April Ursula Fox is currently a grant specialist at the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs within the College of Education, where she supports faculty and research teams in developing, coordinating, and securing funding for innovative educational projects. Her work emphasizes collaboration, creative problem-solving, and alignment between research design and broader institutional and community goals.

She is also a doctoral candidate in educational psychology at UNLV, having previously earned her M.S. in educational psychology from the same institution. Her research explores how learning unfolds as an embodied, relational, and performatic process—particularly within informal and underserved environments such as museums, community gatherings, and creative workshops. Grounded in constructivist, post-constructivist, and post-humanist traditions, her work examines how agency, culture, and multimodal expression shape learning and identity beyond traditional classroom settings.

Her current research advances the Performatic Learning Framework, which conceptualizes creative practices, such as zine-making, as tools for meaning-making, reflection, and epistemic authorship. Through this lens, April investigates how learners claim, express, and transform knowledge in spaces that value creativity, embodiment, and cultural voice.

April’s teaching and scholarly practice bridge educational psychology, design thinking, and creative pedagogy, reimagining how learning environments can support reflection, agency, and transformation. Her broader interests include experiential learning, metacognition, epistemic agency, and the affective dimensions of cognition. Outside academia, she continues to create zines and other artistic projects, using creative expression as a way to explore the intersections of education, culture, and self-authorship.

April is a published author whose work spans technical, creative, and academic genres. Her book, Social Media Analytics Strategy: Using Data to Optimize Business Performance (Apress, 2022), reflects her expertise in analytics and the strategic use of data. She has also authored works such as the fantasy series "Goblins! of the Neverending Lands" and the anthology "STTAR – Storytelling with Tarot," which explore narrative, myth, and multimodal expression. Additionally, her master’s thesis The Experience of Self-Coherence: Self-Coherence as the Hub of All Needs (UNLV, 2021) investigates identity, meaning-making, and self-narrative in educational psychology. Her creative publishing also includes ZAZAZINE, a self-published zine series that exemplifies her ongoing engagement with zine-making as both artistic practice and pedagogical inquiry. Across these works, April’s publications reflect a unique intersection of data analytics, creativity, and educational research—extending her scholarly and artistic practice into the published realm.