That's me.

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I live and work with my family and many other critters in a diverse, working-class city neighborhood – a very short distance from the last recovering forests stewarded by countless generations of the Onöndowa’ga people. Their powerful persistence within the sovereign Haudenosaunee Confederacy makes everything I love about this land possible.

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I've built a creative professional practice all about communicating truths found in the natural world. I'm a born collaborator and boundary-crosser, obsessed with finding effective ways to combine conservation photography, science communication, digital media, graphic design, and raw enthusiasm to draw people into deep thinking and feeling about ecology and human life. 

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My undergraduate degree is in art and sociology. Following college I worked in journalism at one of the last surviving family owned newspapers in America. There I received a real-world crash course in the complicated tasks of communicating important information to many diverse people. 

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Later, I pursued my passion for design in the commercial world of marketing and public relations. Then it was time for more schooling. I wanted to be a college professor. 

 

For 19 years I've developed Liberal Arts curricula and worked collaboratively with students and faculty from across many disciplines. The world is a fire of fear and joy.