practicing collective care and the cultivation of connection rooted in ecology, art, and community
learning and unlearning through the ecosystems I occupy
educator
i never really saw myself as a teacher. rather, i am a learner who loves sharing knowledge that excites me. through this i found that i learn the most in my teaching roles. learinng and facilitating yoga deepened my connection to "teaching", learning to hold space for myself and others.
now, as a lecturer, i aim to cultivate spaces and ecologies of learners and teachers through trust, curiosity, and creative communities.
teaching taught me that learning is a communal ecology
traditional teaching emerged as a shared ecology i tend to through collective care
entomologist
my path to entomology began long before I realized it. i was fascinated by death (some of you may have heard that story). curiosity driven by what happens to a body, a system, a life in transition.
i found forensic entomology as an undergraduate at john jay college, where insects became more than organisms to study, they became my teachers.
insects taught me to see and honor all organisms and ephemerality
entomology became an anchor for my questions. insects are one of my greatest teachers in ephemerality and metamorphosis
ecologist
decomposition, shifting environments, climate, and community dynamics reveal how organisms organize themselves through relationship.
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growing up in brooklyn, I didn’t think much about these patterns, easily missed amid teenage angst. a seed of ecology was planted when I spent a summer in geneva, ny, hiking, learning about agriculture, and meeting other ecologists (and entomologists!)
ecology taught me to pay attention to patterns of connection and cycles.
it was a seed I would return to water after pursuing molecular biology and physiology
