Educator with a strong commitment to equity, to justice, and to childhood. Currently serving as a Master Kindergarten Teacher at the Fanny Edel Falk Laboratory School housed in the University of Pittsburgh’s College of Education. I also teach a combined undergraduate/graduate section of Intro to Early Childhood Education at Pitt. I have a B.A. degree in Spanish and International Relations (with minors in Latin American Studies and Anthropology) from the State University of New York's College at Geneseo, and an M.Ed. degree in Reading Education from Texas State University. My professional interests center around early literacy instruction and language policy, perspectives, and pedagogy within schools. Also actively exploring and imagining abolitionist pedagogies and ways to protect, cultivate, and teach freedom in schools for young children.