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Educational Foundation

Bachelor of Arts, Narrative Studies | Grinnell College | 2021
Interdisciplinary coursework in English, History, Studio Art, Sociology, and American Studies

Creative Practice

Art Farm Residency | July 2023 + July 2025
Artist residency with farm work exchange in rural Nebraska

Performance Apprenticeship with the Hinterlands | Spring 2025 Physical theater and vocal training

Psychedelic Support

An Introduction to Psychedelic Therapy Training Program | January 2024
10-week intensive designed to help professionals incorporate entheogens into healing and spiritual practices

Psychedelic Liberation Training | Winter 2023
10-week certificate program for clinicians, facilitators, and space holders committed to decolonizing themselves and their practice

Animism, Ancestors, and Psychedelics | August 2024
Course with Ancestral Medicine on working with plant medicines for familial and cultural healing

Ancestor Work

Finca La Lluvia Apprenticeship | Fall 2022
2-month embodied writing apprenticeship with Aurora Levins Morales off-grid in Maricao, Puerto Rico, focusing on ancestral research

Radical Genealogy Training | July 2024
Intensive with David Dean through White Awake on research skills for liberatory ancestral recovery

Colonialism, Cultural Healing, and the Dead | Winter 2024
Course with Pat McCabe, Butch Ware, and Daniel Foor on partnering with ancestors for decolonial work

Wounding of Whiteness Workshop | Spring 2023
4-session intensive with Tema Okun and the Psychedelic Liberation Collective

An Introduction to Embodied Ancestral Inquiry | May 2023
Interdisciplinary workshop integrating neuroscience, trauma, anti-colonial histories, and European folk traditions for transforming white supremacy

Unpacking Supremacy Culture Through a Polyvagal Lens | March 2025 Workshop with Marika Heinrichs

Community Wellbeing

Usui / Holy Fire Reiki I/II Training | August 2025
Energy healing certification and attunements

Facilitating Disagreement | April 2025 Workshop with AORTA

Detroit Peer Respite Training | November 2024
Training to provide non-clinical care and emotional support to folks in crisis as an abolitionist alternative to involuntary hospitalization and the carceral system

Aligning + Clearing the Chakras | December 2024
Energy work training with Lisa Johnson, LMT, ERYT at Irene's Myomassology Institute

Immersive Learning Experiences

Materia Abierta | Mexico City | August 2022
Month-long summer school exploring theory, art, and Indigenous technologies and cosmologies

Arts and Social Change | Prague, Czech Republic | Spring 2020
Study abroad program on art and activism with studio art focus

Digital Age Advaya Course | Spring 2023
6-week critical examination of power dynamics in the digital age

James Joyce Summer School | University College Dublin | July 2015
International intensive on literary analysis and creative practice

Teaching & Facilitation Experience

Allied Media Conference | July 2022 Presented 'Making Meaningful Content When Everyone's Exhausted'

Reel Girls Film Instructor | Summer 2019
Developed media literacy curriculum and taught high schoolers professional camera work and editing

Mayhew Program Arts Instructor | Summer 2019
Created supportive environment for underserved boys (ages 10-12) through art and filmmaking, focusing on self-esteem, nature connection, and coping strategies

Awards & Recognition

Grinnell College Bachelor of Arts Exhibition (BAX) Jurors' Merit Award | 2021
For Traces of Self multimedia project

William & Mary Global Film Festival | 2016
"Our Egypt" documentary selected for Student Film Competition

Teen Ink Annual Fiction Contest Winner | 2016
Short story "Salt" published in national monthly print magazine