Paterson University in Wayne, New Jersey teaching preservice teachers arts-integration strategies in interdisciplinary teaching and learning. She is a recipient of a Fulbright-Hays study travel grant to Israel summer 2017. She holds a doctorate from the University of Texas, Austin in Curriculum and Instruction, a Master’s degree from Hunter College in New York in art history with a concentration in Islamic Art and a Bachelor’s degree from SUNY at Buffalo in art history. She has published extensively in the area of emergent bilingualism and the arts, arts-integration, STEAM pedagogies, visual culture, social justice and the arts, and global education.