Location: Seattle Washington

My passion is quality teaching and learning. I am the mom of three beautiful children and have the best husband in the world.

I currently work at Adobe Systems in the Global Learning team, and volunteer with Bridges to Understanding.

I have recently taken a class in Digital Storytelling at Antioch University, and am also taking classes at the University of Washington's School of Education.

I want to help introduce Digital Storytelling into the K-12 curriculum as a way to give students more voice, create relevant meaningful learning experiences, and provide teachers with an instructional model that lets them be facilitators of learning, rather than providers of content.

Raised in the Texas 'burbs, began writing poems (inspired by Gary Snyder) and then songs (Willie Nelson, Dylan, etc.) then became a tech/network dude, then got inhaled into the newsroom at MSNBC in '95 and became an internet, multimedia journalist. Grew tired of plane crashes and sex scandals and began to work more on digital media software (day job) and beats and mixes (as whitehippodj). Currently a webmaster for a Christian humanitarian relief organization (summer '07) and working on my videography. Need to be writing more...

I'm faculty in the Education Program at the University of Washington Bothell. I'm very interested in the potential of digital stories to explore the complicated processes of upward mobility, to support reflection on classroom teaching in diverse schools, and to spark conversation about social class in the U.S. I'll be teaching my first digital story telling class for classroom teachers this summer. My blog, in which I explore issues of social class, education, and identity (with an occasional tie-in to digital learning) can by found at: educationandclass.com