Youth-Centered Advocacy, Innovation, & Humane Technology
Designing equitable systems and digital futures that put young people at the center.
Overview
I work with youth, educators, and community leaders to co-create programs, policies, and digital environments that reflect the lived realities and aspirations of young people. This work blends human-centered design, youth advocacy, and digital wellbeing strategies to address inequities in education, technology, and social systems.
At its core, this is about designing with, not for — building trust, centering lived experience, and ensuring that youth are co-architects of the systems that shape their lives. Whether reimagining sex education, building civic imagination curricula, or influencing humane technology practices, the goal is to create structures that safeguard dignity, wellbeing, and agency.
Selected Projects
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FreeState Justice and One Love - Inclusive Sex Ed Curriculum
Partnered with LGBTQ+ youth and advocates to reimagine sex and healthy relationships education through participatory co-design, ensuring cultural relevance and rights-affirming practices
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ReThink Citizen - Youth Innovation & Civic Imagination Cirriculum
Developed a future-focused protopian curriculum equipping youth with systems thinking, foresight, imagination capacity building, and advocacy tools to address complex social challenges
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Brio - Storytelling for Social Change in Education
Designed narrative and media strategies to strengthen youth mental health programming in schools, centering local voices and cultural contexts
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For You Page - Trauma-Informed Digital Youth Research
Leading qualitative research on how young changemakers navigate and transform online spaces to foster wellbeing, collective action, and digital safety
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Youth Civic Storytelling Campaigns
Supported the execution of a national youth-driven initiatives using storytelling and digital media to connect young people to history, civic identity, and democratic participation
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Beeck Center & Akazi Kanoze Access - Youth-Centered Social Impact Innovation
Creating culturally grounded wellbeing and employability resources for youth cohorts with Rwandan educators.
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HoyaWell - Student Wellbeing Infrastructure Advocacy
Collaborated with student leaders to advocate for campus policies and initiatives that embed belonging and mental health support into institutional systems at Georgetown University
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Healing Higher Education
Translating research into frameworks for trauma-informed, intergenerational systems change in education
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Narratives of Connection
Exploring how collective storytelling can rekindle social bonds and civic hope in a time of disconnection.
Publications
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The Digital Crossroads: Media Literacy and the Future of Youth online
PLOS Digital Health
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Why It’s Easier to Joke About the Apocalypse Than Imagine a Better Community
Timeleft
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“Ecological Belonging: Weaving People, Purpose and Planet”
Network of Wellbeing
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Transforming Higher Education: Building Trauma-Informed Communities for Healing and Intergenerational Wellbeing
The ADVANCE OSU Journal - Vol. 5, Issue 1, 2024
Media Features
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The Journey Framework
Georgetown University Red House
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Navigating Generative AI and Youth Social Connection Through Intergenerational Conversation
Foundation for Social Connection
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Georgetown Expands Commitment to Mental Health Services for University Community
Georgetown University Press Release
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FreeState Justice/One Love Instagram Live Highlights Inclusive Curriculum
FreeState Justice and One Love Collaboration
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The With Intention Podcast
Episode: Media Literacy and Artificial Intimacy with Kendall Bryant and Hannah Folau