About

Hi! Bonjour! Hola!

I’m local to Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal (settler), of Jewish descent (mixed Ashkenazi and Sephardic), and born in Tkaronto/Toronto, yet grew up in Madrid, Spain.

I’m a multi-faceted designer focusing on relational learning and community technology education, and I reflect on my practice through a justice-oriented lens. My work background covers 15+ years of professional experience, including organizational development and team leadership, systemic design education, popular education¹ program design, interdisciplinary product design, and organizational strategy. Specifically, these experiences include:

• 3 years in higher education, recently, seeding and co-facilitating multiple communities of practice and developing open educational resources; and previously, designing and facilitating learning experiences to empower students to address complex challenges with a systemic design approach²;
• 6 years in the nonprofit sector designing community technology education³ programs while building an organization focused on digital justice, digital literacy and digital creativity;
• 7 years in the private sector leading applied research and development (hyperspectral technology, data analysis and geoscience).

In my practice, I think strategically and systemically and attend to multiple (and silent) perspectives. I try to listen deeply and openly share ideas while bridging across sectors.

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Footnotes

1. Popular education is alternative or non-formal education to empower people regardless of their educational background.
2. The design approach I have explored with students is inspired by the activities and language from the guide Beyond Net Zero: A Systemic Approach (British Design Council, 2021).
3. I am deeply influenced by the Teaching Community Technology Handbook (Detroit Digital Justice Coalition, 2015). Although much of my work was carried out with public libraries and public schools rather than directly involving communities, the purpose and principles in the work were intentionally aligned with transforming, uplifting, and empowering communities through the use and learning of technologies.

Affiliations

Current

• Member of Drawing Board Collective (Nov 2015 – present).
• Member of Design Justice Network Instructional Design Working Group (Apr 2021 – present).
• Educational Development Community in Canada (2023 – present)

Past

• Board member of Centre for Community Organizations (COCo; 2015-2022).
• COCo is a charitable organization whose mission is the support the health and well-being of community organizations in Quebec, with a particular focus on bolstering and amplifying the voices of grassroots organizations. Supported the development of its theory of change, the evolution of its community technology and communication services, and a period of growth and mission transition.
• Member of the democratic life committee of Solon (2020-2021).
• Solon is a non-profit whose mission is to inspire and support citizen action through local projects to create lively, solidary and ecological neighbourhoods.
• Board member of the Montreal Urban Ecology Centre (MUEC ; 2015).
• MUEC is a charitable organization whose mission is to propose practices and policies for creating ecological, democratic and healthy cities.

Abridged CV

🛠️ Current work

⌛ Past work experience (selected)

📚 Education (selected)