Current
I am a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the NSF Center for Braiding Indigenous Knowledges and Science (CBIKS) at UMass Amherst. At Clark University I teach a medical anthropology course in the Liberal Arts for Returning Citizens (LARC) program for formerly incarcerated students. As a cohort member of Jacob’s Pillow Curriculum in Motion™ Institute, I am learning how to use movement to facilitate community engagement. On an ongoing basis I am part of a team that produces a podcast called The Open-Hearted MD and facilitates interdisciplinary seminars on the topic. Below are several projects I'm working on.

Experience
From 2023-2025 I taught anthropology courses at Tulane University, both on campus and through the College-in-Prison Program at a maximum-security women's prison. I also had the opportunity to teach at Bard Early College New Orleans (BECNO). As a Deep Listening® Facilitator, I lead sessions for groups of all backgrounds and collaborate on interdisciplinary arts workshops. Since 2011 I have been organizing programs abroad in Poland, Cambodia, and India with a focus on engaging with post-conflict healing and reconciliation from different perspectives.

Projects

Academic
In addition to my postdoc research on braiding knowledges, I am working on several projects and presentations on the following topics: levity in the clinic, troubling the notion of 'end' of life, the affective boundaries of the field, and advanced maternal age.

Journalistic
artifact repatriation, museum exhibitions, graffiti politics, language resurgence, aesthetic beauty (The Economist); supersonic travel, brain donation (The Atlantic); urban photography (ArtAsiaPacific); arts initiatives, reproductive rights, historical memory (Pacific Standard); Jewish arts & culture (Tablet); food studies (Roads & Kingdoms); untangling colonialism (Paste); nostalgic reflections (Protocols); snark (VICE); hotel reviews (Travel Weekly); book reviews (WA Independent Review of Books); international news (The New York Times); travel guidebooks/articles, et al.

Curatorial
Co-curating Wandering the World City: Jan Yoors’ New York Photographs, 1960s in a graduate school course in 2010 inspired my focus on exhibitions. Since, I curated two shows of Brian Ground's work: Mind Maps: Curated Journals 2004-2018 (2018) and Macro Meditations (2021). Chris Givens and I curated Q (2019) at Hotel Peter & Paul as an embodied exploration of the experience of waiting. Catherine Ryan and I co-curated Children of the Streets: Reminiscences of Jan Yoors (2021). Przy Rondzie 6*  is a long-term project and others are in the works.

Education
I completed my PhD in Cultural Anthropology at Tulane University in 2025, MA in Sociocultural Anthropology at Columbia University in 2013, and BS in Communications/Journalism with a History minor at Florida International University in 2007.

Practices
I practice Deep Listening® as a student and Certified Facilitator. Several other practices that impact my work include Buddhist studies, Non-Violent Communication, community engagement, feminist and experimental ethnography, and movement studies, including dance, Radiant Body Yoga (RYT®), Contact Improv, et al. 

Support
My work would not be possible without the support of a number of individuals and institutions. I am indebted to supportive kin; family, friends, ancestors, nature, beings known and unknown. I acknowledge the Fulbright Program, which funded my PhD research in India and MA research in Poland, multiple entities at Tulane University including the Department of Anthropology and Connolly Alexander Institute for Data Science, and the Mellon Graduate Fellowship in Community-Engaged Scholarship. I was able to write thanks to the ByWater Institute's A Studio in the Woods Scholarly Residency and arts residencies at Arts Letters & Numbers, among others. The Rotary Peace Fellowship in Thailand was a formative experience.

Services
It is an honor to work with others to support their processes of clear articulation and communication. I am available to support with editing, proofreading, fact-checking, application review, grant writing, project consultation, listening, brainstorming, and beyond.

Maps
I created these maps to support others exploring some of my favorite cities: Kraków, Poland; Dharamsala, India; New Orleans, LA.

* in progress / forthcoming