I am a visual artist, art and humanities teacher, and curriculum designer whose work brings together studio practice, art history, humanities, cultural inquiry, and enduring questions of meaning, creativity, and what it means to be human. I teach drawing, painting, mixed media, art history, global studies, general humanities, comparative religion, philosophy of religion, and world mythology in K–12, college, online, and international settings. I hold a B.A. in Studio Art and Hispanic Studies from Mills College, an M.A. in Humanities from Dominican University centered on art practice, art history, and philosophy and have completed Waldorf Foundation Studies.

My own practice includes drawing, oil and acrylic painting, printmaking, photography, installation sculpture, and mixed media. Shaped by living and teaching in Northern California, Colorado, and New York; San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chihuahua, and Sayulita, Mexico; Florence, Italy; a small island in Fiji; and Salvador, Brazil, as well as formative travel to Berlin, Germany and The Hague, Netherlands as a youth representative at the Hague World Peace Conference, and with other places always on the horizon, I bring an interdisciplinary and globally attentive perspective to my work.

My first sixteen years were immersed in a New Religious Movement which was a brahmacharya community and school grounded in ancient Vedic and Buddhist traditions; together with my later study of Ancient Greek, Latin, Sanskrit, feminist theory, a wide range of literature, psychology, existential philosophy, and comparative spiritual and religious traditions, this foundation continues to inform my teaching and creative life.

Some of the authors who have impacted me the most include: Anaïs Nin, Viktor Frankl, Paolo Freire, Fredrich Nietzsche, Adi Da Samraj, Hannah Arendt, Zora Neale Hurston, bell hooks, Irina Tweedie, Mirabai, Adrienne Rich, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Luiza Valenzuela, Maya Angelou, Pablo Neruda, Simone de Beauvoir, James Baldwin, Fyodor Dostoevksy, Marguerite Porete…to name a very few…

Growing up within the United States yet outside most of the norms of modern Western society, I gained an early awareness of how communities are perceived, represented, and judged. Experiencing the insularity of a closed community and then its exposure in mainstream media, alongside very early encounters with historical narratives of slavery and racial injustice, I formed a lasting commitment to examining the political, social and ideological power structures and dynamics that shape human life. This lens guides how I approach art history and humanities: I seek to expand whose stories, images, and knowledge traditions are included and therefore valued, while attending carefully to the historical forces and cultural inheritances that have shaped the modern world. My learning and teaching remain ongoing practices of building a more rich, inclusive, intellectually honest, and transformative arts and humanities education.