Teaching

20+ Years of teaching and guest lecturing in classes, incubators and executive education:

• University of Texas at Austin
• University of Southern California
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Harvard University

Subjects taught range from media studies, communications, journalism, cinema, marketing, public relations, gender and media, digital media and learning, ethics and literacy.

University of Texas at Austin

• Designed and launched a new specialization in the School of Advertising & Public Relations, Texas Immersive
• UT Admissions - Be a Longhorn Campaign (2019 - Present)
  • Prospective Student Mailer
  • Campus Augmented Reality Tour
• Instructor of multiple courses each year
  • Audience Development & Engagement
  • Experimental Storytelling
  • Immersive HackLab
  • Immersive Experience

Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia
​Visiting Scholar, 2016
Publicly present The Edison Project research as well as Individual and group meetings to share expertise in engagement, transmedia storytelling, play and learning.
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University of Southern California

• CRUNCH Incubator 2010 - 2016
• Small Business Series 2015
• News Idea Incubator 2011
• Executive Education
  • Designed Executive Education Program on The Edison Project.
  • Shanghai Media Group
  • Jiangsu Broadcasting
• Mentored multiple students through Directed Research.
• Guest Lecturer in multiple classes each year
  • Advanced Journalism for Mobile and Emerging Platforms
  • Business and Professional Communication
  • CTCS 482 Transmedia Entertainment
  • Cinema Interactive Media Forum
  • COMM 306: Innovation Entertainment and the Arts
  • CMGT 533: Emerging Communication Technologies
  • JOUR 592 Specialized Journalism: Reporting the Arts

MIT / Comparative Media Studies

• Gender and Media Course: Beyond the 3rd Wave 2009
• Visiting Lecturer at Comparative Media Studies
• Teaching Assistant for Media in Cultural Context 2008
• Worked closely with students in developing their final projects exemplifying the New Media Literacies in the form of a Learning Library challenge.
• Taught the Digital Media and Ethics class.

Harvard University “Project Zero Institute” 2008
Project Zero Institute Faculty

• Co-Taught Digital Media and Ethics course with GoodPlay Project.

International Film and Television Workshops / Rockport College 1998 - 2003
Adjunct Film Faculty

• Taught Professional Development, positioning young adults to enter the film/television business.
• Taught editing software programs, Avid Media Composer, Final Cut Pro and Edit DV.
• Taught aesthetics of editing.

Art Institute of Dallas 1996 - 1998
Full-time Faculty Member; School of Media Arts

• Developed curriculum for the Video and Multimedia departments.
• Organized curriculum for video program during accreditation process.
• Taught Electronic Field Production, Image Manipulation, Lighting for Video, Videography, Intro to Editing, Scriptwriting and Nonlinear Post – AVID 101