Revolution.