About

I am a Director, Artist, Educator and Leader who supports people and organizations reach their full potential through education, program design, and transformational leadership. As an artist, dancer, choreographer and scholar, I believe the performing arts are a catalyst for social change and community empowerment. My performance work and scholarship are an interwoven praxis of teaching, writing, dance-making and show producing which is playful, political, queer, experimental, and built around community ritual. I work for professional dance productions and in community and educational settings.

I have over twenty-years of experience teaching, facilitating, and managing programs, stakeholders, and adult learners within higher education, nonprofit, philanthropy and arts organizations. I am the Program Director for LEAP ( Liberal Education for Arts Professionals) a national bachelor’s degree completion program for working professional performers to achieve their academic and career goals. I’m a Professor at Saint Mary’s College of California, and teach in the Undergraduate and MFA Dance Programs.

I have experience it teaching, curriculum design and development, assessment, compliance, strategic planning, organizational leadership, management, and recruitment and mentoring, fundraising, and community centered art practices.

I focus on building community, fostering genuine connections, and turning vision into measurable results in both art spaces and business. I thrive on creating programs that engage all stakeholders and bring communities together around what matters most. I believe that we can dream up abundant futures that hold human connection, care and learning at the center of our businesses.