Brief Intro:

I love exploring how technology connects and disconnects people. I have found social media and emerging technologies to be an asset in both my professional and personal lives. I’ve presented quite extensively on best practices in learning assistance, student success, and technology and learning.

Areas of professional development and research/scholarly interest:

* Online learning and teaching

* Technology and learning

* Learning assistance/academic support program design, management, and evaluation

* First-year college program design and evaluation

* College student retention

* Critical thinking and communication

* Women’s narratives – identity, self-expression, and self-stories

* Communication and self-expression in the digital age

* Emerging technologies & connecting online learners

* Social networking, multi-media sharing, collaborative work-spaces, and mobile technologies

* Digital storytelling

* Digital and information literacy

* Creative writing/creative nonfiction

* Allyship

* Creative Expressions

To learn a little more about me, here is a link to a 2018 video of me as part of a #FacultyFriday social media project at SUNY Empire State College. I talk about my connection to the college, my passion for assisting students, the resources we offer non-traditional students, and the impact the college had on my mother, an alumna of the college from the 1990s.

I also actively maintain a comprehensive Google site that covers the following content:

* Research & Scholarly Interests

* Teaching & Curriculum Development

* Mentoring

* Presentations & Projects

* Curriculum Vitae (CV)

* Creative Expressions – a weekly virtual arts and culture series I host in Zoom.