I received my Ed.M. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education in Technology, Innovation and Education in 2013. Prior to the program, I taught high school mathematics and led a Precalculus course team in a Chicago charter school. My success in helping students from urban settings achieve content mastery and pursue math related disciplines in college led me to be named a Harvard University Urban Scholar. After graduating, I designed technologies for learning accessibility at HarvardX, CAST, IDC Herziliya’s Media Innovation Lab, and Scholastic. See more on my website and on LinkedIn. I am currently a doctoral candidate in the Educational Communication and Technology program at NYU’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. The focus of my research is how to design technologies to increase student motivation for learning. Likewise, I am in the early stages of founding a startup, which provides educators with support and resources to design custom blended learning models that inspires deep, meaningful learning experiences.