I am a writer/editor, educator, and arts and humanities project manager, approaching my work across disciplines with an embodied sensibility.
As a writer and editor, I’m invested in projects that explore and interrogate links between artmaking, place, embodiment, labor, and access and accessibility.
Beyond criticism and reporting, I provide descriptive and promotional copywriting and editing, as well as grant writing and management, for arts and cultural organizations, educational institutions, and independent practitioners and businesses. I enjoy collaborating with choreographers and performance and media artists to offer research and dramaturgical consulting as well as embedded criticism and documentary writing. I’m particularly interested in experimental documentary, publishing, and archival methods for ephemeral artmaking.
Currently, I work on grants connected to community-engaged and public programs — with a particular focus on arts education — at The Cooper Union. From 2022-24, I managed editorial and communications projects at the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute, strategizing novel storytelling methods to increase and broaden engagement with humanities research and pedagogy in a shifting academic and cultural landscape. In recent years, I worked in two other capacities within Duke University: with the Master of Fine Arts in Dance: Embodied Interdisciplinary Praxis, where I advised and supported graduate students, coordinated co-curricular dance programming, and worked toward building a debt-free graduate program, and for three years between Duke Performances and Duke Arts, where I devised artist-in-residence programs in collaboration with artists, public educators, arts and culture workers, and university students, staff, and faculty. I also managed all of Duke Performances’ major dance projects, including a multi-year institutional collaboration with the American Ballet Theatre and simultaneous yearlong series Ballet Futures, which set out to probe and reimagine the art form’s pasts, presents, and possibilities.
I’ve previously taught, mentored, and designed performing arts, documentary studies, and humanities curricula for undergraduate and high school students; programmed public film and writing series; reported on immigration, austerity, and independent arts spaces in Dublin, Ireland; and worked in editorial and communications capacities in academic publishing.
Long-term, I am researching the histories, pedagogies, and site-specificities of dance at Black Mountain College; organizing for Medicare for All; and learning Irish. I’ve spent most of my life in and around central North Carolina and now live in Jackson Heights in Queens, New York.