Senior Strategic Development Manager for Higher Education in Asia Pacific & Pedagogical Evangelist, Adobe.

Manuela is an academic and digital storytelling expert. Before joining Adobe, she taught and researched at Bond University in Australia, following a 15-year career travelling the world as a Foreign Correspondent and multimedia storyteller for Latin America’s largest TV network. At Bond, she led the redevelopment of Journalism and International Relations subjects, embedding creative, real-world storytelling practices into the curriculum to deepen student engagement and foster transferable skills.

At Adobe, her work sits at the intersection of innovative pedagogies and emerging technologies, supporting institutions to identify opportunities for AI and digital storytelling in the curriculum - empowering students to build digital fluency, creativity, and future-ready capabilities.