Researcher · educator · facilitator · social practice artist
I study and build the structures through which people make meaning, create care, and participate in collective life.
My work moves between feminist research, trauma and disability studies, arts-based inquiry, organizational learning, and public creative practice.
The connective tissue
I work with what institutions often separate: scholarship and lived knowledge, trauma and collective life, artistic practice and program design, rigorous inquiry and the ordinary work of care.
Areas of practice
One practice, several forms
Research & organizational learning
Qualitative and mixed-methods inquiry, program evaluation, and careful study of how people experience institutions, leadership, care, and change.
Writing & facilitation
Trauma-responsive and disability-informed writing spaces where people make meaning, develop craft, and participate without coercion.
Social practice
Public and community-based work that uses art, gathering, publication, and shared inquiry to create forms of belonging.
Writing, film & book arts
Scholarship and creative work across poetry, essays, handmade books, exhibitions, performance, image, and film.
Selected contexts
Research, teaching, facilitation, and public work across institutions and communities.
Recent and ongoing work includes UCLA DataX and Gender Studies, the University of Michigan’s Barger Leadership Institute, Amherst Writers & Artists, Cunningham Township, the Fetzer Institute, and community-based arts and public programs. Explore the project archive → View the professional record →
Current work
Research brought into public practice
Community program · Urbana
Homecoming: Writing, Making, Belonging
A trauma-responsive arts and writing program developed with Cunningham Township for people navigating housing and financial insecurity, grief, disability, addiction, and social isolation.
Book in progress
Trauma Diaspora
A book project on trauma, archives, embodiment, and the material and social practices through which people live with what cannot simply be repaired or left behind.
Public work · 2025–2026
Care, survival & collective life
Recent work includes Care Beyond Institutions at SPSSI, Homecoming: Writing, Making, Belonging with Cunningham Township, ongoing Art of Loss and resiliency writing communities, curriculum and program development, and continued work on Trauma Diaspora.
Work together