We are entering an era where the primary challenge is no longer access to information, or even efficiency, but the cultivation of meaningful human experience in learning and living.

I am an education researcher obsessed with one question: In an age of rapid change and increasing complexity, how do we design systems that make us feel more alive, not less?

I explore this question through two distinct laboratories:

1. The System (My Professional Work) As the Leader of the K-12 Nexus for the NSF AI Institute for Student-AI Teaming (iSAT) at the University of Colorado Boulder, I work with teachers, students, and schools to explore how we can center teaming and collaboration for the future of education. We are testing how teachers, students, and AI partners can co-create dynamic, responsive learning environments, where technology scaffolds creativity rather than enforcing convergent outcomes.

2. The Self (My Personal Practice) I treat my own life as a case study in finding coherence. As a neurodivergent thinker, my mind naturally resists linear control, so I use my personal practice to experiment with systems that support emergent thinking. Currently, this involves deep work in Human-AI Teaming, using tools not to generate content for me, but to generate the structure that allows my own thinking to flourish.

The Mission Whether on a mountaineering route, in an elementary classroom, or managing a complex project, the goal is the same: To build systems that don't do the work for us, but help us be our best selves.

I am currently writing about the intersection of Human Agency, AI, and the future of learning. Follow along as I explore the findings.