Programs & Projects
The programs and projects collected here explore the relationship between language, story, learning, and community. Developed in collaboration with learners, partners, and local organizations, they create opportunities for conversation, reflection, skill-building, and connection. While each project responds to a particular context, all are grounded in a shared commitment to attention, participation, and care.
Community Learning & Engagement
Creating spaces where language learning, curiosity, and connection come together through community-based educational experiences.
Community learning begins with people—their experiences, questions, and relationships. These programs bring together language learning, conversation, creativity, civic engagement, and everyday life to create welcoming spaces where participants build confidence while learning alongside one another.
Rather than treating education as information delivered to learners, I see it as a shared process of discovery. Whether discussing current events, exploring art, or practicing English through conversation, each experience encourages curiosity, participation, and a stronger sense of belonging.
Selected Programs
Conversation Cafe · Learn English Through Art · Learn English Through Sound · Smart Strategies for Reading Success
Storytelling & Creative Practice
Exploring the power of story, theatre, and creative expression to deepen reflection, strengthen relationships, and imagine new possibilities together.
Storytelling creates opportunities for people to reflect on their lives, share experiences, and discover new perspectives. Drawing on my background in theatre and community education, I design creative experiences that invite imagination, collaboration, and meaningful dialogue across cultures and communities.
Whether through personal narrative, improvisation, reader’s theatre, or collaborative writing, creative practice becomes a way of building confidence, honoring lived experience, and transforming individual stories into shared moments of connection.
Selected Programs
Resilient Roots: Storytelling & Creative Writing · Performing Everyday Life · Food, Stories, and Home · August Improv Series
Facilitation, Partnerships & Civic Learning
Building collaborations that strengthen organizations, develop leadership, and expand opportunities for learning across communities.
Meaningful community work grows through collaboration. I partner with schools, libraries, museums, nonprofit organizations, and neighborhood leaders to create educational experiences that respond to local needs while bringing people together across different backgrounds and perspectives.
I view facilitation as creating the conditions for dialogue, learning, and collective action. Through thoughtful partnerships and responsive program design, these collaborations strengthen organizations while expanding opportunities for participation, leadership, and lasting community connection.
Selected Programs
Everyday Democracy · Immigrants Rights & Community Safety · Teaching with Confidence · Caring for Ourselves Together: Personal and Collective Growth · Growing Together: Gardening for Community and Well-Being
Community Stories
Maria Elena shares a story about her mother—one of strength, sacrifice, and perseverance. Through reflection and personal narrative, she honors her mother’s experiences while considering the ways family stories shape who we become.
Produced as part of the Learn English Through Sound program at Aquinas Literacy Center, this learner spotlight illustrates how storytelling preserves memory, strengthens connection, and gives voice to lived experience.
Community Collaborations
This work is strengthened through ongoing relationships with schools, libraries, community organizations, and local partners. Whether co-designing programs, contributing expertise, hosting learning experiences, or connecting participants with community resources, these collaborations create richer opportunities for learning, storytelling, dialogue, and community engagement.
Collaborators include:
Community Moments
Every program tells a story. These photographs capture some of the conversations, collaborations, celebrations, and everyday moments of learning that have shaped this work.
Interested In Collaborating?
Much of my work grows through collaboration. I enjoy working with schools, libraries, community organizations, and cultural institutions to create opportunities for learning, storytelling, dialogue, and community engagement.