Singer-songwriter, scholar, university professor.

I care about whether a person feels seen while they are learning — in a classroom, or in whatever they are working out about themselves, spiritually or emotionally. I love to connect, to transmit, and to co-construct. I do that through teaching, research, singing, and songwriting.

I am an Assistant Professor at the Institut des Sciences de l'Éducation, Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique, trained at Harvard (EdM 2015, PhD 2022). My research in Morocco is on multilingual learning, early childhood quality, teacher education, and the role of the arts in education. I advise international organizations, ministries, and education foundations on the same questions.

I wrote songs for voice and guitar between 2015 and 2020 — to feel more connected to who I am, and to heal wounds. Cordelia was the project of arranging them with professional musicians, and the album How it Began came out of that work in 2021.

In The Listening Room I hold listening sessions built around voice — an hour, online or in person in Rabat.