More About Me

Summary

Innovative learning professional with extensive experience developing effective processes and facilitating engaging learning experiences that meet program goals. A strong background in learning theories, teaching pedagogies, and course development. Proven experience with student-centered programming, cross-departmental collaboration, and ongoing program evaluation and redesign. Commitment to effective, strategic, and data-driven problem-solving and implementation.

Topics I’m Interested In

  • Design-based research in education

  • Online teaching and learning

  • Educational technologies

  • Task-based teaching and learning

  • Hmong language resilience and revitalization

  • Hmong literacy practices and development

  • Family language policy/planning

  • Digital literacies

  • Indigenous, community-based, and participatory methodologies

Selected Workshops and Presentations

  • “Participatory Learning and Endangered Language Reclamation on Instagram,” Symposium Title: Transformative Digital Spaces: Disrupting Traditional Notions of Learning and Reimagining Educational Possibilities Through Social Media, American Educational Research Association Conference, Philadelphia, PA, April 11-14, 2024

  • “Designing for the Virtual Classroom: Social Presence, Placemaking, and Belonging” Berkeley School of Education Research Day, University of California, Berkeley, April 2024

  • “The Affordances and Challenges of Teaching an Endangered Language on Instagram,” International Conferences on Indigenous Language Documentation, Education, and Revitalization, hosted by the Council of Indigenous Language Organizations, Bloomington, IN, October 12-14, 2023

  • “Digital Storytelling and Hmong Language Reclamation,” Colloquium Title: Hmong heritage language reclamation: Heteroglossic concerns in sustaining a severely endangered language, American Association of Applied Linguistics Conference, Portland, OR, March 2023

  • “Envisioning HMoob Futurity in and for Education and Educational Studies,” American Educational Studies Association Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, November 2022

  • “Teaching to Sustain, Recognize, and Foster Refugee Knowledge and Epistemologies,” Refugee Teaching Institute, July 2022, University of California, Merced

  • “Beyond Visibility: Centering Hmong Stories & Developing Hmong Agency”, Butte College, Oroville, CA, May 2021

  • Hmong Legacy: My Culture, My Story, 10-part storytelling and writing workshop series, CSU, Chico, Spring 2018, Fall 2018 and Spring 2019

Publications