A Calgary-based educator with a Master of Education from UBC, certified Early Childhood Educator status in Alberta, and ten-plus years working with K–12 learners – particularly autistic, ADHD, and twice-exceptional kids.
I hold a Master of Education in Early Childhood Education from the University of British Columbia, a BA in Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice Studies (also from UBC), and a Diploma in Theatre Performance Arts from Mount Royal University.
I'm a licensed Early Childhood Educator in both Alberta and BC, and I've worked in daycares, preschools, and before/after-school programs – including two years at Little Mountain Neighbourhood House Society in East Vancouver, and four years at Alps Education in Richmond, BC, working mostly with Chinese-Canadian children and families across English, French, social studies, STEAM, and outdoor education. I've also worked as a Behaviour Interventionist in the autism community, privately and through Monarch House.
Alongside teaching, I've done grassroots advocacy and research with organizations like AutismBC and the Coalition of Child Care Advocates of BC, with a focus on the $10aDay child care campaign. My poetry and writing on education, social justice, and environmental sustainability have appeared in the Georgia Straight, the Montreal Gazette, the Vancouver Sun, the Journal of Childhood Studies, and elsewhere.
Through my own business, I offer tutoring, education-policy consultation, teacher-education workshops, and family-based child care.
Here's the full picture – the degrees, licences, and the advocacy and writing that shape how I show up for the kids and families I work with.
