I bring 20+ years of international teaching experience to create meaningful, user-focused, human-centered design at the intersection of education, arts, and technology. Throughout my career, I’ve built a reputation on collaboration, connection, creativity, and problem-solving.

 

I am a multi-instrumentalist and sound artist with graduate degrees in Music Education (Columbia University) and Contemporary Arts. I explore photography, visual art, and sound experiences to support creative and meditative liminalities. Colleagues describe me as resourceful, innovative, and a genuine collaborator—driven by curiosity, creativity, and a commitment to making a positive impact.

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Some of my key accomplishments include co-creating regional music festivals, leading performing arts teams, securing funding for artist-in-residence programs, and designing innovative curricula for Jazz @ Lincoln Center, where I piloted the award-winning WeBop! program. I have a track record of building music programs into high-quality, reputable experiences, and I’m now expanding into Human-Centered Design, EdTech (SeeSaw), sound design, and UX/IX to help create empathetic, user-focused solutions.

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Accomplishments in Education and Sound

• 2026 - Co-Created a pilot Contemporary Arts Festival for international schools in the Asia/Middle East region

  • Students 12-18 collaborate and creatively problem solve solutions to express their artistry through sound and art​​​​​​

• 2024 - Received an MA in Contemporary Arts with a thesis focusing on the Ontology of Vibration

• 2023 - Opened a sound studio in collaboration with Nora Lim, where I co-designed and co-facilitated sound experiences that were customized for individuals to receive the benefits of sound therapy and vibrational healing

• 2019 - Co-planned, co-taught, and co-assessed an 8-week songwriting unit in collaboration with Deborah Lee and the choir and guitar classes.​

  • The students had the autonomy to choose their band mates, create a band name, lyrics, chord changes, and form, and record their songs as a summative

  • We recorded the music in the studio and created AISC's first original album.

• 2018 - Was granted approval for Dr. Kofi Gbolonyo as "Artist-in-Residence" to work with our bands and choirs to learn and perform the music from Ghana

  • Dr. Kofi is an ethnomusicologist and professor at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.

  • This was one of the very best school concerts I have ever created. The audience never sat down; the students were so energized, they blew the roof off that theater! Concert band + Choir + Percussion ensemble, all singing, dancing, playing, and Improvising. During the concert, we couldn't stop them! One after another, students wanted their turn, their opportunity to be a part of something so magical, it's hard to describe. 

• 2018 - facilitated a Teacher PD weekend with Dr. Kofi, teaching teachers from all over the world the techniques of Orff-Shulwerk.

• 2018 - Directed the regional music festival "Let Us Be Heard," inspired by the # MeToo movement

  • I created an original arrangement of the composition "My Shot" written by Lin-Manuel Miranda for band and choir

  • Collaborated with teachers in the region to combine ensembles from three schools and rehearse/perform together

• 2016 - 1st place Winner of the South East Asia Band Regional Championships with my MS band (grades 7-8)

• 2015 - Performed a 45-minute concert with our 125-member beginning band (their first band concert)

  • 24 flutes, 26 clarinets, 12 alto saxophones, 6 tenor saxophones, 18 trumpets, 14 trombones, 7 euphoniums, 2 bass guitars, and 16 percussionists.

  • I have never felt such a wall of sound, and the best part was the students who courageously improvised solos

• 2012 - As a music teacher in Hong Kong, my Rock band classes performed at a mall in Wan Chai, Hong Kong, and a restaurant. 

• 2008 - Composed a beginning band piece with Indonesian Gamelan

  • Parents told me they had never seen/heard anything like it. I agree, to this day, I haven't either

• 2008 - The percussion ensemble I started at PS161 in Harlem was invited to perform for the Chancellor of Education and appeared on NY1 television

• 2007 - Volunteered at "Hekima Place" in Karen, Kenya (outside Nairobi), where I taught artistic experiences and documented the music-making of young orphaned girls who live at the Hekima Place orphanage

• 2007 - Created a percussion ensemble with a city grant for 21 Djembe drums at P.S. 161 in Harlem, NYC

  • ​​Taught the students in Harlem the music I learned from Hekima Place​

• 2005 - Inducted into the Kappa Delta Pi International Honors Society in Education

  • Kappa Delta Pi recognizes high professional, intellectual, and personal standards and outstanding contributions to education ​

• 2004 - Co-created and taught the Jazz curriculum for young people at JAZZ@Lincoln Center's "WeBop!" program under the direction of Wynton Marsalis of J@LC and Dr. Lori Custodero of Teachers College, Columbia University

  • Taught Jazz experiences to children ages 2-5 with live musicians from the Jazz@Lincoln Center Orchestra