Maker + Educator
Artist +
Techno Geek Girl

I’ve always been curious about what happens when you bring seemingly unrelated things together. My journey began with art, expanded into technology, and eventually grew into a lifelong exploration of how we learn, create, solve problems, and make ideas real. For more than 40 years, I’ve worked across art, technology, education, and hands-on making — from training creative professionals in the early days of digital imaging to designing learning experiences, conducting educational research, evaluating programs, and sharing ideas through speaking and teaching in the U.S. and Singapore.

That journey eventually led me to Makerology Studio, where I bring all of those experiences together. I have designed makerspaces, developed interdisciplinary STEAM programs, led professional learning, and created hands-on experiences that invite people to be curious, experiment, make mistakes, and try again. I believe making is about much more than learning how to use a tool. It is an expressive way of thinking and creating — a way to explore ideas, connect with others, and discover what might be possible. At its heart, making builds curiosity, creativity, and connection. Today, I’m expanding that work beyond traditional education into creative experiences for individual makers, communities, and organizations in the arts, education, and healthcare, because I believe making changes everything.

Maker Mamma
Making with Meaning

And Thinkering for Fun

I have loved making things forever and consider myself to be a “uni-brain”. My brain is completely cross-wired, blending the technical with the abstract, and the precise with the organic, impacting my approach to everything. I could share decades’ worth of creations and inspiring experiential learning.

For now, I want to share three pivotal experiences that became milestones in my lifelong learning journey. They were filled not only with the craft, skills, and knowledge I gained, but—more importantly—with the mentors who taught me the art of falling down and getting back up again.

These foundational journeys elevated my experience as a
human being + educator + artist + techno geek girl

The ArtScience Prize
Cloud Foundation

Modeled after Cloud Foundation founder, Professor David A. Edwards Harvard class, How to Create things and Make Them Matter, the ArtScience Prize was a . . . . Read More

Genzyme Pharmaceuticals Expression of Hope

While actively working on developing a cure, Genzyme Pharmaceuticals (US) created the Expression of Hope Project to bring global awareness to rare enzyme diseases. Read More

MassArt IMLS Ed Tech Federal Grant

In 2005, I secured the very first federal grant for Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston. MassArt’s Looking to Learn program received funding from . . . Read More