Features

First-Gen Zone Conference 2026

• Mapping Your Power: First-Gen Success Through SWOT Analysis and Goal Setting

NCTE Convention 2025

• Panel presentation titled “Boldly Disrupting the Five Paragraph Essay: Teaching Students to Dream with Project Based Learning”

• Panel presentation: Dream Boldly, Lead Bravely: Bridging Classrooms and Communities Through Student Research 

• Early Career Educator of Color Award Session

Arizona English Teachers Association 2025

• Workshop session titled “Disrupting the Five Paragraph Essay: Teaching Students to Dream with Project Based Learning”

Arizona English Teachers Association 2024

• Poster presentation titled “Illuminating Student Voices: Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy in Authentic Writing Tasks”