I am an early childhood teacher and arts-based educational researcher interested in whose learning gets framed as creative and why. Learning from children about the relationality of play across different educational contexts in New York City has led me to working with P.S. 10K, Brooklyn Children’s Museum, Brooklyn Public Library, Imani House, Blue School, CAMBA, DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture and Open Source Gallery/Koko. I’m currently pursuing an MSEd in early childhood education at Brooklyn College, The City University of New York (CUNY). My research interests include arts-based research and learning, cultural psychology, creative justice, citational politics, the Reggio Emilia Approach and picture books. My artistic research into the role of creative processes in knowledge-making—as well as in questioning knowledge elitism—has been exhibited in contemporary art exhibitions like “Oh, it is easy to be clever if one does not know all these questions” (Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, UK). I presented on the connections between arts-based research and citational politics at “To Research or Not To Research in the Post-Disciplinary Academy?” and at “Affinities + Urgencies in Language-based Artistic Research”, as well as on artist biofiction in children’s picture books at College Art Association and early intercorporeality at New York City’s Art of Play and Wonderment Conference. I’ve been a scholar-in-residence at the New York Public Library and an artist-in-residence at the Gowanus E-Waste Warehouse. My written work has been published in Performance Research and Ateliér, my translations by Calypso Editions and the University of Chicago Press. My writing was cited in Teaching and Learning the Arts in Higher Education with Technology (Springer, 2021). My article “All-American Siddhartha: Whitewashing Buddha’s Childhood,” in collaboration with the Critical Childhoods and Youth Studies Collective (CCYSC), can be found here. My article “Artistic Research as Citational Practice” was recently published by Acta Academiae Artium Vilnensis; my article “Creative Documentation: Making My Research Lens Visible” by Innovations in Early Education: The International Reggio Emilia Exchange.