About me.

I am a worldbuilder. A cultural antagonist and servant of planetary solutions, I am a futurist at my core. I grew up on the Pacific cliffs and in rivers running through Redwoods. My folks taught me radical service and imagination, raising me on Star Trek and the Bible. I came of age in a record shop, lugging sound systems into moonlit spaces on weekend nights, dancing in colored lights beneath a star cathedral. While I’ve been a writer since childhood, I have a professional background in service excellence, leadership, creative industries, management and organizational development (particularly in entrepreneurial environments), website and warehouse operations, integrated communications, data management, UX, strategic visioning, and branding. As my life unfolded, I came into contact with a driving need for more altruistic impact in my daily contributions. This led me to academics where I quickly developed an appetite spanning across disciplines, driven by a desire to understand human behavior, meaning, cultural transformation, and what a truly “healthy future” would look like. Locating tools to sustain a shift from old ways of being to the “what’s next” were paramount to my path. The custom degree program at Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies at Western Washington University is a powerful educational tool. There, I trained in critical theory, developed myself as a cultural theorist and futurist, distinguished myself as an innovative qualitative researcher and interdisciplinary scientist working in Human Computer Interaction, and created and taught a 300-level university course titled Economics and Ecology: Emergent Approaches to Holistic Resource Management. My academic training spans critical studies, community psychology, somatic therapies, ethnobotany, identity development and ontology, business and marketing innovation, sustainability and ESG, economic theory, UX design, technology implementation, organizational development, a variety of design and systems methodologies, qualitative research, and fine arts - all supported by my ongoing development and diversification as a writer, poet, and theorist. I graduated from Fairhaven in 2020 with a degree in Narrative Psychology and Whole Systems Thinking. I continue to build in my technology design research, liberatory approaches, ecological economics, education, and art production. I’ve also been producing counterculture events of various sizes for over two decades. Using my extremely diverse experience and skill background, Winged Élan Collaboratory provides bespoke consulting to individuals, teams, organizations, and communities. It is my way of scaling impact by targeting system intervention points in a collaborative way across industry and domains. I believe we are meant for this moment - it belongs to us and we to it. With you, I'm excited to build a world where we will all be well!