Teaching Philosophy
Every student offers their own flavor of brilliance—it’s my job to discover this and have them flaunt it in everything they pursue. I do this to foster unfettered thinking and nonstop learning. As a creative educator, I believe that I, too, must be open-minded; sometimes students have a better idea than me, when it comes to how to go about learning something. Above all else, I strive to create a positive atmosphere of eager creativity in my classroom, whether individual or collaborative, where students are enlivened enough to push their skill sets in unique, often outlandish directions. (Isn’t that what school is all about?)

Teaching Methods
• Avant-garde ideation (e.g., wrong-hand drawing, blind contour drawing, upside-down critique, etc.)
• Flipped classroom
• Gamified learning
• Project-based learning

Teaching Experience
• Adjunct Professor: Interaction Design 2 (CODE3011) - University of Cincinnati, 2025
• Assistant Adjunct Professor: Design Aesthetics 2 (CODE1110) - University of Cincinnati, 2025
• Assistant Adjunct Professor: Computer Graphics for Non-Majors (CMDS1085) - University of Cincinnati, 2024
• Adjunct Professor: Design Drawing (CODE1000) - University of Cincinnati, 2024
• Assistant Adjunct Professor: Design Aesthetics 1 (CODE1010) - University of Cincinnati, 2024
• Adjunct Professor: Design Aesthetics 3: Computational Aesthetics (CODE2012) - University of Cincinnati, 2022
• Instructor: Graphic Design Summer Camp - Digital Media Academy at Harvard University, 2017
• Instructor: Graphic Design Summer Camp - Digital Media Academy at Southern Plano University, 2016
• Facilitator: “No Fluff: Designing for Visual Economy, Relevance, & Utility in a Graphically Inundated World” (original workshop) - Harvard University, 2016
• Graduate Teaching Assistant: Design Thinking & Problem Solving (DSGN1070) - University of Cincinnati, 2016
• Graduate Teaching Assistant: Communication Design for Professional Practice (GRCD1030) - University of Cincinnati, 2015, 2016

Bragging Rights
• I taught one section of a class while another professor taught the other section in the room next to mine. A student from the other class actually entered my room and asked me (instead of her own professor) for critique, voicing that she preferred me over that person. In other words, I've literally caused defectors with my teaching style!
• A student in Design Aesthetics 1 told me, “I really enjoy your innovative teaching methods!”
• A student in Design Aesthetics 1 told me he structured his entire next semester around my Aesthetics 2 class; he prioritized signing up for me above all his other classes!
• During Design Aesthetics 3: Computational Aesthetics, I once told everyone I had to cancel the next class and one student frowned sadly and loudly asked, “Why?!”
• A student at the Digital Media Academy (in Texas) once came up to me after class and said, “I LOVE you as a teacher!”

Student Works
(Coming soon.)