Fall 2025 office hours: by appointment
Current courses: CHDV 3000 Child Development Research Methods and Critical Analysis, CHDV 3430 Child and Adolescent Cognition, CHDV 3730 Asian Americans, Families, and Community, CHDV 4960 Senior Seminar
Biosketch
I earned my Ph.D. from the School of Teaching and Learning at The Ohio State University, specializing in early childhood education and child development. Before joining CSULA, I worked as a journalist and magazine editor, an afterschool program teacher, a teaching and research assistant in higher education, a preschool teacher, and a postdoctoral fellow. My research focuses on evaluating program effectiveness across diverse educational settings. Beyond my academic work, I am actively involved in serving the local Asian American community and the Indigenous community in Taiwan. My teaching interests include early childhood education, research methods in child and family studies, children–family–community relations, Asian American issues, cognitive development, service learning, and senior seminar.
RESEARCH
My research focuses on program assessment in a variety of settings, such as the professional development of preservice/inservice teachers and family child care providers in the higher education setting, early childhood education, ECE STEM curriculum, and service-learning courses in higher education.
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
Ph.D. Child development, 1999
- School of Teaching & Learning, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio