Biography

I began my teaching career delivering hands-on science lectures at Boston’s Museum of Science, where I learned to present complex scientific facts in an engaging, yet accurate way, often while holding a squirming baby alligator or a feisty prairie dog. Since then, I have taught hands-on science to 1st graders, tended bar, taught college students at Harvard, roadied for U2, and worked as an online course developer at a software firm. I have a Master’s degree in Technology, Innovation, and Education and have taught computer science at the high school level for 16 years, most recently at Punahou School in Honolulu, Hawaii. I spent part of 2017 as a research fellow at MIT, looking at ways to mitigate the effects of unconscious bias on girls and minorities in the computer science classroom. I am a dad, food truck aficionado, friend to dogs, and reformed skydiver.

In my free time, I love reading books, playing games, and exploring all forms of digital media.