a woman breaking into herself. a home becoming her favorite place...
I describe myself as a woman breaking into herself. A home becoming her favorite place. In this sense, breaking is to express a kind of opening and discovering. Even at this “big age”, I am still discovering who, and how I am.
For over two decades I made a career out of bringing ideas to life. My titles included Event Producer, Project Manager, Account Director and overall multiple-hat-wearer and magic maker. I took my first big, and passionate leap at 16 when I journeyed 3,000 miles from home to take advantage of an opportunity to study with the renown Dance Theatre of Harlem. This one leap led to 13 years of an east coast experience. I completed my undergraduate education at Fordham University at New York City’s Lincoln Center and began my tenure at Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation. In the years that followed my departure from the foundation I served partners, individuals and brands, domestically and abroad. In 2014 I came back home to California and continued my professional pursuits within the music, sports entertainment, and advertising arenas. I also began exploring and developing my craft as writer, facilitator, and journey-teller.
In 2025 I walked away from a job in corporate advertising, and made the decision to transition out of the corporate career sector all together. A risky but deliberate decision made in order to more fully, and freely ground in my voice and civic agency.
Just as I have been transitioning out of old identities, old habits and incongruent ways of being, I am transitioning into new ways of being and creating that allow for more alignment with my values, integrity, and curiosities. I practice curiosity through writing, mindfulness meditation, and the exploration of self. I am most concerned with the ways we are and how our life experience shapes perception, perspective, beliefs, values, actions, habits, patterns, and our relationship with others, and ourselves.
“Writing is one of the ways I participate in transformation –
one of the ways I practice the commitments to explore bodies of knowledge for the useable wisdom they yield. In writing, I hope to encourage the fusion of those disciplines whose split (material science versus metaphysics versus aesthetics versus politics versus…) predisposes us to accept fragmented truths and distortions as the whole. Writing is one of the ways I do my work in the world.”
– Toni Cade Bambara, ‘What Is It I Think I’m Doing Anyhow’
my work is feeling...Emotion is a language I was born fluent in but I didn’t always give myself permission to speak it. I think deeply, write tenderly, openly, and as transparently as my courage allows. I write as a way of expressing and as a way of documenting and archiving this earth-school experience.
I synthesize through feeling. Feeling, in the way I use it, is the practice of being emotionally intelligent, conscious, mindful, and aware of our emotions as well as those of someone/something else, and being able to express and communicate through it. Through language I recollect my own breaking – up, open, and through.
This site is a fractional representation of the facets of me, as feeler, as writer, as artist, and public thinker.
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