About Me

Attention. Story. Connection.

I am a community educator, facilitator, and artist interested in how language, story, and conversation create opportunities for learning and connection.

I currently serve as Program Director of the McKinley Park Resilient Community Initiative at Aquinas Literacy Center in Chicago, where I design and lead programs focused on adult education, resilience, and community engagement. Working alongside learners, community partners, and neighbors, I create opportunities for conversation, reflection, and shared learning.

My path to this work began in theatre and higher education. For more than a decade, I taught performance studies, directed theatre, and built educational programs. Over time, I became increasingly interested in how learning happens beyond formal classrooms—in conversations, community spaces, and everyday encounters. That interest eventually led me to community-based education, where storytelling, dialogue, and relationship-building remain central to my work.

Theatre continues to shape how I listen, facilitate dialogue, structure experiences, and attend to the dynamics of a room. Rather than viewing learning as the transmission of information, I understand it as a relational practice rooted in attention, curiosity, and care.

My work brings together community education, storytelling, facilitation, and performance as practices of attention, learning, and connection.

Based in Chicago and collaborating with community partners locally and beyond.