I am an intuitive artist, arts professional/educator centering museum education, aspiring interdisciplinary scholar, and a yoga practitioner and sometimes guide (trained in a trauma-informed practice). My passion is exploring the intersection of art, wellness, and education through individual, and community-based programs. My goal is to integrate art, meditation, and movement into museums and other community art spaces. Most recently I was the Senior Museum Educator at the Frank Llyod Wright Foundation - Taliesin West where I delivered programs to over 900 family and youth throughout the valley. Currently, I am a PhD student at the University of Arizona in Art History & Education - Art and Visual Culture Education. My present-moment research interests are trauma-aware art museum education, contemplative and embodied pedagogy, and applied neuroaesthetics and color psychology.

Education, both formal and informal have shaped my career and passions. I received my MA in Museology in 2019 from the University of Washington, focusing on museum education, and a BA in Anthropology in 2016 from Arizona State University, focusing on social/cultural factors that influence health and wellbeing. In 2020 I began my dedicated yoga education earning an Anti-200 Hour Teacher Training Certificate from Return Yoga lead by Karin Carlson and continue to engage in yoga studies (see below).

You can find me at the National EMP Network initiating projects and programs for the Community Committee or as the Museum Representative Board Member of the National Art Education Association’s Caucus on the Spiritual in Art Education.

My Values

I am a white, non-disabled, cis-woman from the ancestral land of the Akimel O’Odham, Hohokam, and O’Odham Jewed, colonized today as Phoenix, Arizona. I was born a US citizen and come from a divorced middle-class family with maternal Polish Jewish roots and a paternal mix of English, Irish and Mexican Catholicism. These identities inform the way I move through the world and as a reflexive scholar, I am dedicated to investigating how each of these positions grant me access to power and resources, and ways in which I can disrupt systems of hierarchy and harm.