A bit about me
I've spent two decades in education — teaching 5th grade in West Harlem with Teach For America, then helping scale Teach For All and Girls Who Code internationally. I hold a Masters in Education and recently served on the pedagogy committee at Brightworks School, an alternative school here in San Francisco. I homebirthed my babies, co-founded a cooperative forest preschool, trained as a doula, and led several connection parenting communities. Today I'm co-founding Wyla — an ethical edtech company designed from the ground up on liberatory principles.
When I became a mother, I started my own deschooling — unlearning the very systems I'd excelled in. Motherhood was the catalyst for understanding how traditional schooling creates conformity and limits our individual and collective imagination. I came to see freeing our own imaginations as a prerequisite for raising and educating free people, and started to recognize all the places that traditional schooling (and work environments!) limit our capacity to dream.
In the study and practice of mothering my own children, I also came to realize that deep, attuned connection is central to the work of liberating ourselves and each other. Through deep attunement and support, we create the conditions for one another to thrive. Consent-based, liberation-based learning isn't a philosophy — it's a relational practice.
I've been in deep study about what blocks kids and adults alike from learning, making, and accessing their full creative capacity, and what it takes to create educational environments that unleash both our belief in our capacity and our active practice in actualizing it.
I am a multimodal creator: I write, screenprint, make zines, and code — documenting my journey along the way. It's the same way I hope children get to learn: by making things that matter to them and putting them into the world.
