I am a planner, designer, artist, teacher, and activist based in Eugene, Oregon. I am passionate about spatial justice and equity through the creation of meaningful, accessible, and joyful places, focusing on public engagement within this process. I have spent most of my career in the nonprofit sector, devoting myself to arts access, community well-being, and equity work. I have also been a youth visual arts teacher, developing a strong passion for art as a community building tool. My goal is to work with public art, creative placemaking, and public engagement to empower communities, portray collective memory, and create identity and sense of belonging.
As an artist, I work with various mediums to express emotional, existential, and collective thought. In 2020, I completed The House Project, a 13-piece mixed media collage project utilizing disposable camera photos of houses within Whittier, her affordable and diverse Minneapolis neighborhood, to understand the gentrification, displacement, and spatial process of change taking place. The project also highlights community reaction to the George Floyd Uprising which took place in May-June of 2020 in Minneapolis while this project was being developed. In 2023, I completed my first multi-page illustrated comic, Ghost Town, a story which navigates the artist’s experiences with mental health while watching The Sopranos. As of 2025, I am currently working on a graphic novel about identity crisis and fragmentation. Take a sneak peak here.
