Open to conversations about building leadership
Everything I make starts simple. A single mushroom, a single form, drawn again and again in overlapping line until it holds, then brought into Blender to give it dimension, scale, and a world to live in. I teach the same way.
8+
years of instructional leadership in NYC's highest-need schools
7+
years designing for social-justice organizations
2
master's degrees: Educational Leadership and Visual Arts Education
200
hours of mindfulness and SEL certification
01 — The story
My journey began in Grenada. As an artist and educator, I believe education should help young people shape their own lives. I want students to recognize their creative capacities and practice making choices for themselves.
In 2006, I crossed an ocean of anticipation. New York went from a distant dream to a tangible reality. The raw streets of Brownsville required me to redefine myself, and education became the compass for a resilience I'm still building on.
Today I work as a middle school art educator and instructional coach, designing inclusive, interdisciplinary learning experiences that center student voice, identity, and access. Alongside my school-based work, I collaborate with artists and educators through The Black School to create liberatory learning spaces that honor Black imagination and community knowledge.
02 — Who I work with
Schools & organizations
NYS School Building Leader certified, with 8+ years driving instructional turnarounds in NYC's highest-need schools, including tangible year-over-year growth in academic outcomes. Open to conversations about building-level leadership.
View my experience ↗Communities
Free curriculum, lessons, and resources built for brown and BIPOC learners, rooted in identity, joy, and access. Education as an act of hope.
Explore lessons →Collaborators
7+ years designing for social-justice organizations, including The Black School and Athenaeum. Open to curriculum co-development, design work, and liberatory learning partnerships.
Get in touch →03 — Education & training
Degrees
2025
Brooklyn College · School Building Leader & School District Leader
NYS School Building Leadership certification · GPA 3.93
2022
Hunter College
NYS Visual Arts K–12 certification · Independent study with Nari Ward · GPA 3.97
2019
The City College of New York
Valedictorian · Phi Beta Kappa · S Jay Levy Fellow · TheDream.US National Opportunity Scholar · Dean's List · GPA 3.8. Editor of The Paper, a historic Harlem newspaper and magazine.
Fellowships & training
2024
National Endowment for the Humanities · New-York Historical Society
2023
Relay Graduate School of Education
Certified to facilitate equity and inclusive-culture professional development
2023
Uncommon Schools
Two-year leadership residency in school-building leadership and instructional coaching
2022
University of Georgia
Guest lectures on bell hooks' pedagogy and community building
2021
Breathe for Change
SEL strategies, wellness, and de-escalation
04 — Areas of expertise
Inclusive, interdisciplinary learning rooted in student voice, identity, and access, from weekly data cycles to building-wide curriculum coherence.
Operationalizing whole-school systems, from restorative culture and MTSS to strategic planning and building-level leadership.
Teaching art as a means of change: classrooms where creativity, academic rigor, and cultural identity reinforce each other instead of running on separate tracks.
From designing for social-justice organizations to building data dashboards, bridging creative vision and technical execution.
“Liberatory education empowers students to be agents of change in their own lives—to practice self-determination and recognize themselves as the creative innovators they already are.”
— KC George
My teaching centers liberatory, radical pedagogy. I work with students to recognize their own agency and practice self-determination through creative choices, experimentation, and reflection.
05 — Teaching philosophy
01
Classrooms that mirror the practices of professional artists: independence, artistic thinking, and the creative process as the primary artifact of learning.
02
Teachers are cultural agents of social justice, with a role that reaches from the classroom to the statehouse and from the personal to the political.
03
Students can't fully learn unless they feel seen, valued, and loved. Belonging is the foundation of quality education, not a bonus.
04
School should be a place of learning and joy, where laughter, play, and limitless potential live alongside rigorous academic growth.
Every student who walks into my studio is already holding something worth building. My work is to give it dimension, scale, and a place in the light. I design curriculum as an artist: begin with a meaningful idea, test it through materials, listen to what the work reveals, and make room for revision. Ideation is making.
My approach is grounded in Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education, bell hooks' Engaged Pedagogy, and Universal Design for Learning: frameworks that center the whole child, including their identity, community, and lived experience. I design for every learner, especially those traditional systems have failed.
“The teacher's role is to prepare learners to be conscious cultural producers in their lived environments.”
— KC George
Social transformation happens when attitudes and values change. Teachers are uniquely positioned to shift cultural structures of oppression, not only through what they teach but through how they teach, who they center, and what they refuse to accept as inevitable. At its core, education is an act of hope.
06 — What's next