About Trisha

Trisha is a candidate for a Master of Education in Art and Art Education, concentrating in Creative Technology, at Teachers College, Columbia University. She received her Bachelor’s of Arts degree in Psychology from Spelman College, in the Spring of 2016. Trisha has researched the role of stress, and where art and education intersect. She is passionate about the affordances of hands-on experiences in understanding, transferring, and integrating multiple subjects.

Currently, Trisha is a Zankel Fellow for the Creative Technology After School Program, which she developed and designed with her co-fellow Avery Forbes. In the past, Trisha has used her knowledge of maker labs and art to facilitate workshops for adolescents to develop programs that revolve around making, creative technologies, and the relationship between inquiry-based projects and career development. Trisha would like to develop her area of research to include the ways humans use their knowledge to share and to educate, using art and design to enhance interactive experiences. She enjoys and has skills with a variety of art mediums such as sculpture, ceramics, painting, physical computing, processing, and design.

Over the years, she has expanded her desire to use multiple art forms to communicate with her audience in order to spread knowledge on holistic health and meaningful data collection. Her main focus is targeting and designing for alternative learning styles, designing engaging curriculums using creative technology, advancing social justice with art, promoting positive self-efficacy and healthy prosocial behavior amongst adolescents and adults through curriculum and art engagement.