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Education
2020            MFA in Interdiscliplinary Arts with a focus on Embodied Place, Sierra Nevada University, Lake Tahoe
2013            BA in Anthropology + Minor in Creative Writing, Stanford               

Select exhibitions
2023            (upcoming) Delightful Emergence group show in Oakland, CA
2023            Blü Umi Art Pop-Up in Hanapepe, Kauai 
2023            Artist at Joshua Tree Music Festival 
2022            Artist at Joshua Tree Music Festival
2020            The Diggins Are Alive site-specific exhibition, North Columbia Schoolhouse and Cultural Center, Nevada County CA
2020            Wild & Scenic Film Festival Juried Art Exhibit Official Selection, Nevada City CA
2019            Andy’s Screen Tests installation at SFMOMA Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
2019            Burning Man Free Wifi interactive installation at Burning Man, Black Rock Desert
2018            Repeating VR installations at California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco CA
2018            Magritte’s Clouds interactive LED installation, SFMOMA, San Francisco
2018            747 Project at Burning Man
2017            Future Fires Showcase, an immersive art and technology festival in San Francisco
2016            The Art of Dying immersive art show; ReImagine End of Life Festival, San Francisco

Organizations
2019-now   Founding Board Member and Designer for Immersive Arts Alliance, a Bay Area non-profit expanding San Francisco Bay Area’s culture of large-scale, immersive public art 
2017-now   Co-founder of Audio Acid Trips - audio-guided journeys through the magic dark of your imagination
2015-2020 Co-founder of Dream Logic, an experiential art production company that partners with Bay Area cultural institutions & museums

Site-specific research projects + residencies
2021            Nirmānā Project: onoing collaborative mural projects with Kauai island youth
2021            Fire as Site: cross-disciplinary project engaging wildfire as a “site” for creative placemaking in the wildfire-impacted west 
2020            Listening In Void Space: site-specific project at Malakoff Diggins hydraulic gold mine in Western Nevada County, Northern California. Site pilgrimages over six months engaged deep listening, an experimental composition method for listening in and with landscape. 

Workshops + trainings
2023            Guide Training with the School of Lost Borders, Wild Mountain, CO
2022            Ancestral Lineage Healing course with Ancestral Medicine
2022            Re-Wilding Mythology course led by writer Sophie Strand
2022            Heal Thyself: Transformative Initiation for People Racialized as White with Reverend Brig Feltus
2022            Tarot for the Wild Soul course with Lindsay Mack
2021            Mirroring Training with The School of Lost Borders, Dragonback Springs, CO
2021            Hawaiian Mythology course with Kumu Ka’imi Summers, University of Hawaii, Kauai Community College 
2020            Great Ballcourt Initiation Fast with The School of Lost Borders, Death Valley CA
2020            Wild Pigment Foraging and Palette Remediation workshop with Tilke Elkins, Springfield OR
2018            Yuba Writers’ Workshop with Rachel Howard, Grass Valley, CA (16 weeks)
2018            Women’s Fast with The School of Lost Borders, Death Valley CA
2018            Volunteer farmer at Soil Sisters Farm in Nevada City CA
2016            Meisner Acting Intensive with Rachel Adler, Waterfront Playhouse, Berkeley CA

Grants + awards
2021            Short-listed for Holt/Smithson Foundation Research Fellowship: Indigenous Narratives
2021            NirMānā Mentor Projects supported by a Rise to Work grant through the Garden Island Arts Council
2018            Starland Portfolio Scholarship, Sierra Nevada University
2013            Stanford Phi Beta Kappa
2013            Stanford Anthropology Department Honors for undergrad thesis on Anna Tsing’s global ethnology, Friction
2012            National Endowment for the Humanities Writing Award for poem about the post-Emancipation South  
2010            Boothe Prize in Undergrad Writing for essay “Intertwining Art” exploring artistic mimesis and mythic allegory in Dante’s Inferno

Publications
2021            Two Doors Open in Yellow magazine by Palmwood, United Arab Emirates
2018            “Cookbook Section,” in Thread Online Literary Journal
2017            “And then something weird happened: Burning Man from 30,000 ft.,” in SixbyEight Press
2010            “Intertwining Art,” Stanford University Boothe Prize Anthology

Speaking
2022              “Deep Listening, Synesthesia & the Senses” Artist Talk for Anna Davidson’s ‘Field Research in the Ecological Arts’ class, Cornell
2021              Alakai Swamp Virtual Field Expedition & Artist Talk for Anna Davidson’s ‘Field Research in the Ecological Arts’ class, Cornell 
2020            End of Life, Grief + XR Panel Discussion presented by Barclays Eagle Labs and Immerse UK
2016            “Your Virtual Death” TedX talk, Stanford

Audio
2021            Two Doors Open, an experiential, audio-guided journey through limbo. Created for and published in Yellow, a magazine created by the social impact design studio Palmwood
2010            Podcast made in collaboration with Aliza Gazek & the Stanford Storytelling Project investigating why you can find an Aussie at any backpackers hostel in the world