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An Education Rescue Kit
Figuring out how to educate youth during a pandemic is a complicated mess. Anyone recently thrust into the role as a homeschooler or is a teacher managing their own children's needs in addition to their classroom is acutely and painfully aware. Today, I'm going to...
Change Your World
Want to change the world? I have some bad news. It’s a lot of work! It’s also a lot of listening and loads of grace and patience with your change partners. If you are changing even those smallest parts of your world, there’s a good chance you are embarking on new...
Change Strategy, The First Step
It’s been a week since my last blog post and the world is still managing lots of change brought about by the pandemic. Organizations with rigid, less agile models are now finding that they can, in fact, be flexible when given no choice. And that my friends, brings us...
Change Strategy
Watch me lead a group of dedicated youth workers through a service design sprint to connect students lacking access to technology to learning opportunities.
My Story
Hello! I'm Monica, and I suffer from a bad case of wanderlust. It permeates my entire life, not just the traveling bit. I've wandered through professions that have taken me from being a teacher in Kansas to program design in Kenya, East Africa. Returning to the US, I...
A Pandemic Product and The User Experience…
Just this morning I was reading a great interview with Steve Krug. He’s the guy that believes your experience on a website should help you get the thing you want to with the least amount of effort and thinking. He even wrote a book about it, called Don’t Make Me...