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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. 

*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.

design x curation x researcher =

visual_material justice

design resume

Summer Scholar, El Dorado, Inc.

May 2024 - August 2024

Community Engagement Intern, Metropolitan Area Planning Council

Jan 2023 - June 2023

curatorial resume

Curatorial Consultant, Harvard Forest, Fisher Museum

Jan 2023 - May 2026

Podcast Coordinator, Harvard Loeb Library

Dec 2023 - June 2025

Co-Curator, Kirkland Gallery

Sep 2023 - May 2026

Intern, Monument Lab

Sep 2021 - Jan 2022

Curatorial Assistant for Public Engagement, Portland Insitute for Contemporary Art

June 2021 - Aug 2021

research resume

Research Assistant, Prof. Diane Davis

May 2024 - Dec 2024

Curatorial Research Assistant, Prof. Dana McKinney White

February 2024 - May 2026

Communications and Engagement Fellow, Albina Vision Trust

June 2022 - May 2023

Legislative Fellow, Citizens Climate Lobby

September 2021 - January 2022

education

High Honors 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