I’m a painter, photographer and interdisciplinary writer working across image, text and the body. I practice through feminist autotheory and an ongoing interest in what happens when the private becomes public. I use my own experiences, relationships and embodied life as material to ask questions about how we come to understand personhood and individuality.

I’m interested in the places where documentation slips into fiction, where intimacy becomes performance and where the body becomes both evidence and a site of investigation. I move between painting, photography and writing because no single medium feels sufficient for the contradictions I’m trying to hold. My work is an attempt to stay with those contradictions and to make something out of the tender spaces between living and looking.

Artist Interview
2025 Conversation, "Never on Tuesdays"
A woman with wavy brown hair wearing a black dress reading a paper in a room with beige textured walls and black and white art hanging on the wall. There is a glass of champagne on a small table to her left.

Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION
Western Washington University

  • Spring 2024, MA, English

  • Spring 2019, BA, Women, Gender, Sexuality & Decolonial Studies (Student Built), Minors, Philosophy & English

GROUP SHOWS

  • 2026 Devotion, Makeworth, Bellingham, WA

  • 2026 Insomnia,  WOMEN RISING: Expanding Visions/Diverse Perspectives, Dakota Art Gallery, Bellingham, WA

  • 2026 Untitled, Double Exposure, Voxel Gallery, Bellingham, WA

  • 2025 Rebekah,  WOMEN RISING: Expanding Visions/Diverse Perspectives, Dakota Art Gallery, Bellingham, WA

  • 2024 Performing Philosophy: Feminisms, The Body, The Private Life, Fiction & The Image, Common Ground Artist Collective,

    Seattle, WA

  • 2024 Performing Philosophy: Feminisms, The Body, The Private Life, Fiction & The Image, Geheim Gallery, Bellingham, WA

  • 2017 Male Gaze, Photography Expose, Western Washington University  

  • 2014 Smithsonian National Portrait Competition, Artwork Hung In Smithsonian National Portrait Museum, Washington D.C.

SOLO SHOW

2024 Performing Philosophy: Feminisms, The Body, The Private Life, Fiction & The Image, Synapse Gallery, Immersive Thesis

Showcase, Bellingham, WA

ACADEMIC & PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS

  • 2024 Performing Philosophy, Scholar’s Week, Western Washington University 

  • 2024 Performing Philosophy, MA Capstone Presentation, Western Washington University 

  • 2024 Sat On Panel For Catharine R. Stimpson & Elizabeth Wood Panel, Pacific Northwest Film Premiere and Panel Discussion to Explore Feminism, Women’s and LGBTQ+ Rights, Western Washington University 

  • 2023 Pedagogy: Personhood, Safety & Bell Hook’s Excitement, Training of Composition Instructors, Western Washington

    University 

  • 2023 Orature, Feminism and Film within the Sahelian Context, MEICON Conference, University Of British Columbia 

  • 2022 Pedagogy Of Personhood, Composition Cohort Presentation, Western Washington University

  • 2019 Carceral Logics: 10 Reasons to Dismantle the Prison Industrial ComplexThrough Queer/ Trans Analysis, Assisted Research With Vicki Hsueh, WesternWashington University

  • 2019 Colonialism As A Structure, ENG 333 Class Guest Lecture, Western Washington University

  • 2018 Islamic Feminism In the Moroccan Context, MEICON Conference, Victoria University

RESEARCH & BUILT CURRICULUM

  • Mixed-Media Composition Theory

  • Feminist AutoTheory

  • Creative Nonfiction

  • New Materialism   

  • Gender Theory

  • Identity Theory 

  • Pedagogical Practices

  • West African Literature

  • Non-Western Feminist Perspectives

  • Post Colonial Theory

  • Theology

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Instructor Of Record:

  • Fall 2024, ENGL 101 Writing Your Way Through Western (Three Courses)

  • Winter 2024, ENGL 337 Travel Writing in the Sahel, Feminist Composition Theory

  • Fall 2022- Spring 2023, ENGL 101 Writing Your Way Through Western (Two Courses)

  • Fall 2022- Spring 2023, ENGL 101 Writing Your Way Through Western (Three Courses)

Teaching Assistant

  • Winter 2024, ENGL 333 Global Literatures: Scribes & Griots

  • Winter 2024, ENGL 335 Texts Outside America & Europe

  • Winter 2024, ENGL 408 Cultural Studies

WRITTEN PUBLICATIONS

  • 2025 Shining light, giving voice: media and message, Salish Current

  • 2025 Local voices: poetry and film in North Sound Film Festival,Salish Current

  • 2025 Not the Whole Picture’: artists explore identity, loss and queer history, Salish Current

  • 2025 A century of drag: Bellingham’s queer legacy on- and off-screen,Salish Current

  • 2025 Reproductive health in the balance as state weighs budget priorities, PBS Cascade

  • 2025 Never too late: women’s stories take center stage, Salish Current

  • 2025 Transgender rights and inclusion: growing concern, Salish Current

  • 2025 A legacy of adaptation and evolution at 207 Prospect Street, Salish Current

  • 2025 Honoring the voices of women: Indigenous stories in short films, Salish Current

  • 2025 Mark Hunter and the sound of innovation, NPR, KNKX

  • 2024 Fear of the unknown: AI anxiety in academia, Salish Current

  • 2024 Bioregionalism, poetry and the democracy of the mind, Salish Current

  • 2024 Review: A new approach to maternal health in America, Salish Current

  • 2024 Review: ‘The Nonessentials’ — hazmat suits and scary stories that make us feel Better, Salish Current 

  • 2024 Review: Queer documentary ‘Break the Game’ to play at the Pickford, Salish Current 

SELECTED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

  • Editorial Team Member, Salish Current 

  • Freelance Journalist, Salish Current

  • 2024 Teacher Mentor to New Graduate Student Instructors, English Department, Washington University

  • 2024 Teaching Faculty, English Department, Western Washington University

  • 2023-24 Hybrid Genre Editor, Bellingham Review Literary Magazine, Western Washington University 

  • 2022-23 Submissions Reader, Bellingham Review Literary Magazine, Western Washington University 

  • 2021 Program Director,Scalehouse Non-Profit Art Gallery

  • 2020 Field Organizer, Alyse Galvin Congressional Campaign

AWARDS

  • 2024 Excellence in Teaching Award by a Second-Year Graduate Student, English Graduate Department, Western Washington University 

  • 2024 Nomination for Outstanding Graduate Student Award, English Department, Western Washington University 

  • 2024 Graduate Research & Creative Opportunities Grant, English Graduate Department, Western Washington University ($1500) 

  • 2022 Teaching Assistantship, Department of English, Western Washington University

  • 2014 Presidential Service Volunteer Award, President Barack Obama

SERVICE

  • 2024 Organizer For Catharine R. Stimpson & Elizabeth Wood Panel, Pacific Northwest Film Premiere and Panel Discussion to Explore Feminism, Women’s and LGBTQ+ Rights, Western Washington University

  • 2024 Executive Committee, Scholar’s Week, English Department, Western Washington University 

  • 2024 Mentor, Scholar’s Week, English Department, Western Washington University

  • 2023 Mentored Incoming Graduate TA’s, English Graduate Department, Western Washington University 

  • 2021 Organized Community Emergency Supplies Outreach, Portland, Oregon

  • 2019 Co-founded/Organized Queer Womxn’s Support Group, Bad Dads Club, Western Washington University

  • 2019 Co-founded/Organized Queer Womxn’s Billiards Club, Western Washington University