Education
2018 MS Design and Urban Ecologies, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
Provost’s Scholarship
John L. Tishman Scholarship for Sustainable Development, Design, and Construction
2013 BA Environmental Studies - Studio Art, cum laude, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA
Work Experience
National Innovation Service, New York, NY, February 2019 - December 2021
Specialist, Operations and Design, Remote, August 2020 - December 2021
Project management specific to external product design
Operations management specific to internal processes, finance tracking, and software management
Program and Operations Coordinator, Remote, October 2019 - August 2020
Executive support
Program support specific to external product design and workshop content development
Operations support specific to internal processes, finance tracking, and software management
Special Assistant, September 2018 - October 2019
* This role started at Future Laboratories under the ‘National Innovation Service’ project team, which spun out as its own company in the Spring of 2019
Executive Support
Worked to establish, iterated on, and managed internal team processes
Assisted with projects specific to research, workshop design, and workshop implementation
Drafted and proofed external content copy and graphics
Future Laboratories, New York, NY, June 2018 - February 2019
Invention Intern, June 2018 - August 2018
Team member on ‘Future of Work,’ conducting research and design propositions around job transitions for 50 to 70 year-olds
Assisted with internal maker space technical questions and strategy
Research Assistant, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY December 2017-August 2017
Coordinated and finalized a publication on overcrowded schools in Sunset Park, Brooklyn which was used as a tool for community organizations and included in the exhibition "Places in Relation" at the Centre Pompidou in Paris
Operations, Give A Day Global, San Francisco, CA January 2015 – August 2017
Executed projects and developed programs directly under the Founder for an international start-up non-profit (part-time)
Residency Co-Director, The Birdsell Project, South Bend, IN, February 2015 – August 2015
Organized and coordinated arts and community events
Developed and implemented a two-month artist residency program for 11 visiting artists
Program Leader, Rustic Pathways India, Dharamsala, India June 2014 – July 2015
Led 2 seasons of summer cultural immersion and service programs for high school students. Responsible for logistics, community partner relations, and the health, safety, comfort, and happiness of the students
Arts Management
2015 Co-Director, Summer Residency Program, The Birdsell Project, South Bend, IN
Program Coordinator, Summer Arts at Menlo, Menlo School, Atherton, CA
Teaching Experience
2017 Teaching Assistant, California Dreaming: Tracing the Origins of American Sustainable Urbanism 1848-2020, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
2015 Guest Artist, Beginning Drawing (Alternative Installation Project), Notre Dame University, South Bend, IN
2013 Substitute High School Photography Teacher, Menlo School, Atherton, CA
Selected Exhibitions
2018 Sunset Park Gazette, Places in Relation, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
2015 Summer Residency Exhibition, The Birdsell Project, South Bend, IN
Winter Collection, South Bend Art Museum, South Bend, IN
2014 Erosion and Excavation, The Birdsell Project, South Bend, IN
2013 Rock Drop, Second Coat, Grinnell Arts Council, Grinnell, IA
New // Altered Cartographies, Thesis Exhibition, Sheehan Gallery, Walla Walla, WA
6th Annual Juried Winter Student Art Salon, Sheehan Gallery, Walla Walla, WA
Residencies and Seminars
2015 The Birdsell Project, South Bend, IN
2014 The Birdsell Project, South Bend, IN
Permaculture Design Certification, UPISF, San Francisco, CA
2013 Grin City Collective, Summer Emerging Artist Residency, Grinnell, IA
Beta-Local, Land, Place, and Visuality Seminar, San Juan, PR
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