Hi, I’m Daniel. I believe in the transformative power of a well designed learning experience. Education doesn’t just occur inside of classrooms– education is the limitless way we learn together. For the first half of my professional life, I directed an arts-based public health program for young people in Brooklyn. I was also a storyteller and performance poet, including being a National Poetry Slam Champion, and an Artist in Residence at UC Santa Barbara.

Stemming from my work with youth and my poetry, I became fascinated with the ability that technology presented to communicate big ideas and be harnessed for transformative learning– so I taught myself how to code! I went on to receive my Master’s in Interactive Telecommunications at NYU, synthesizing my work at the intersections of Art, Education, and Technology.

“Daniel’s work is imbued with compassion. His favor for clear communication stands out as an unparalleled technical skill. He cherishes the gift of learning a new idea, something quite apparent in the teaching materials he developed at Codecademy. It is also obvious by having a conversation with him, something I cannot recommend enough.

Daniel developed inter-team communication systems that continue to be vital and built some of the most valuable products in the Codecademy catalog. He is intelligent, capable, and empathetic. He would be a valuable asset to any team.”

Timothy Mullen
Team Lead, Codecademy

Working with Vidcode I collaboratively designed and independently developed standards aligned creative coding curriculum for grades 5-12.

The pedagogical framework of the curriculum focuses on empowering students to learn to use code to express themselves and develop a deeper understanding of who they are in the world.

I also contributed to the Vidcode Hour of Code tutorial which had over 200,000 visits during National Computer Science Week.

Pictured here are some of the activities I designed on the Vidcode platform. 

Working in the English department at UC Santa Barbara, I taught a class called The Poetics of Struggle. The class was offered to undergraduate and graduate students, as well as members of the local community.

The class focused on the ways that language is used as an intervention in reality and included students writing and performing their own poetry in addition to the study of poetry and language in a historical context.

See the syllabus for the class by clickinghere.