Ari is a Junior Specialist with the Department of Educational Technology at University of Hawaii at Manoa. She has worked with the College of Education for the past seven years. She was the Outreach Manager for the Learning Enhancement Through Innovation (LEI Aloha) grant project funded by the US DOE's Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology Program. As Outreach Manager Ari managed a seven campus initiative to create "technology intensive" courses at UH. She also coordinated the professional development program and Technology Learning Center for the College of Education. Ari is currently teaching courses for the Department of Educational Technology at the graduate and undergraduate level.