Career educator, Trainer, Subject Matter Expert
Adult Learning
Professional Development
Storytelling
Advocacy
Leadership
Fostering growth and building community through participatory approaches, collaborative learning and reflective practice.
Authentic Voices. Stronger Communities.
Capacity building, technical assistance, and equity centered practice.
Roles with Elevation Educational Consulting Group and Creative Narrations:
Trainer, Coach, Professional Development, Technical Assistance
StoryArts Program Director - curate and produce public storytelling events in collaboration with community partners
“Invasion, Ignition, Restoration through Art, Education, Science” - a grant-funded project to promote public awareness around the spread of invasive plant species in the Sonoran Desert region.
A fruitful collaboration between StoryArts, Inc/Odyssey, University of Arizona, and the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum.
It was my honor to be curator/producer of this storytelling show.🌵💚 Click on the imgage to the left for a link to the podcast and the link below for more information about the entire project.
https://air.arizona.edu/projects/science-art-and-ecology-sonoran-desert-fires
Stories for Change - ARPA funded project - community multimedia storytelling and resources for educators
AZ TESOL 2024 Featured Speaker - Digital Storytelling and Participatory Multimedia for the Literacies
"Belonging" - a collaboration between Odyssey storytelling and Iskashitaa Refugee Network to amplify the voices of refugees and asylum seekers and highlight their contributions to our community as well as hear about their journeys to arrive here.
Click the image to the left to hear Rebecca Ursule's story.
A Question of Repair_ 2-21 Final w Forward.pdfOur EECG team used an equity-centered co-design research approach focused on Alameda, Contra Costa, and Solano counties to answer the primary question: How can workforce development agencies and organizations become a source of repair both within their own organizations and for individuals and communities that have been failed by multiple systems?
We collected data from focus groups and interviews with staff, leaders and clients of the Bay Area workforce development system.
Being on the research team for this project especially aligned with my background and interest in participatory practice, elevating voices of those who need to be heard, and qualitative methods of data collection and analysis.
A complete guide for participatory data storytelling! Co-authoring this publication was a magnum opus for me!
We reflected deeply on the ripple effects of collaboration as representational leaders and adult learners together.
Data Storytelling through Participatory Media - A Step-by-Step Guide for Public Health Practitioners - National Association of County and City Health Officials in collaboration with Seven Directions Center for Indigenous Health, 2024
Students Take the Lead: Promoting Diversity & Inclusion in Adult Ed - COABE Journal, 2023
Arizona Association for Lifelong Learning - Advocate Award, 2021
“Adult Learners Engage with the Drivers of Persistence” blog article for World Education 2017
Arizona Association for Lifelong Learning - Award of Excellence 2012
“Student Leaders as Advocates” case study article, National Coalition for Literacy 2012
The Push and Pull of Peers on Women Learners, Ch. 26 in Miller, M. & King K.P. Empowering Women Through Literacy, 2009
El Pueblo Liberty – Oral History 2000
