San Diego, CA
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Jaima
Making different worlds accessible.
San Diego, CA
Making different worlds accessible.
About
Knowing what to ask & what’s relevant
I work at the intersection of learning, language, and strategy. For over a decade I've designed curriculum and administered Canvas LMS at San Diego State University. Alongside it, I ran content operations at a German EdTech startup, bridging two markets with different learning cultures, different languages, and different expectations of what good content looks like.
My background is in history and the African diaspora. I hold a Ph.D. from NYU. That training — how to find the right question, how to make a complex argument land for a general audience — runs through everything I do.
Work
Designed curriculum and administered Canvas LMS across German Studies courses for nine years. Led the department's Blackboard-to-Canvas transition. Awarded a grant from the Center for Inclusive Excellence for accessible course design.
First U.S. hire at an early-stage German EdTech startup. Led content strategy focused on making learning accessible across English and German-speaking markets. Built and owned quiz modules in the CMS. Coordinated a distributed team of writers, a voice actor, and a social creator. Contributed to growth from launch to 13K+ daily active users.
Provided research guidance and historical accuracy review to producers of a documentary film on race in America.
About the Film ↗Led editorial production end to end — shaping the content vision, editing contributor copy, and hosting a podcast series targeting millennial women.
Writing & Press
African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal · 2017
Hair, identity, and the politics of Black femininity in postwar Germany. Pages 269–280.
AACVR Germany
African American identity and intercultural dynamics in postwar Germany.
Tribe de Mama Magazine, Vol. 10: Femina · Managing Editor
Interview with the award-winning journalist, scholar, and author of Black Women's Lives — on womanist consciousness, the limits of mainstream feminism, and what it means to center Black women's stories.
Little Years, Berlin · auf Deutsch
Interview with the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Primates of Park Avenue and Untrue — on intensive mothering, women's sexuality, monogamy as social construct, and bodily autonomy. Published in German for a Berlin readership.
Little Years, Berlin · auf Deutsch
Reported personal essay from San Diego, October 2020 — on homeschool pods, the collapse of the middle class, and how the pandemic set women back a decade in the workplace. Written in German for a Berlin readership.
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