Aaron is an Instructional Designer for Edson College of Nursing and Health Innovation at Arizona State University. He studied foreign languages in Japan and lived abroad in East Asia as an English language instructor. Upon returning to the U.S. he took up graduate studies in Learning Sciences and Distance Education at the University of New Mexico. Now, he enjoys consulting on innovative course design solutions for higher education.

Aaron's hobbies include music composition and performance. He attended the Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts and studied jazz peformance. He continues to play live shows and record original music. Check out his Soundcloud.com page to hear more.

In his spare time, Aaron enjoys studying the Japanese language. He minored in Japanese as an undergraduate student and studied East Asian languages, religion, and art during a nine-month study abroad at Kansai Gaidai university in Kyoto, Japan.