About
Hi! Here’s some things about me:
I am a facilitator, experimenter, curator, director, producer, and organizer based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
I work to practice curiosity and joy at the intersection of cultural strategy + systems change + just transition + solidarity economies. Read more about my work on my resume page.
Sure-fire topics to get me excited:
games, puzzles, & mysteries (eg. the life lessons one can learn from Merge Dragons)
the physical experience of grief and the way experiencing art moves grief through the physical body (eg. keening)
how other living organisms practice adaptation, solidarity, interdependence, and complexity (eg. woodrats building inter-species/inter-species housing collectives)
research about brains on art (eg. visual note-taking/sketch-noting/graphic notes)
the work of Community Ready Corps, adrienne maree brown & the Emergent Strategy Ideation Institute, Stephanie Hsu, The People’s Institute for Survival & Beyond, mak-’amham/Cafe Ohlone, Sonya Renee Taylor, For You Productions, Cat Brooks, Abby Houston, Mia Mingus, Rage Against the Machine, Corrina Gould, Maeve Binchy, Dengue Fever, ayodele nzinga, Pema Chödrön, Anti-Police Terror Project, Brian Bahe, Tricia Hershey & The Nap Ministry, J.S. Park, Padraig O’Tuama, Goeff Sobelle, rev. angel Kyodo williams, and Anetra.
MISSION STATEMENT
I commit to supporting organizational and personal art-making practices that reflect my values, which are grounded in anti-racism work & creating cultures of accountability and consent.
I aspire to tell stories onstage in ways that harness the power of the community’s presence in specific and intentional ways.
I believe in the transformative power of sharing space, of centering marginalized perspectives, of asking questions, and of listening deeply and with humility.
In all aspects of my work, I strive to create environments that allow people to bring their full selves to a common moment, particularly people prevented from doing so by dominant structures.
I work to recognize and disrupt normative systems of oppression- especially systems that I directly benefit from.
From my structural position as a white, cis-female, non-disabled person with class privilege, I commit to practicing education, organization, contribution, intervention and divestment* in solidarity with Black and Indigenous liberation movements.
*This language was created by Community Ready Corps to offer white people 5 Methods to divest & weaponize white power and privilege.
Land Acknowledgement
I live and work in occupied Huchiun, part of the Confederated Villages of Lisjan and the traditional lands of the Chochenyo-speaking Ohlone people, who are still here. I acknowledge the ongoing colonial violence, genocide, and erasure of the original people of this place, of which I am a beneficiary as a settler here. If you are also a settler on Lisjan Ohlone land (known today as Berkeley, Oakland, Alameda, Piedmont, and Albany, CA), consider supporting the Sogorea Te Land Trust’s rematriation work and offer your Shuumi land tax.