current positions
-   Postdoctoral Research Associate, NSF Center for Braiding Indigenous Knowledges and Science (CBIKS), UMass Amherst
-   Cohort Member, Jacob’s Pillow Curriculum in Motion™ Institute
-   Co-Producer & Interdisciplinary Seminar Facilitator, The Open-Hearted MD

primary practices
-   experimental ethnography
-   Deep Listening® (Certified Facilitator)
-   Contact Improvisation
-   Non-Violent Communication
-   Radiant Body Yoga (RYT®)

curatorial projects
-   Children of the Streets: Reminiscences of Jan Yoors
-   Macro Meditations
-   Q: On Waiting
-   Wandering the World City: Jan Yoors’ New York Photographs, 1960s
-   Mind Maps: Curated Journals 2004-2018
-   Przy Rondzie 6*

teaching & facilitation experience
-   Adjunct Professor, Tulane University (on campus and through the College-in-Prison Program)
-   Facilitator, Beaubourg Theatre (interdisciplinary arts workshops: Artist as Anthropologist, Manifestos, Altered States: Experimental Embodied Explorations & Altered States Collective)
-   Manager of Programs Abroad, Museum of Jewish Heritage/Auschwitz Jewish Center
-   Organizer, post-conflict healing initiatives in East Central Europe & Southeast Asia

published topics:
-   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.

fellowships & residencies
-   ByWater Institute: A Studio in the Woods Scholarly Residency (2024)
-   USIEF Fulbright-Nehru Fellowship, India (2022-2023)
-   Arts Letters & Numbers Artist Residency (2023)
-   Mellon Graduate Fellowship in Community-Engaged Scholarship (2019-2021)
-   Rotary Peace Fellowship / Certificate in Peace Studies & Conflict Resolution, Thailand (2014)
-   Fulbright Fellowship, Poland (2011-2012)

education
-   PhD, Cultural Anthropology, Tulane University (2025)
-   MA, Sociocultural Anthropology, Columbia University (2013)
-   BS, Communication/Journalism & History, Florida International University (2007)

services: Editing, proofreading, fact-checking, application review, grant writing, project consultation, listening & brainstorming

maps: Kraków, Poland; Dharamsala, India; New Orleans, LA

* pending completion / forthcoming