About

A few professional highlights, some personal context, and clear photographic evidence that I haven’t always embodied boundaries and consent. 🐈

In More Conventional Terms

If you prefer the LinkedIn version: I’m an executive leader, creative entrepreneur, community builder, and operations strategist with over 20 years of experience helping people, teams, and organizations navigate complexity, transition, and growth.

With a foundation in Cultural Anthropology from Brown University, my work has spanned executive leadership, startup operations, community-building, creative production, crisis support, youth mentorship, and civic engagement. I’ve worked as an award-winning photographer, co-founded a community-driven focus group business, served as COO of a civic action foundation, supported founders and startups, and led projects that bridge strategy, creativity, and human connection.

Across industries and roles, my through-line has remained the same: helping people make sense of complexity, strengthen relationships, improve systems, and move toward more aligned ways of working and living.

Or, in less corporate language: I help people and organizations connect dots, navigate transitions, solve problems creatively, and uncover what’s possible.

What Shaped me

Community Care & Youth Support

For almost 15 years, I’ve volunteered with Camp AmeriKids, a free summer camp run by The ELM Project for underserved youth living with sickle cell disease. As part of the wellness team, I support campers, volunteers, and staff through conflict resolution, behavioral support, empathy-building, and community care. I was notably the first wellness team member without a mandated reporting profession—bringing an unconventional but deeply relational perspective to supporting young people. Working alongside this incredible team each summer continues to deeply shape who I am and how I show up for others.

(And yes, I also took the photos and designed the website.)

Crisis Text Line

During the COVID-19 pandemic, I volunteered as a Crisis Text Line counselor, completing training in de-escalation, empathy, and crisis intervention before providing over 200 hours of one-on-one text-based emotional support to people in acute distress.

Animal Welfare

I specialize in caring for animals with medical needs and sensitive temperaments while supporting volunteers experiencing compassion fatigue and burnout. Fear Free Shelter Program certified, I contribute through fostering, volunteer coordination, adoption facilitation, outreach and fundraising photography, and veterinary assistance.

Check out my animal and rescue resources here.

The Human Stuff

I’ve been called a “Human Swiss Army Knife” because of my unusual combination of experiences, wonderfully diverse network of humans, and ability to connect dots across worlds that don’t often speak to one another.

A born and bred New Yorker, I first attended Public School and then Saint Ann’s, an alternative high school that didn’t use grades, which deeply shaped the way I think about creativity, learning, and human potential. At Brown University, I was especially drawn to Cross Cultural Perspectives on Child Rearing and Development and Modern Culture & Media.

I’ve danced and choreographed my whole life. These days mostly salsa, embarking on West Coast Swing, and absolutely never saying no to an early-90s hip-hop party.

During COVID, I was diagnosed with Bipolar 2—an experience that deepened my understanding of burnout, nervous systems, support, and the importance of approaching healing collaboratively and holistically.

I burned out as a professional photographer because I thought I could do everything alone. At the time, I didn’t yet understand boundaries, collaboration, pacing, community care, or how to ask for support.

I thought I was an extrovert until my mid-30s because other people told me so. Turns out: deeply social ambivert.

Volunteering as a Crisis Text Line counselor during COVID profoundly changed both my personal life and the direction of my work.

I’m currently studying to become a birth doula, with death doula work next on the horizon—something that feels less like a career pivot and more like a continuation of the way I’ve long approached care, transition, and accompaniment.

I’ve also found kink to be an unexpectedly healing and affirming space for practicing communication, consent, trust, accountability, and embodied self-awareness—both individually and in community.