bio

where passion and expertise collide

My experience working at the intersection of art practice and environmental policy began early. I was selected by Florida Atlantic University’s Center for Environmental Studies to film and edit a documentary on the historic Kissimmee River Restoration Project—part of the US Congress funded Water Resources Development Act of 1992—as an undergraduate major in Art History. In retrospect, this one opportunity has come to symbolize much of what I have become as a professional.

I believe in applying an integrative approach to everything I do. Nothing exists in a vacuum. Context matters. I’ve had the opportunity to create an archival database from the nearly 40-year history of one of Los Angeles’ cornerstones of contemporary art, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions. I provided administrative services for a bastion of the political art community, the Center for the Study of Political Graphics. My interest in art-making as a tool for social change found a new direction with my tenure at the local chapter of the US Green Building Council, as their Communications and Operations Director.

Art, architecture, city-planning, community participation, healthy and sustainable neighborhoods—all of these things intersect with our built environment. My enthusiasm for social justice and curiosity about how we create and interact with our environment culminated in a graduate degree in Geography and Urban Analysis at California State University, Los Angeles—where I am now an instructor.

All of these experiences have informed what has been a proclivity toward organization and a desire to implement real change through solid organizational systems and communication strategies. I like to think that my professional career is not so different from the personal and private life that I share with friends and family. My work manifests where passion and expertise collide.