Where ideas take shape.
Ideas become more useful when we can see how they operate in the world. These projects explore the relationship between technology, communication, learning, and access to opportunity.
A learning community people can return to
Nevada Partners Virtual Community Learning Center
A scheduled workshop gives people a place to begin. I wanted to help create a learning environment they could continue using afterward.
Through TechStart's work with Nevada Partners, we launched the Virtual Community Learning Center in March 2024. It brought courses, recorded lessons, business resources, and community participation into a shared digital environment.
The project connected the work happening in physical classrooms and community spaces with a place people could return to online.
For me, the lesson was about continuity. A useful learning environment gives people opportunities to revisit material, keep working on their ideas, and stay connected as their needs develop.
Social Innovation Award
Desert Forge Ventures & UNLV Office of Economic Development · 2026
Connecting a public conversation to practical help
Make Homes Possible
At Homie, I helped co-found and facilitate the Coalition to Make Homes Possible, bringing community organizations, housing counselors, and other partners together around the Black homeownership gap in Southern Nevada.
The work connected public education and campaign outreach with existing counseling and homeownership resources. My contribution included partnership coordination, marketing, and producing and co-hosting educational conversations.
The experience deepened my understanding of trust. Community leaders brought relationships and knowledge that shaped how the effort developed.
It also reinforced a practical lesson: when we invite people into a conversation about opportunity, we should give them a clear way to continue that conversation and find relevant support.
Emerging Business of the Year
Vegas Chamber · October 27, 2021
Making a destination meaningful to new audiences
Air Malta and Switch
At Switch in Malta, I worked on an international campaign introducing Air Malta's new destinations to audiences across multiple markets.
The work brought together client coordination, digital advertising, and a broader destination story. It required thinking carefully about what would make Malta relevant to people encountering it from different places and perspectives.
That experience continues to inform how I approach campaigns: understand the audience's starting point, find the part of the story that matters to them, and make the experience coherent across the places they encounter it.
What becomes visible in what people go on to do.
Some of the most meaningful outcomes become visible in what people go on to do after a class, a campaign, or a conversation.
When learners become teachers
Through TechStart and Promise Startups, I've seen people move from participating in learning experiences to creating them for others. One Promise Startups participant attended multiple classes and later taught his own digital marketing series. Business and nonprofit leaders I trained went on to teach their teams. Youth leaders went on to teach high school students. These experiences shape how I think about access — knowledge becomes more valuable when people can adapt it, share it, and build on it.
What learning can mean in someone's life
Digital marketing students I taught later secured roles in marketing and office administration. I have also worked with students who had experienced homelessness and subsequently moved into stable housing. Those milestones belong to them. My contribution was instruction, coaching, and practical support as they worked toward their own goals. Their progress gives personal meaning to the work of digital equity.
Letting learners help shape the classroom
Students have asked me to connect what we were learning more closely to the issues they cared about. In response, I organized classes that applied program skills to community organizing. I also taught learners to use AI to investigate their own questions. That experience reinforced the value of listening during the learning process — participants bring knowledge about their lives, communities, and priorities that can make the work more relevant.
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