I am an educational developer, with a passion for student success. I approach my work with a lens for equity, diversity, and inclusion – whether I am working with instructors, students, staff, or my colleagues. Working in the Office of Open Learning at the University of Windsor, I coordinate and supervise the Peer Assisted Learning Sessions (PALS) program, support the development of open educational resources (OERs), and collaborate with faculty to design, investigate, and redesign courses. It took me nearly 6 years of graduate school to identify educational development as a potential career, but I fell in love with it during my PhD internship, and am eager to build a career by making a difference in the lives students and instructors alike.

I am a former PhD candidate in Applied Social Psychology, having taken a stop-out in the spring of 2020. My dissertation, which was successfully proposed, examines the relationship between emotional intelligence and student-defined academic success across disciplines. In completing my comprehensive requirements, I realized there are substantial gaps in the way we discuss both student success and predictors of it. My research will contribute to the growing field of academic success by documenting students’ own definitions in relation to their discipline, emotional intelligence profiles, and academic outcomes, which will inform first-year transition, and ongoing student support programs.