I worked at Prospect Hill Academy Charter School, where I created, developed, and taught narrative, expressive arts, cognitive behavioral, and dialectical behavior therapy-based, screenwriting & mixed media arts programming with a focus on psychoeducation and emotional literacy, co-planned and collaborated with academic content teachers on project-based learning curricula design across all subjects, led group and individual advisory sessions, created restorative justice student support learning projects on topics such as mitigating gender-based violence, identity-based harm, misogynoir, internalized racism, linguistic oppression, homophobia, colorism, and xenophobia, and managed the makerspace media lab for students ages 14-18.

I worked in collaboration with Massachusetts’ Department of Youth Services (DYS) in the juvenile justice space to lead a team of educators and support students with complex trauma ages 12-21. I implemented emotional regulation and de-escalation techniques to mitigate harm and ensure safe, quality programming, advocated for youth in staffing, treatment, and regional review team meetings, created individual support plans, managed annual budget, and dual enrolled students in college courses and vocational programs. I also created and taught therapy-based, trauma-informed, English Language Arts, visual arts, screenwriting, creative writing, memoir writing, reading, and career readiness curricula.

I worked with students grades 1-12 to promote self-confidence, improve emotional literacy, find comfort in one’s identity, and establish community building through writing. I supervised 7 people annually, developed culturally-aware emergency action plans, worked on the DEI and TLC committees, and conducted interviews as a hiring manager. I also developed and led trainings for volunteers on supporting students during tragedies, navigating bullies, leaving implicit bias behind, incorporating social emotional learning and the universal design for learning, using strengths-based vs. deficits-based language, improving student self-advocacy, working with neurodivergent learners, preventing, mitigating, and restoring harm, and applying best strategies for student engagement.

In conjunction with WriteGirl, Bold Ink Writers, & The Arts for Healing and Justice Network, I have worked mentoring and leading creative writing workshops for teens in juvenile detention and probation centers across multiple sites in Los Angeles.

I have taught Foundations of Screenwriting to undergraduate students at Northwestern University. In addition to foundation film and television courses, I am capable of teaching comedy, dramedy, stand-up, animation, pitching, writing our truth, writing to heal, and diverse voices in media writing.

I have designed original curriculum and led mixed media arts comedy writing workshops for teenagers in alternative education environments through artworxLA.

I have worked with Writopia Lab in Los Angeles, teaching creative writing, screenwriting, graphic novel writing, and poetry workshops to writers ages 7-18.