My name is Callie Dominique Karlsson Speer, and this site has been around in one form or another since the misty haze of 2000.

• Education: I have a PhD in Education and an MS in Sociology. I enjoy learning and hope to never stop.
• Research: I have been exploring questions of meaning making, including cognitive structures, language, and narrative in the context of education abroad. I'm also interested in digital storytelling and journaling/sketchnoting as a means of agency and self-expression in a modern world.
• Professional: I have been working in international education as part of higher education and the private sector since 2007. I studied abroad, taught English, and now have had the honor of leading student groups to Japan as part of a co-designed class on self-identity. The old classic LinkedIn has more details if you are curious.
• Site: Sproutlight is lovingly hand-coded using html, css, a tiny bit of php, and lightbox. There are easier ways to do it, but I hand code for the same reason people keep a garden: I like to get the code under my fingernails.
• Online: I am most active on this blog (including the connected page on micro.blog) and on Mastodon. Once in a blue moon, I also post on Instagram.

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