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).
A devotion to performance as a means to nurture socio-cultural transformation, led me to conceive and launch Thought Loom (2009-2017), an artist-run company dedicated to giving traction to performance ideas. Thought Loom co-founding collaborators included Betsy Mullins, Ilana Reynolds, and Lydia Bittner-Baird. Thought Loom teamed up with visionary Miami-based organizations like Miami Light Project, New World Symphony, O, Miami Poetry Festival, and Bas Fisher International to support provocative makers (including cherished colleagues, sha Harrell and Octavio Campos) in enacting projects for concert halls, gallery spaces, historic street corners and buses (recently mentioned in the New York Times).