Community

Five years building schools, NGOs, and ceremonies alongside the Tlingit community in Sitka, Alaska — centering knowledge and people that institutions have long pushed to the margins.

Dean of Students at Outer Coa st, a new liberal arts college grounded in Indigenous Studies. Built the student support pedagogy for our 2024 launch.
Lead organizer, 2023 and 2025 Herring Ḵu.eex' — a 600-person potlatch tied to a land back victory with the Herring Protectors

art

Ten years making puppetry and performance from discarded material, staged in places where those bodies and objects usually aren't.

Performed Birds of Passage, solo traveling exhibition of puppets across Colorado. Debuted at Steeprock Residency (shown above).
In residence at Bread and Puppet Theater, the country's oldest political theater company, choreographing and performing in their summer show
Performed Simone Forti's Dance Constructions at the National Gallery of Singapore, challenging the idea that dance belongs only to formally trained bodies
Collaborated with Ruchi Anadkat on "performed geometry" at Fructose, Dunkerque

Food

I’ve spent the last 4 years in coastal Alaska, captaining a small boat, working with Indigenous harvesters and traditional food systems, and understanding the local policies and politics that determine the community's food sovereignty. I’ve led food harvesting and preparation for events ranging from art openings to native ceremonies to college commencements.

A big day in the life looks like waking up at 5 am to dipnet sockeye salmon as they travel upriver, fileting and freezing and distributing the fish to locals in need, and making a salmon chowder for hundreds of Indigenous elders.

Learning to harvest, process and live off this earth has transformed me, and I carry the teachers of the water and land with me into my future food work with new places, people and heaping plates of food.