About Me

Language. Story. Care.

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 at the center of my work.

Theatre remains central to how I work. It shapes 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—one rooted in attention, curiosity, and care.

Across community programs, creative projects, and collaborative partnerships, I am interested in the conditions that help people learn, connect, and imagine new possibilities together.

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