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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

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

  • Connecting and working with architects, designers, and contractors who do pro- or low-bono work with nonprofits and public institutions

  • Exhibit, experience, and event curation & management

  • Co-visioning and co-creating capital/capital improvement campaigns including all budgets, staffing needs, and timelines 

  • Project management for both virtual (website) and physical (brick and mortar) improvements and builds, working with designers, consultants, and contractors from concept to completion

  • Sourcing furniture and fixtures, and overseeing fabrication of all manner of things! 

2

Branding & Marketing 

  • Leading and project managing organization branding/re-brands, website builds/designs, working with stakeholders, staff, and web development teams (designers, engineers, and writers) 

  • Co-visioning and overseeing marketing and fundraising campaigns

  • Copywriting 

  • Managing all print materials (Impact Reports, Brochures, Etc.)

  • Book publishing (soup to nuts)

3

Merchandising, Book Publishing & Retail  

  • Swag and merchandise creative direction and product production

  • Artist and designer sourcing and oversight

  • Vendor relationships and merchandise fabrication

  • Square POS and e-commerce store builds and management

  • Retail store design (online and e-commerce)

  • 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

  • Developing youth programming for arts organizations for in-school, camps, and after-school programs  

  • Teaching K-8 students 

  • Proudly trained in Studio Pathway's love based arts education pedagogy. 

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I acknowledge that the land we are on today is the traditional and ancestral homelands of the Chochenyo Ohlone people. I live in Huichin, also known as Oakland, on the unceded territories of Chochenyo and Ramaytush Ohlone peoples, who have continuously lived upon this land since time immemorial. I recognize the historic discrimination and violence inflicted upon Indigenous peoples in California and the Americas, including their forced removal from ancestral lands, and the deliberate and systematic destruction and genocide of their communities and culture.

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Photo credits: Gensler, Oakland & Nathanial Swope

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