I believe in the power of wonder and imagination, and that beautiful, immersive spaces can foster belonging, empathy, and transformation.
I’m here to help vision and build values-aligned places, online and in-person, for nonprofit and public institutions within budget and with and for the communities that they work to uplift.
As a Creative Director, I have worked with artists, strategists, design teams, architects, and contractors to midwife spaces into wild, weird, functional, and imaginative worlds.
I have also overseen nonprofit brand development & marketing, capital campaigns, book publishing, and merchandising for both e-commerce and brick-and-mortar retail.
As an educator and teaching artist, I have written creative writing curriculum, workbooks, and taught brilliant youth ages 7-12.
My joy is in making big dreams real for visionaries of all ages.
RIGHT BRAIN: CREATIVE DIRECTION & PLACEMAKING
Projects
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Westlake Writers’ Room & Chapter 510 & Dept. of Make / Believe Writing Center
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Chapter 510 Publications
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Invisible City Audio Tours (self-guided literary-based audio tours)
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Whole Story (immersive short story activations)
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National Novel Writing Month
RIGHT BRAIN SERVICES INCLUDE
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Creative Placemaking
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Creating beautiful and immersive mission-, values-, brand-, and belonging-based community spaces
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Connecting and working with architects, designers, and contractors who do pro- or low-bono work with nonprofits and public institutions
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Exhibit, experience, and event curation & management
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Co-visioning and co-creating capital/capital improvement campaigns including all budgets, staffing needs, and timelines
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Project management for both virtual (website) and physical (brick and mortar) improvements and builds, working with designers, consultants, and contractors from concept to completion
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Sourcing furniture and fixtures, and overseeing fabrication of all manner of things!
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Branding & Marketing
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Leading and project managing organization branding/re-brands, website builds/designs, working with stakeholders, staff, and web development teams (designers, engineers, and writers)
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Co-visioning and overseeing marketing and fundraising campaigns
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Copywriting
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Managing all print materials (Impact Reports, Brochures, Etc.)
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Book publishing (soup to nuts)
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Merchandising, Book Publishing & Retail
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Swag and merchandise creative direction and product production
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Artist and designer sourcing and oversight
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Vendor relationships and merchandise fabrication
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Square POS and e-commerce store builds and management
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Retail store design (online and e-commerce)
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Overseeing book publishing from manuscript development to print
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K-12 Creative Writing Education
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Developing and writing creative writing curriculum, workshops, and workbooks for K-12 students
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Developing youth programming for arts organizations for in-school, camps, and after-school programs
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Teaching K-8 students
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Proudly trained in Studio Pathway's love based arts education pedagogy.