I'm interested in realizing the potential of librarians -- school and public -- to advance STEM literacy and global literacy in their communities. STEM literacy + global literacy builds a multidisciplinary and multicultural perspective on the world. STEM literacy is expressed when groups of people have the knowledge, understandings, skills, dispositions, and behaviors to competently make decisions and act on local, regional, national and global issues together.

I believe libraries will play a key role in supporting the growth of interconnected solutions, not only by increasing technology-enabled access and interconnectedness to needed resources and information, but also as locally-based institutions that provide contextualized knowledge and skills for place-based, real world inquiry, investigation, and problem-solving that can be accessed by all. I believe STEM literacy must be exceptionally and broadly supported through enabling platforms and digital libraries that are accessible to the nation’s core democratic and community-based institutions - public libraries and schools.

For the past ten years, my work has focused on the development and best use of high-value digital libraries for advancing open knowledge society and accessibility to open educational resources (OER) around the globe.

M.A., World Cultures and History, Digital Libraries and Learning
University of California, Merced (2009)

M.L.I.S., Global Librarianship, Digital Libraries and Instructional Design
San Jose State University (2011)