Hi! I'm Bela Gaytan.

I’m a Technical Instructional Designer at Pantheon, DEIA consultant to NASA Astrophysics, 2022 Top 100 LGBT+ Future Leader Role Model, WordPress web developer, fierce advocate, speaker, and coach.

I’m authentic, transparent, vulnerable, and disrupting spaces to create change. Learn more about me or contact me for potential projects or to invite me to speak at your organization. Let’s do some good!

Featured Projects

A laptop sits on a white countertop, displaying the home screen of the “Travel Vocabulary in Spanish & Esperanto” project. It features foliage with a double staircase outdoors, next to a large villa. Three interactive icons appear on the left.

Spanish & Esperanto Travel Vocabulary

An interactive, 360° photo with audio that teaches Spanish and Esperanto travel vocabulary.

An all-in-one computer site on a white desk with plants on each side. On the computer screen is "HR Hiring Policies, how to hire the right people for the right job" with a begin button below. To the right are three smiling people dressed professionally with an office environment in the background.

HR Hiring Policies

Redesign challenge using boring, bland PowerPoint slides.

A white desk sits against a textured cement wall. On the left is a plant, headphones, a coffee cup, and a cup with writing utensils. An all-in-one computer is off-center and on the screen is an image of the title page of “Building a Medical Binder”. There are navigational tabs on the right and 3 masked individuals below.

Building a Medical Binder

A 5-tab interaction teaching patients and caregivers how to build a medical binder.

A brick wall is behind a black frame. In the frame is "Communicating Success: The Effect of Prompt Feedback on Adult Learner Success in an Asynchronous, Online Resume Optimization Course".

M.Ed. Research Study

Communicating Success: The Effect of Prompt Feedback on Adult Learner Success in an Asynchronous, Online Resume Optimization Course.

A latop sits on a white desk with an industrial-style lightbulb hanging on the left and a calendar on the right. On the laptop screen is the main frame of the Accessibility BINGO game. The background is black. "Designing Learning for Accessibility" is on the right with a deaf black man and a white woman with a bionic arm. On the left is the BINGO heading tiles, "Welcome to Accessibility BINGO!", and a written transcript of the introductory audio message.

Accessibility BINGO

Interactive BINGO game created in Storyline 360 teaching accessibility best practices.

An all-in-one computer sits on a white desk with a silver lamp to the right. In the background is bright light and windows. On the computer screen is "Resume Optimization, BrightBel Online Learning, Course RES100" and Scrabble tiles spelling out "Write Resume". This is the thumbnail image for the course welcome video.

Course Welcome Video

Welcome video created for learners and visitors to my Resume Optimization course at BrightBel.com.

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