I am currently the Interim Director of the Math and Science Bureau with the New Mexico Public Education Department.
Before joining the NM PED in April 2017, I taught in Gallup, New Mexico as a middle school science and math teacher for seven years. My teaching career started in 2007, after graduating from the University of South Carolina with a BS in Biology, I joined the US Peace Corps service and was stationed in the Mountain Kingdom of Lesotho. There, I taught middle school and high school mathematics and science for two years. After completing my Peace Corps service, I attended Western New Mexico University in Gallup and graduated in 2013 with a MS in Secondary Education.