Meet the team
Learn a little about the wonderful team behind the IgnitED Labs
Leadership
Ashlee Bishop
Educational Technology Champion Lead
Major: Digital Culture (B.A)
Ashlee's skills are focused in design and content creation. She specializes in Adobe Suite software, often leading the creation of the IgnitED Labs' multimedia content.
Sean M. Leahy, Ph.D.
Director, Technology Initiatives MLF Teachers College
Dr. Sean M. Leahy is an international technologist, futurist, and educator serving as the Director of Technology Initiatives within the Office of Scholarship and Innovation in the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University. He is the founding director of the IgnitED Labs, an innovative emerging technology laboratory at ASU. His scholarly focus is on the futures of educational technology, emerging technologies, and media production.
Cassandra Kellaris
Technology Strategist
As a Design Strategist, Cassandra collaborates with education partners to empower them as designers as a means of tackling complex challenges they may face in their schools, communities, and related systems. Always a teacher at heart, Cassandra’s background is in environmental education, Expeditionary Learning, and STEM education. She has five years of classroom teaching experience, and four years of district-level leadership experience. Outside of work, she loves creating in the kitchen and hanging with her husband, son, and two rescued cattle dogs.
Educational Technology Champions
Sabrina Cervantes Villa
Educational Technology Champion Lead
Major: Human Systems Engineering (M.S.)
Sabrina's expertise is in the application of experimental research findings to various forms of educational technology and systems. She's applied these skills to the Lab's internal processes and documentation. She also creates video content for the Labs.
Jeffrey Derrick
Educational Technology Champion
Major: Electrical Engineering (BSE)
Jeffrey's skills in the lab are focused primarily around presentation and engagement. Within the lab, he works on document creation and engages with EDT students to talk about the lab's offerings.
Ashley Goernitz
Educational Technology Champion Lead
Major: Computer Science (M.C.S)
Ashley's skills are focused in techology and computer programming. She has used these skills to help support visitor understanding of technology through video creation.
Miguel Melo
Educational Technology Champion
Major: Applied Computing (B.S)
Miguel's skills are mainly oriented towards video-editing and document creation. Within the Labs, these skills are used for the creation of guides and tutorials on various technologies found in the Lab.