Educational Leadership

Drawing on years of artivism and community organizing, I understand educational leadership not as hierarchical, but as a relational and collective practice. Through my teaching, research, and service, I have enacted leadership roles by fostering learning ecologies that involve collaborations between formal educational institutions, communities, and organizations. Viewing leadership in this way entails an ethical commitment to distributing power across disciplines, institutions, diverse cultures, epistemologies, and actors for the collective mapping of educational policies and the co-design of learning environments, curricula, and programmes. I have framed my leadership practice around these principles through long-standing work in various countries in Latin America and Canada, enabling me to participate in transnational dialogues on human rights and social justice education, as well as decolonizing methodologies and epistemologies from the Global South, among other fields.

Doctoral Research: Hybrid Learning Ecologies through Digital Documentary

University of British Columbia — 2017–2026

Demonstrates how to build hybrid (online/in-person) learning ecologies through participatory methods using digital documentary practices to reach new audiences.

Toolkit for Engaging Young People as Community Co-Educators in Higher Education

UBC Centre for Community Engaged Learning (CCEL) — 2024–2025

Leading a project to develop a toolkit based on the Six Rs for decolonizing higher education. Potential to expand to a digital media project fostering university–community collaborations with organizations such as WATARI, MOSAIC, Rainbow Refugee, Hua Foundation, or Tulayan.

Human Service Career Enrichment Program (HSCEP): Mapping Networked Support

Chilliwack Social Research and Planning Council — 2024

Co-authored report mapping how mentoring, institutional, university, and community networks support the well-being of young people and students.

Grassroots Community Organizing and Granting Practices

City of Vancouver (UBC Sustainability Scholar) — 2022

Researched the benefits of granting practices that support grassroots organizing for community well-being.

Community Engagement Projects

UBC Downtown Eastside (DTES) Learning Exchange

Collaborated on several projects promoting community engagement, connecting university resources and infrastructure with the DTES’s diverse equity-seeking communities.

Curriculum Enhancement Project for Anti-Racism and Decolonization

UBC Faculty of Education

As graduate research assistant: helped coordinate projects and co-authored content. Participatory methods, critical instructional design tools, and open educational practices to renovate and improve curriculum at the department level.

Decolonizing Together: Facing and Challenging Racism and Discrimination in Teacher Education

UBC Faculty of Education — 2022–2023

As graduate research assistant: coordinated projects and symposia, co-authored content and academic papers. Utilized participatory methods to develop critical instructional design tools and open educational practices for curriculum renewal.

E-Learning Course on Human Rights Education for Rural Teachers

Costa Rica

Designed an e-learning course on human rights education for rural teachers in Costa Rica, stemming from master’s thesis research on social injustices in the hidden and explicit curricula of rural schools.

ICT in Education Assessment for K–12 Policy

Inter-American Development Bank, Ministries of Education, and non-profit organizations

Coordinated a project to assess the costs and benefits of various uses of information and communication technology (ICT) in education to inform K–12 policy and curriculum development.

Civic and Community Engagement in K–12 Curricula

UNICEF and Costa Rican Ministry of Education

Collaborated to design and promote civic and community engagement within K–12 curricula, working across government, institutions, and the non-profit sector.

Inter-American Report on Human Rights Education (HRE)

Inter-American Institute of Human Rights — 2010–2012

Coordinated the work of 17 researchers to conduct extensive public policy, curriculum, and programme reviews to determine the state of human rights education in Latin America (Rodino et al., 2010, 2011).