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                    CREATOR/WRITER/EDUCATOR

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STATEMENT/BIO

I'm a Boston, US-based storyteller, media artist and educator. I create large-scale geolocated storytelling initiatives, as well as digital stories that reveal moments when lives shift on the unexpected or mundane. I explore human engagement along a continuum stretching from daily life to extreme situations and environments including the climate crisis and trauma. My work is open and accessible, providing a platform for connection between viewers and subjects. I've exhibited in the US, Ireland, and France, and been a resident artist in Svalbard, High Arctic; Joshua Tree, California; and with the US National Park system (Valparaíso, Spain TBD). My years as a journalist (NY Times, Boston Globe), and educator in a variety of settings (including directing a Harvard Medical School affiliated program), have informed my approach. I'm committed to making my work available across cultures, ages and media.

DIGITAL STORYTELLER:

My internationally exhibited digital stories address issues ranging from the impact of found objects and small moments, to the effect of deep time, environmental trauma, and human consequence on the environment. My travel experiences to edges of the world (Svalbard, Micronesia, Samburu, Wakayama, among others), inform the way I write about and visualize the natural world, human engagement, and their intersections.

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LINK HERE TO SEE NEW BEDFORD IN THE PALM OF YOUR HAND, CITY WIDE GEOLOCATED STORYTELLING PROJECT (Created as Artist-in-Residence at New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park)

JOURNALIST/AUTHOR:

I am a storyteller, book author, nationally published journalist, and versatile communications writer with over 30 years of experience. 

I co-authored an award-winning memoir with Little, Brown & Company (published in six countries) and contributed to a book of essays published by University Press of New England. 

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I write for The Boston Globe and have written for The New York Times, Harvard School of Education, Boston University, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Scientific American, Marie Claire, WGBH Boston, NOVA, Root Capital, Ceres, WBUR Boston, New Hampshire Public Radio, and many other outlets.

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EDUCATOR:

I have been an educator in the field of Behavioral Health for over 25 years. As the director of the Education Initiative at the Mind/Body Medical Institute (now the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital), I trained hundreds of educators and students from pre-kindergarten through college in urban, suburban, public and private schools, providing effective interventions for decreasing stress and its symptoms while improving self regulation, attention, focus, executive function, communication, and increasing the capacity for personal, professional, academic, and interpersonal success. I work with schools pre-kindergarten through high school.

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I currently teach for Boston University's Prison Education Program (PEP) in both men's and women's carceral facilities. 

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