Digital Pedagogy Specialist
Amanda is an urban geographer, filmmaker, artist, designer, and organizer based in NYC. BFA in Fine Art and New Media from Maryland Institute College of Art. Her dissertation research explores young people’s experiences of growing up policed in NYC. Using a variety of embodied, arts, and media based methods in a critical participatory action framework with youth, researching collectively with youth co-researchers to theorize, document, and build upon their life experiences to disrupt dominant legal and social discourses and to generate social, political, and cultural transformation. Faculty development, assignment design, digital pedagogy technology, course design, and student-centered, experiential learning. Ten years of experience using and teaching critical participatory action research with a focus on media-based, ethnographic, and embodied research methods. Background in digital cartography, visual art, graphic design, website design and development, and video production. Microsoft (PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Teams), Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere).
Ask me about: Birding, urban gardening.
