Papia Bawa, Ph.D., is the Program Coordinator and Lead Faculty for the Graduate Instructional Design Program at SUNY Brockport. She has more than fifteen years of experience in remote teaching and instructional designing. Her research interests focus on technology integration into curriculum designs and include transformative technologies (game-based, mixed realities, machine learning), remote learning environments, and cultural competence through a technology lens. Her publications include a wide range of articles in high-impact journals.