Urban Artifacts Higher Ground

Secondary Mathematics Teacher, Certified ESE/Autism Spectrum Endorsed, and Experienced STEM Project Coordinator, I have worked in education for more than 10 total years. Beginning as an Art Teacher in Atlanta, I operated a 501(c)3 that was funded by the City of Atlanta, Fulton County, and private contracts. As a muralist, I have painted several churches in Florida and Atlanta. As a Library Associate, I have served both a Children's Library and the Instructional Learning Center in Fulton County's Library System. As a Volunteer Coordinator for Hands On Atlanta for 4 years, I Coordinated Projects annually with more than 200 Volunteers. As a parent, I have one daughter at SCAD University in Savannah, Georgia.

Project-Based, Student-Centered, and focused on training students to use metacognition to make learning gains through deeper mathematic thinking in a world where everything is instant, and surface level.

STEM CareerSource Grant Award/ Pinellas Education Foundation (2019, 2017, and 2016), Best and Brightest Scholarship/ Pinellas County School Board (2019, 2018, 2017), Teacher of the Year Nominee (2018-19), Duke Energy STEM Grant (2019-2020), Certificate of Distinction (2015).

Bachelor of Science in Anthropology from Georgia State University. Masters in STEM Education (currently) at the University of South Florida. I attended Florida State University from 1993-1995.

I absolutely Loooooove my students. I dedicate this endeavor to them, and I am humbled by the hard work and courage they show daily when faced with systemic barriers to learning yet continue to strive for higher ground.