With interest and experience in art education, peace and conflict studies, museum employment, and a personal creative practice, I work to bring my life lessons to the academic setting to create an engaging, warm, open, supportive, and transformative learning environment.

I place value on equitable spaces of learning, open, non-violent communication, and trustworthy boundaries while working to break down hierarchal structures that support suppression, exploitation, racism, sexism, ableism, and inconsideration.

I believe that by building community in a classroom, a foundation is laid that can support infinite amounts of growth and development as people and as artists.

Influenced by some of history’s great artists, educators, and alternative institutions, I am drawn to pedagogical philosophies that consider the learning of life and art as one in the same.

I strongly believe in creating physically, mentally, emotionally, and financially sustainable practices and advocate for non-discriminatory allocations of creative experiences and resources.