Public Engagement

Creative practice that helps people understand, connect, and engage.

I use documentary, performance, public programming, workshops, and other creative approaches to translate research and lived experience into work that invites reflection, conversation, and action. Whether working with a nonprofit, foundation, or community organization, my goal is to make complex ideas more accessible and meaningful for the people they affect.

Featured Projects

The Daughter's Department of Dementia Care
Online Exhibit

The Daughter's Department of Dementia Care

An interdisciplinary exploration of unpaid family dementia caregiving through documentary film, installation, photography, performance, and interactive media. Created to encourage caregivers, practitioners, policymakers, and the public to see caregiving and caregivers in new ways.

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Creating Creative Health for Dementia Caregivers
Programming

Creating Creative Health for Dementia Caregivers

Partnered with No Barriers USA to develop and facilitate creative health programming for caregiver retreats. Designed original workshops focused on caregiver identity, resilience, and creative expression, including an exercise later adopted into the organization's ongoing programming.

No Barriers USA
Conversation

Discussing Dementia with Mettle Health

Joined Mettle Health for a public conversation exploring dementia caregiving, self-care, caregiver identity, and the experience of being temporarily able-bodied and able-minded.

Creative Health @ University of Huddersfield
Case Study

Creative Health @ University of Huddersfield

Featured as a creative health case study examining The Daughter's Department of Dementia Care as an example of how creative practice can contribute to health, wellbeing, and public understanding.

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Documentary & Storytelling

Southern Shades of Blue
Docu-Series

Southern Shades of Blue

Created and produced a documentary interview series highlighting progressive voices in small-town North Carolina through long-form conversations rooted in trust, curiosity, and community.

southernshadesofblue.com
The Milken Institute
Interview Series

The Milken Institute

Producer on a national interview series featuring business leaders, educators, physicians, and innovators exploring opportunity, purpose, and the evolving American Dream.

EmpowHer Institute
Nonprofit

EmpowHer Institute

Produced documentary and awareness content highlighting the experiences of girls, educators, and mentors working to expand opportunity for young women in Los Angeles.

Discretion & Faith
Feature Documentary

Discretion & Faith

Associate Producer on a feature documentary exploring experiences of infidelity across cultures through personal storytelling and documentary interviews.

The Del Forte Denim Cotton Tour
Documentary Short

The Del Forte Denim Cotton Tour

Produced a documentary short exploring organic cotton farming in California and the relationship between sustainability, agriculture, and fashion.

Coaching, Education, & Facilitation

Tulip Resumes
Coaching

Tulip Resumes

Developed a human-centered coaching approach that combines in-depth interviews, career strategy, writing, and personal storytelling to help individuals communicate their experience with clarity and confidence.

tulipresumes.com
Gender Curriculum
Curriculum

Gender Curriculum

Designed a six-week curriculum introducing gender and feminist theory through accessible readings, discussion, and applied learning activities for nontraditional learners.

Selected Performances

My work as a solo performer explores female subjectivity. Often situated within elements of magical realism, my performances combine first-person narrative, character, humor, song, movement, and poetry to create new expressive pathways into questions of identity, embodiment, and belonging.

The Feminist Daughter Dementia Dilemma

The Feminist Daughter Dementia Dilemma

What do you do when you finally figure out who you are — right as your Mom totally forgets who she is?

A solo performance combining comedy, storytelling, poetry, and personal narrative to examine dementia caregiving as both an intimate family experience and a broader social issue. Developed with Luna Stages, Lauren Weedman, and Santa Monica Rep's 4th Annual Playreading Festival.

An Extremely Ordinary Girl

An Extremely Ordinary Girl

If given the opportunity, what would you turn yourself into?

Eight female characters explore beauty, redemption, death, mental illness, and a new religion known as 'Star Magic'. Developed at The Writing Pad in LA and WildAcres in North Carolina. Listed on Creative Capital's 'On Our Radar' series.

From Seven Layers to a Bikini Top in Less Than Five Hours

From Seven Layers to a Bikini Top in Less Than Five Hours

How do we balance the need to be perfect with the need to be a fully self-expressed woman?

Developed through workshops at The Field in NYC. Performed in NYC, Santa Monica, Bali, Washington DC, and North Carolina.

Selected Monologues

I have had the wonderful opportunity to perform on story stages in New York, Los Angeles, Amsterdam, and more. Below is a collection of recorded monologues, both first-person and more “performance-art” leaning.

The Path — Turbine Collective
The Trunk Show — Theme: Water
Come to Me — A poem if you are turning 38
My BUSted Valentine's Day Story
WriteClub · Naked Ape (Aug 2014)
The Trunk Show — Theme: Promises
SHINE — October 2013
WriteClub · Shame (March 2019)
Best of SHINE (February 2014)
SHINE · I Could Die Today
SHINE · The Power of Art