The growing need for UX practitioners is driving academic institutions and industry to find innovative ways to blend research, professionalization, and teaching to inspire and train people to enter the workplace.

I am currently Associate Professor and serve as Chair of the Department of Writing Studies at the University of Miami. I also serve as the Director of Innovation and Society. My scholarly training is in professional writing, user experience, and rhetorical theory. My scholarship focuses on experience design, creativity and innovation, and experiential learning. I teach courses in professional writing, user experience, rhetoric, songwriting, and design thinking. My scholarship has appeared in journals such as Kairos, Computers and Composition, Transactions on Professional Communication, and Technical Communication.