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Article
2025
Student-Led Institutional Change for Diversity and Inclusion: Insights From the Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) Ambassador Program
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Journal of Diversity in Higher Education
. 18:995-1000.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1037/dhe0000618
Web of Science:
001369790300001
2025
Staying Resolute in a World Without DEI: A Call for National, Cross-Role, and Institutional Solidarity in the Wake of a DEI Backlash
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Advances in Engineering Education
. 12:2-6.
2024
The Impact of a Community of Practice Scholarship Program on Students' Computing Identity
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ACM Transactions on Computing Education
. 24.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1145/3623615
Web of Science:
001193671100008
2024
Continuity and Communication Across an Epistemologically Heterogenous Research Community: A Response to Kellam and Jennings (2021)
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Studies in Engineering Education
. 5:157-166.
Full Text via DOI:
10.21061/see.162
2023
Reflections on problems of educational practice in a project course design for professional authenticity, cultural relevance, and sociotechnical integration
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European Journal of Engineering Education
. 48:1015-1036.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1080/03043797.2023.2201182
Web of Science:
000985331100001
2023
What Research Can DO: Rethinking Qualitative Research Designs to Promote Change Towards Equity and Inclusion
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Studies in Engineering Education
. 4:26-45.
2021
The social construction of professional shame for undergraduate engineering students
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Journal of Engineering Education
. 110:861-884.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1002/jee.20419
Web of Science:
000690690900001
2021
Contextualizing the Past to Guide the Future: Situating Three Critical Theoretical Frameworks for Educational Culture
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Studies in Engineering Education
. 1:156.
Full Text via DOI:
10.21061/see.51
2021
Positionality practices and dimensions of impact on equity research: A collaborative inquiry and call to the community
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Journal of Engineering Education
. 110:19-43.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1002/jee.20377
Web of Science:
000614913300001
2021
When Critical Ethnography Leaves the Field and Enters the Engineering Classroom: A Scoping Review
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Studies in Engineering Education
. 2:35-52.
Full Text via DOI:
10.21061/see.26
2019
Making the Familiar Strange: An Ethnographic Scholarship of Integration Contextualizing Engineering Educational Culture as Masculine and Competitive
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Engineering Studies
. 11:196-216.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1080/19378629.2019.1663200
Web of Science:
000486660600001
2019
Description and mixed methods evaluation of a novel hardware-based introductory programming course
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Advances in Engineering Education
. 7.
2018
Supporting the Narrative Agency of a Marginalized Engineering Student
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Journal of Engineering Education
. 107:186-218.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1002/jee.20201
Web of Science:
000441247000003
2018
Zooming Out from the Struggling Individual Student: An Account of the Cultural Construction of Engineering Ability in an Undergraduate Programming Class
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Journal of Engineering Education
. 107:56-86.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1002/jee.20191
Web of Science:
000428434700005
2009
Testing the limits: Quantifying the degradation of automatic speech recognition in reverberant environments.
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Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
. 126:2218-2218.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1121/1.3248830
Book Chapter
2023
Critical and Cultural Analysis of Engineering Learning
. 199-217.
Full Text via DOI:
10.4324/9781003287483-12
2022
Who Engineering Includes Impacts How Engineers Work
. 1884-1903.
Full Text via DOI:
10.4018/978-1-6684-2405-6.ch093
2021
Who Engineering Includes Impacts How Engineers Work
. 224-248.
Full Text via DOI:
10.4018/978-1-7998-4745-8.ch008
Conference
2024
A Liberatory Co-Curricular Program for Engineering Students: Investigating Impacts and Limitations Through Alumni Perspectives
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ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings
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2024
A Narrative Exploration of Two Post-Traditional Students in Undergraduate Engineering Education
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ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings
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2024
Audio Narratives as a Way of Voicing Marginalized Student Experience
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ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings
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2024
Board 189: A Mentor's Reflection on Challenges of Practice in a Scholarship Program for Lower-Income Computing Students
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ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings
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2024
Board 195: Amplifying Voices for Change: Exploring Faculty Insights on Student Audio Narratives Through Focus Group Discussions
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ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings
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2024
Expanding the Broadening Participation in Engineering Focus to Include Data on Nontraditional Students
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ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings
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2024
From Mind Full to Mindful: Proposing Mindfulness as a Proactive Strategy for Safeguarding Mental Health in Engineering Education
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ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings
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2024
Impact of Undergraduate Teaching Assistants (UTAs) on Gender-inclusive Student Engagement in an Introductory Computer Programming Course
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ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings
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2024
Shifts in Perceptions of Career Pathways: The Impact of an S-STEM Program on Lower-Income Computing Students
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ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings
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2024
Creating Audio Narratives of Engineering Students’ Figured Worlds as a Mechanism for Enabling Responsive Education (Poster 42)
Full Text via DOI:
10.3102/ip.24.2104106
2024
Empowering Students in Learning Engineering and Design: Ethical and Transformative Pedagogy for a Socially Conscious Future
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Proceedings of International Conference of the Learning Sciences, ICLS
. 2029-2036.
Full Text via DOI:
10.22318/icls2024.647082
2024
Minoritized Student Audio Narratives to Influence Faculty’s Empathic Understanding: Learning from Sophie and Enola
2024
Unveiling FlitGap's Program Success for Increasing Non-Dominant Group Participation in Computer Science Disciplines
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Proceedings of International Conference of the Learning Sciences, ICLS
. 2265-2266.
