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. Still, at this big age, I am discovering who I am versus who I may have been told, expected or even, at some point, wanted to, or believed myself to be.
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 within which 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.
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 choice made in order to more fully, and freely ground in my voice, my agency, and my gifts.
Just as I have been transitioning out of old identities, old habits and incongruent ways of being, I am transitioning in to new ways of living, creating and being that allow for more alignment with myself, my values, integrity, and curiosities. Through reading, writing, and experiencing art and literature, I exercise curiosity by delving into the ways we are, the experiences we’ve had and how our experiences shape our perception, perspective and 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...I am an emotional being. Emotion is a language I was born fluent in but I didn’t always give myself permission to speak it. Being emotionally fluent is to others often seen as being sensitive but being a sensitive is a divine gift.
My work is feeling. My craft is writing, or as Toni Morrison coined, “doing language”.
While feeling and emotion are not the same thing, in language they are regularly used interchangeably. In the way that I use it, feeling is the practice of being conscious, mindful, and aware of our own emotions as well those of someone/something else.
I write deeply, tenderly, openly, honestly, and as transparently as my courage allows. I write first for myself. It is a way of expressing, documenting, and archiving this earthly experience; all the ways we can grow, learn, seek, see, and evolve.
Through language I recollect my own breaking – up, open, and through.
This digital space is a fractional representation of the facets of me, as a feeler, as a writer, and as an artist who creates…feeling.
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