my trust in the capacity of visual, literary, and performing arts methods to serve as a pathway to creating conditions that are equitable, diverse, inclusive, plentiful, as well as individualized so as to honor full personhood me to leads me to participate in efforts of organizations whose work i deeply respect. Organizations like: Arts for Learning, the Miami Affiliate of Young Audiences (current role: Teaching Artist; selected past roles: Director of Programs & Operations, Director of Artist Services, Facilitator/National literacy curriculum co-developer, and consultant); the National YoungArts Foundation (past roles: Guest Artist, interdisciplinary, National Reviewer, dance, Alumni micro-grant panelist, multi-disciplinary, and most notably as Director of Artistic Programming, 2012-2016 designing and curating programs in Los Angeles, Miami, New York, and Washington, DC); and UCLA’s Disability Ecology and Performance Exchange, initiated by choreographer/field shaper, Victoria Marks, and brought into being by a wowing community of artists and scholars (past role: Action Partner/Assistant Director).