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My LinkedIn Bio:
I serve as an adjunct faculty member and senior academic advisor at the Johns Hopkins School of Education, a Healthy Living instructor for the Greater Houston YMCA, the founder, producer, singer, songwriter, and performer of Girl Friday Music, and an educational content creator.
I hold a Bachelor of Arts in Education from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, a Master of Liberal Arts from the Johns Hopkins University Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, and a Doctor of Education from the Johns Hopkins University School of Education with a specialization in Mind, Brain, and Teaching.
My fitness affiliations and specialties include professional membership in the American College of Sports Medicine, group exercise and personal training certifications from the National Academy of Sports Medicine/Athletic and Fitness Association of America, Zibrio Balance Specialist, Functional Aging Institute Brain Health Trainer, Antigravity Aerial Yoga, Barre, Pilates trainer, Balletone-Barre Above trainer, Midlife Fitness for Women Specialist, Franklin Method Pelvis Fascia Trainer, and a course certificate in Exercise for Mental Health: Evidence and Application offered by Dr. Brendon Stubbs, a top 0.1% globally ranked researcher in mental health/neuroscience and clinical-academic physiotherapist specializing in mental health research.
My research and practice focus on creatively integrating cognitive, affective, and social neuroscience into embodied teaching practices to promote sustainable exercise and physical activity behaviors that support various dimensions of well-being, including physical, emotional, cognitive, social, and lifestyle.
I’m currently working on publishing a case study about my Brain-Body Fitness Framework (B-BFF © 2022). The B-BFF is a neuroeducation initiative designed to integrate research from the learning and neurosciences with educational practices in exercise instruction.
Grounded in enactivism and neuroscience research, the B-BFF serves as a prototype for integrating affect into the current ‘bipartite’ prescription model of exercise instruction (i.e., safe and effective), thereby creating a ‘tripartite’ model that is safe, effective, and affective. Utilizing research in core affect, emotion construction, memory formation, and decision-making, an affective approach expands our understanding of the relationship between the moving body, the brain, and the environment.
Notably, a neuro-education lens offers new insights into why sustaining physical activity is difficult and provides a practical, actionable, no-cost framework for reimagining how we think about, instruct, and practice sustainable (hint: enjoyable!) physical activity and exercise behaviors.
