a*DUDE*FROM*OREGON

designer: 

I am a designer who uses history to enact spatial futures for communities who were denied access to participating in the production of space, and making meaning of our collective public. As an urban planner, I utilize design as a method to organize sustainable and just relationships between production, living, and leisure across the urban to rural continuum. 

curation: 

I am a curatorial researcher, who activates history through interpretative, diagrammatic, and archival design to elucidate narratives of place that have been made invisible. As a curator, I visualize systems of injustice embedded in the places we value and I unearth stories of resistance that make meaning of the spaces we inhabit. 

researcher: 

I am a research-organizer committed to investigating the genealogies of thought and political practice that have led to environmental injustice, across geographies of settler colonialism, and scales of place. I work with frontline communities to utilize their embodied knowledge to advocate for policy, and systemic change that empowers a just, sustainable future. 

education
Bachelor of Arts, High Honors, Environmental Studies and Political Science – Swarthmore College 

Master of Urban Planning — Harvard University, Graduate School of Design 

Master of Design Studies, Narratives — Harvard University, Graduate School of Design 

*acknowledgment

let us begin with a land recognition that non-Native Americans are all connected through our sustained occupation of the ancestral land of indigenous communities; our benefit from the genocidal, settler colonialism that allowed for the creation of the American state; and our human duty to recognize the survival and resistance of indigenous people in the face of this structural violence, and their displacement from their original land.