Bio

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, founding a community church in my childhood while simultaneously opening the world of science fiction to me. I came of age in a record shop, lugging sound systems into moonlit spaces on weekend nights. As my two children have grown, my path has become a polymath’s promiscuous foray into transdisciplinary work and esoteric fever dreams. I find myself straddling several domains, working them together to design systems and culture strategies that are viable, relevant, and life-sustaining. While I’ve been a writer since childhood, I began my career as a service and management professional which grew into communications and leadership. I have a background in service excellence, leadership, creative industries, management and organizational development (particularly in entrepreneurial environments), website and warehouse operations, communications, data management, UX, 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 - and ultimately to interdisciplinary studies - which had the effect of bringing me into a more acute connection with myself and the dualities of awe and horror infused into this world. “Everything is gestation and then bringing forth… Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force its sap and stands confident in the storms of spring without fear that after them may come no summer.” ~ Rainer M. Rilke I am a white Native. I am a Jewish Swede. A daughter of the Mayflower and the disrupted dispossessed. I’m the American colonizer and colonized. My positionality as a researcher is a confluence of intersecting identities both viewed and invisible. Female, neurodivergent, disabled, an educated high school drop out with a capacity for imagining and doing that ruptures the realities of my fragility and reinforces stereotypes of resilience. I have parts that are rooted, a professional cultivation, and parts that feel lost most of the time. These converging aspects that create my reality drove me to critical studies as I sought a better understanding of my lived experience and the greater systems that I am embedded into. As I continue my work along a cosmological and ontological path, I am increasingly aligned with Indigenous ways of learning and am curious how this will impact my relationship with knowledge and knowing over time. My training spans critical studies, community psychology, somatic therapies, ethnobotany, business and marketing innovation, 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 College of Interdisciplinary Studies at Western Washington University 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. “The world is violent and mercurial... We live in a perpetually burning building, and what we must save from it, all the time, is love.” ~ Tennessee Williams Reality shifted in some abstract yet specific way in 2020. I had been teaching a course on Economics and Ecology at Western Washington University and was lecturing on pandemic forecasts and global supply chain fragility about the time Covid-19 was hitting the States, where I live. This timed with the Black Lives Matter movement in response to ongoing police brutality and systemic injustice, another landscape and lifestyle I was deeply invested in. I discovered that as my program culminated and things in the world came undone, the anticipation I had for these exact kinds of disruptions, things I had been preparing for, weren’t being engaged by my community in ways that supported me or my visionary work. I burned out and spent a year living offgrid in a yurt. I watched the forest, chopped wood, carried water, and tended the ducks. I learned a lot about stopping, about myself as a human just being. It reminded me of the seasonal nature that rules me and things I wasn’t able to attend to in academics or early parenting. I eventually had to leave the fairy house on the mountain, caring for loved ones during turbulent times and clarifying the approaches that allow my work to live in the places we create and do the business of life together. We°C is dedicated to bringing forth a world in which we will all be well. The social systems we currently exist within make this impossible. We must unlearn what formed us while also remembering and inventing different ways of being together in service to life. Because of the way I’m diversified, I design bespoke services and interventions across industry targeting client and shareholders' greatest aspiration, need, or curiosity at the appropriate degree and scale, infusing it with inspiration! Culture Chamber is a non-profit concept I am currently building and seeking collaboration for. This is my response to myself finding a lack of systems and structures that contextualize and empower my own ways of being in the world and desires for life-affirming societies. As someone that doesn’t experience things in isolation, but who is constantly aware of a certain degree of systemic interconnection and entanglement, I’ve needed to become diligent and creative in how I navigate the world so my spark stays alight with enough air to breath and fuel to burn. I hope that Culture Chamber is a system and a tool that supports others dedicated to tending the garden of our futures and the soil of our heritages. Q: How do we refuse an unjust system we depend on to survive? A: Build a better system that’s SO SEXY people just can’t resist!