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Resume

Specialties

  • Society & Culture

Creative Strategy, Performance, Media & Technology

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  • Sustainability & Environment

Urban Planning, Equitable Sustainable Design, Climate Policy

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  • Direct Service

Coaching, Facilitation, Capacity building, Social services

Approach

  • Collaborative, communicative, flexible, and adaptive

  • Creative, innovative, and generative with ideas

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  • Nonprofit administration standards and procedures

  • Strategic planning

  • Operationalize high-level strategy

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  • Facilitation, coalition building, community engagement

  • Communications & PR

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  • Program R&D, Performance Assessment & Revision

  • Feasibility Analysis
     

  • Adaptive change for JEDI - Justice, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion

Career
Overview

Fractional Collaborator

Think of me as a drop-in member of your "brain trust," as one client aptly described. My extensive background in organizing and leadership, combined with my intuition, organizational skills, and creative juice has made me a vital collaborator in a number of projects around the world. Project management, community engagement, communications and branding, PR, ux design, media editing, event and conference management.

Intermediary / CBO* Director

With a brief interlude for graduate school, I spent over a decade helming grassroots *community-based organizations (CBOs) that provide equitable intermediary services for community arts, sustainability, and environmental justice initiatives. Strategic direction, operations, finance, communications, fundraising, program evaluation, stakeholder and board engagement, and everything in between. I'm known for cultivating multicultural and diverse environments, people-centered leadership, and strong programs while growing revenues and maintaining a neatly balanced budget. 

Creative Practitioner

While multidisciplinary, my primary medium as an artist, producer, and collaborator is live art and participatory performance. Although classically trained in Seattle and London, with contemporary training intensives in San Francisco and Toronto, my priority in creative producing is engaging with works that explore important issues of our time and push the boundaries of staging or medium. Primary interests: participatory and transdisciplinary performance, embodiment, folk practices, performative media (immersive audio nonfiction and interactive tech), accessibility, multilingualism, Deaf/ASL, site-specific, immersive, placemaking, facilitated storytelling. Themes: socioeconomics, ecology, queerness and feminism.

Social Worker

My career origins are in direct service for Missouri's largest homeless services agency. My focus was on post-incarceration and chronic homelessness. Trauma-informed care, curriculum development, counseling, group facilitation. 

Degree Qualifications

York University |
Master’s Degree

Performance Studies, an interdisciplinary degree.
My focus: sustainability and environmental studies, business management, society and culture, technology. 
Member, CUPE (Canadian Union of Public Employees/Syndicat canadien de la fonction publique) 3903
Performance Studies Graduate Student Association

Saint Louis University |
Bachelor's Degree

Sociology and International Studies.
Graduated Magna Cum Laude, Dean's List, Jesuit Honor Society. 
Honor Societies: Alpha Sigma Nu (Jesuit), Alpha Kappa Delta (Sociology), Alpha Phi Omega (Theatre). 
Vice President of Finance, Association for Sociology and Criminal Justice. 
Publications Director, KSLU Saint Louis University Radio; Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief, The AMP Magazine

Additional Credentials

Affiliations

Creative Climate Leader, Julie's Bicycle

American Planning Association (Colorado Chapter)

Robert Sterling Clark Equitable Intermediaries Cohort

Actors Equity Association (EMC)
Theatre Communications Group
Metropolitan Volunteer Management Association
St. Louis Alliance for Re-Entry
Recognized Alcohol and Substance Abuse Counselor (RASAC II)
Certified Offender Workforce Development Specialist (OWDS)

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Public Speaking & Delegations

Stockholm Resilience

Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics (Mexico City, Toronto)

Political Ecology Research Center (New Zealand)

International Urban Planning and Environment Association (Lisbon, Buenos Aires)

The Between (New York)

Younger Than Beyoncé Gallery (Toronto)

Creative Placemaking (Los Angeles, Phoenix)

Community Arts & Development (St Louis)

Allied Media (Detroit)
World Fringe Congress (Edinburgh)

Canadian Association for Theatre Research
American Theatre Critics Association

Geek Girl Con

Opera Theatre St Louis

Pulitzer Arts Foundation

COCA SPARK

Lutheran World Relief (Tanzania)

Gensler

Urban@UW

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In addition to the above, I've been honored with a flurry of acknowledgements for my work as an artist. Get in touch if you'd like to know more about this side of my work! 

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