I didn’t have a roadmap when I began my career. What I had was curiosity and the good fortune to keep landing alongside extraordinary people who pushed my thinking in ways that continue to be powerful and inspiring.

My early career was shaped by Children's Television Workshop and Bank Street College of Education, where I first encountered the power of interactive media and did pioneering research on gender and technology and the emerging ed tech field. What I discovered, and what has never left me, is that the best learning experiences don't deliver knowledge to children. They open a space for curiosity and creativity to take hold. That insight became my north star.

Fifteen years at the Education Development Center taught me that durable change requires holding R&D, practitioner knowledge, and policy in genuine partnership—and, above all, centering young people’s innate creativity and agency. It was there that I learned that sustainable impact happens when we trust youth to drive their own learning, and treat educators as the experts they are.

These lessons found their fullest expression at the New York Hall of Science. During my fifteen-year tenure, I built exhibits, created a science-themed pre-school, and developed digital experiences at the frontier of creative learning, all while navigating the realities of a city-owned institution with deep obligations to its community. Most recently, the Scratch Foundation offered me the chance to steward a platform that has shaped the creative and computational lives of more than 160 million children worldwide.

What I'm most proud of is the quality of the relationships and the integrity of the work, and the knowledge that, across four decades, the environments and institutions I've helped build have expanded what hundreds of millions of young people imagine is possible for themselves.