Full Text via DOI:
10.22318/icls2024.768289
2023
Board 220: Audio for Inclusion: Broadening Participation in Engineering Through Audio Dissemination of Marginalized Students' Narratives
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ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings
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2023
Factors Affecting the Future Career Pathway Decisions of Lower-income Computing Students
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ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings
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2023
Identity Dilemmas, Cultural Homelessness and Intersectionality: A Discourse Analysis of the Experiences of a Female Undergraduate International and Transracial Adoptee in Engineering (Research)
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ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings
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2023
Narratives of Identity Coherence and Separation in the Figured Worlds of Undergraduate Engineering Education
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ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings
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2023
The Danger of a Single Story: A Critical and Holistic Account of Rachel's Experience in Computing for Broadening Participation
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ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings
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2023
Board 391: Supporting and Understanding Undergraduates' Computing Pathways Through the Flit-GAP S-STEM Program
Full Text via DOI:
10.18260/1-2--43105
2023
Comparing the Narratives of Two LGBTQ+ Undergraduate Engineering Students at a Hispanic Serving Institution
2022
Audio Dissemination for Qualitative and Broadening Participation Research: Lessons Learned and Future Possibilities
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ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings
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2022
Future Career Pathway Perceptions of Lower-Income Computing Students Through the Lens of Capital Exchange
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ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings
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2022
Challenging the Hegemonic Culture of Engineering: Curricular and Co-Curricular Methodologies
2022
The New Normal: Student Perspectives on Supportive University Policies during COVID and Beyond
2021
Understanding Non-Traditional Students in Engineering and Computing (Work in Progress)
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ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings
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2021
Including Alice: Uncovering the Narrative of One Student's Experience at the Intersection of International Student Status and Mental Health
2021
Developing a Survey for Engineering Faculty Knowledge and Interest in Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Topics
Full Text via DOI:
10.1109/FIE49875.2021.9637133
Web of Science:
000821947700024
2020
Expectations in engineering programs-Between social construction and internalized experience
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ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings
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2020
How to be a graduate student (Before I Forget): A collection of experiential wisdom
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ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings
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2020
Towards a Framework for Equity in Engineering Classrooms
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Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE
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Web of Science:
000646660800123
2019
Shame in engineering: Unpacking the expectations that students co-construct and live within
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ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings
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2019
Studying smartness in engineering culture: An interdisciplinary dialogue
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ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings
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2019
Board 67: Shame in Engineering: Unpacking the Expectations that Students Co-Construct and Live Within
Full Text via DOI:
10.18260/1-2--32402
2019
Smartness in Engineering Culture: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue
Full Text via DOI:
10.18260/1-2--33272
2019
Dilemmas in Co-curricular support: A theoretical and pragmatic discussion on current practice and future challenges
2019
To be or not to be: A dialogic discussion of two researchers' hidden and transitioning identities
2019
Examining the socio-psychological phenomenon of shame in engineering with coupled interpretive methods
. 824-826.
2018
Examining a novel theory-to-practice effort in engineering education through multiple theoretical lenses of systems and change
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ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings
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2018
Shame amid academic success: An interpretative phenomenological analysis case study of a student's experience with emotions in engineering
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ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings
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2018
Shame in engineering: Unpacking the socio-psychological emotional construct in the context of professional formation
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ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings
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2018
Board 59: Shame in Engineering: Unpacking the Socio-Psychological Emotional Construct in the Context of Professional Formation
Full Text via DOI:
10.18260/1-2--30066
2018
New directions from theory: Implications for diversity support from the theories of intersectionality and liberatory pedagogy
2018
Butting Heads: Competition and Posturing in a Paired Programming Team
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Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE
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Web of Science:
000468396901022
2017
Putting diversity in perspective: A critical cultural historical context for representation in engineering
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ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings
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2017
Rethinking engineering pathways: An exploration of the diverse K-12 school experiences of six black engineering undergraduates
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ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings
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2017
Traditional versus hardware-driven introductory programming courses: A comparison of student identity, efficacy and success
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ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings
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2017
Board # 84 : Traditional versus Hardware-driven Introductory Programming Courses: a Comparison of Student Identity, Efficacy and Success
Full Text via DOI:
10.18260/1-2--27939
2016
"Turning away" from the struggling individual student: An account of the cultural construction of engineering ability in an undergraduate programming class
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ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings
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2016
An application-based learning approach to C programming concepts and methods for engineers
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ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings
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2015
Theorizing can contribute to marginalized students' agency in engineering persistence.
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ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings
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Other Scholarly Work
2023
On the importance of (white) humility: Epistemological decentering as a positional orientation toward research
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Journal of Engineering Education
. 258-261.
Full Text via DOI:
10.1002/jee.20508
Web of Science:
000956146000001
Research
principal investigator on
CAREER: Using Equity Metrics and Reflective Engagement to Transform Engineering Classrooms Towards Racial Equity
awarded by
National Science Foundation
2023 - 2028
HSI Implementation and Evaluation Project: JEDI Ambassadors: Empowering Undergraduate Engineers towards Inclusive Institutional Change Through Research and Organizing
awarded by
National Science Foundation
2023 - 2027
Audio for Inclusion: Uncovering Marginalized Student Narratives to Provide Insight to Faculty on the Known Unknowns of Inclusion
awarded by
National Science Foundation
2021 - 2025
co-principal investigator on
Grant
HSI Institutional Transformation Project Voces (Voices for Organizing Change in Educational Systems)
awarded by
National Science Foundation
2022 - 2027
Supporting the Whole Student: Identifying and Mitigating Barriers to Persistence for Underserved Post-Traditional Engineering Students
awarded by
National Science Foundation
2023 - 2026
Collaborative Research: Florida IT Graduation Attainment Pathways (Flit-GAP)
awarded by
National Science Foundation
2021 - 2026
JEDI Audio for Inclusion
awarded by
National Science Foundation
2022 - 2023
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