My dissertation research reflects the accumulation of my experience as a researcher, educator and designer of digital learning environments.
Throughout my career I have worked with youth from diverse racial, working-class and immigrant backgrounds. During my studies at the UA, I was also engaged in comparative survey research (Arizona/Netherlands) on new media and youth learning networks with the Wired Up Group at Utrecht University, My dissertation is entitled, "Forming a Collaborative Model for Appropriating Youth Practices and Digital Tools for New Literacies Development with Teachers and Latino Students" (read more below). I have a minor in Anthropology and a MA in Latin American Studies. I completed my dissertation at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona, in the Department of Teaching Learning and Sociocultural Studies (formerly known as Language Reading & Culture) with the support of a UA Marshall Dissertation Fellowship. The project studies the everyday practices and new media repertoires of Latino and low income youth and families in homes and a designed learning ecology. I was a Postdoctoral Fellow and Research Director on the project until PI Kris Gutierrez moved to UC Berkeley in Fall 2014. Mimi Ito at the Digital Learning and Media Hub at UC Irvine as well as researchers from several other universities. Kris Gutierrez and a team of graduate and undergraduate students on a MacArthur funded Connected Learning Research Network (CLRN) project entitled "Leveraging Horizontal Expertise". Margaret Eisenhart to analyze and present on data from a longitudinal NSF-funded study of High School STEM Opportunity Structures in Colorado. Recently, I was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Colorado, Boulder. I also conduct research and evaluation on the quality of relationships in the networks that our office helps to develop and support. Currently I develop partnerships among CU-Boulder faculty, students and staff and communities across Colorado.
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