On this page are my current projects, and things I'm working on.
Last updated: June 2026
Education Design Lab
For three years, I've been doing work I really care about as an Education Designer at Education Design Lab — closing the gap between the skills people have and the opportunities they can access.
My current focus is leading the grantee cohort for the Advancing Workforce Mobility Initiative, a $3.5 million effort supported by Walmart and Credential Engine to make workers' credentials more visible, trusted, and transferable. That means providing hands-on technical assistance to a diverse group of organizations — from workforce programs and tribal communities to corrections and regional tech initiatives — facilitating a Community of Practice, and translating what we're learning across the cohort into tools and insights the whole field can use.
That field-building instinct runs through everything I do at the Lab. This year I'm co-authoring two publications: a revised skills validation toolkit and a research report on how skills assessments are used across the full employment lifecycle. I'm also bringing this work to the Badge Summit in Boulder this July, presenting alongside four colleagues on how to make skills visible, portable, and meaningful for learners.
Edjacent
I am working to relaunch the public-facing side of Edjacent on a simple but urgent premise: the best thing AI can do for education is give teachers their time back. Not replace them — make them more human. Working alongside experienced educators as subject matter experts, we build custom AI solutions designed around the tasks that pull teachers away from what they do best: connecting with kids, facilitating real learning, and making the kind of judgment calls no algorithm can. Our current work spans K–12 schools and administrators, as well as nontraditional school environments. Every solution starts with the educator. We don't hand teachers a tool and walk away — we co-design with them, so what gets built actually reflects how they think, what they need, and who they serve. Stay tuned for more updates!
The CROP Foundation
Some of the most meaningful work happens at the intersection of things you wouldn't expect to find together. For me, that's culinary education, disability inclusion, and credential design.
Through my private consulting practice, I'm co-leading curriculum and badging system development for Versability, a grant-funded initiative partnering with CROP Foundation to build the educational backbone of The Ability Cafe — set to open in 2027. CROP's founder, Chef Kip Poole, brings years of experience developing culinary curriculum for schools and programs. I bring the skills visibility infrastructure. Together we're building something foundational.
What excites me most about this project is the breadth of what we're making visible. Culinary technique is only part of the picture — the curriculum spans nutrition, hospitality, and durable skills, designed so that students, employers, and customers alike can see and trust what participants know and can do. For learners who have often been underestimated, that visibility isn't just a credential design question. It's a dignity question.
The work is in early design stages, which means we're getting to build it right — thoughtfully, deliberately, and grounded in the community it's meant to serve.
The FUSE Pathway with Allison Zmuda
What if students didn't have to choose between their passions — what if combining them was the point?
That's the premise behind the FUSE Pathway, a curriculum framework built on the idea that fusing two or more unrelated interests, hobbies, or areas of expertise is how people build a life worth living. Inspired by the work of Paul Kirby, the FUSE Pathway is designed for students in grades 6–12 and flexible enough to live inside a traditional school, an after-school program, or a homeschool setting.
I was brought in by renowned curriculum consultant and author Allison Zmuda to co-design the curriculum through my independent consulting practice. Together we're building something that takes life design seriously as a discipline — giving young people the frameworks, language, and tools to see their own interests as the foundation of something real.
What I'm most proud of is how we've kept actual students at the center of the work. We're interviewing young people who have already done this in their own lives — fused their passions into something unexpected and meaningful — and using their stories as the curriculum's backbone. The three-legged stool graphic organizer we developed helps students map their vision against the knowledge domains needed to support it. The program is currently in pilot, with plans to pitch to schools, programs, and homeschooling families.