Monica Marlo Martinez Gallagher (aka Monica Marlo M-G) (she/they) is an Innovation Technologist and Immedgineer, or Immersive Education Engineer, with Portland Community College in Oregon. She earned a Master’s Degree of Education from Western Governors University in Learning & Technology focusing on ‘The Effect of Avatar Co-Presence in Multi User Virtual Environments On Learning Communities in Distance Education’ (2008). An avid explorer of technology+art and its intersection with human performance improvement and engagement, she helps co-coordinate the Oregon Community Colleges Distance Learning Association Emergent Technology Workgroup, and is our current chair of NWXR EDU. At PCC, she helps internal teams collectively foster our improved service to student goals by coordinating the multi-department Media Tactics Committee, and our blooming Artificial Intelligence Online Learning Investigators (AIOLI) workgroup.
She also helps empower innovative faculty instructional technology exploration projects by administering PCC’s Techquity Grants program. In balance to too much screen time, she stand up paddleboards on rivers, lakes and the ocean, hikes with her family and two dogs, and writes hapa-haole (mixed Hawaiian and English language) ukulele music to honor her hometown roots on Hawai’i island- Kona, no ka ‘oi!
