I speak at conferences, contribute to OWASP, and write practitioner research from a place most people in cybersecurity don't have access to: a full-time high school classroom. Below is what I'm working on now and what's next.
High school cybersecurity curricula were written before ChatGPT existed. Most still are. This talk introduces the Curriculum Patch framework, walks through a Red Team Model for teaching GenAI security to teenagers, and demos the Bank Heist Lab — a browser-based prompt injection exercise students can run on a school Chromebook.
Conference details ↗Expanding the NICE talk into a peer-reviewable practitioner paper. Documents the framework, the Red Team Model, and student outcomes from the Bank Heist Lab, with implementation guidance for other K-12 educators.
Contributing to the System Prompt Leakage workstream of the OWASP LLM Top 10. Bringing classroom evidence and student-tested attack examples into the working group's evolving guidance.
Pursuing a PhD focused on K-12 AI literacy and cybersecurity curriculum design. Stanford GSE, UC Berkeley, UCSD, with possible Michigan and Wisconsin-Madison. Applications due November 2026.
Open-source AP CSP, PLTW Cybersecurity, and CS Essentials worksheets with integrated English/Spanish supports for multilingual learners. A long-term project to make rigorous CS materials accessible across language backgrounds.
How K-12 CS and cyber programs can iteratively absorb GenAI, cloud, and AI security without throwing out the standards they're held to.
Teaching high schoolers to break LLMs on purpose — prompt injection, jailbreaks, system prompt leakage — and what they learn from it.
Translating the most important industry framework for AI security into language and labs that work in a 45-minute class period.
What it takes to teach rigorous cybersecurity to multilingual classrooms — and why MLL students are an underserved cyber pipeline.
For teachers without admin rights or budget. How to ship classroom labs on GitHub Pages that work on locked-down school networks.
What employers, NICE, and CISA actually want from high school cyber programs — and the gap between that and what most programs offer.
I speak at K-12 conferences, EdTech events, security industry conferences, district professional development days, and teacher training programs. In English or French.