About Me

Also known as “Laserchick”, I am a Blaxican American and Southern California native. I began my education in Community College and hold degrees in Physical Sciences (A.S.), Chemical Engineering (B.S.), and Chemical and Material Physics (M.S., Ph.D.). My Ph.D. and Postdoctoral research focus was in the development of very fast laser systems (femtosecond and attosecond) to study single molecules vibrating, electrons traveling across the surface of metals, and the fluorescence of semiconducting Quantum Dots.

During my postdoc, I realized that my real passion was science communication and education, and I have since held positions as a science curriculum specialist with Amplify Science, a professor of Laser and Photonics Technology at Irvine Valley College, and am now the Senior Physics Educator in the Teacher Institute at the Exploratorium in San Francisco. My current work is focused on providing support and professional development to middle and high school science teachers to help them teach through inquiry.

I am also a founding board member and Mentorship Advisor of the Council for the Advancement of Black Engineers (CABE), a non-profit organization whose mission is to increase the number of culturally responsible Black Engineers with PhD’s, post-doctoral training and professional engineering registrations.