What I’m Building

Through my independent practice, I’m exploring how to support civic imagination, community-based storytelling, and relational design for a more connected future.

What I believe

I believe care is infrastructure. That imagination is strategy. That healing and systems change aren’t separate —

but inseparable.

What I’m Doing Now

As a human-centered designer and narrative strategist, I help transform insight into action—through workshops, frameworks, and participatory design with organizations and communities.

A Journey Rooted in Care and Complexity

From trauma research to learning ecosystems, my path has spanned global policy, wellbeing, and social innovation. I collaborate across disciplines to make complexity feel actionable.

Rooted in research. Moved by meaning.

Guided by systems of belonging.

From Neuroscience to Systems Change

The question that has always driven me: 
What helps people — and communities — truly flourish? What began as an academic fascination with the brain soon expanded into a systems-level inquiry into belonging, healing, and change.

Personal Principles

Imagination as Praxis — I believe imagination is not a luxury, but a tool for systemic and personal transformation.

Intergenerational Wisdom — I root my work in honoring what came before and designing for what comes after.

Relational Infrastructure — I believe the quality of our systems depends on the quality of our relationships.

Complexity is a Feature, Not a Flaw — I design with—not around—complex systems.

Recognition & Collaborations

If you are interested in an updated CV, please feel free to send me an email.

    • Social Innovation & Public Service Award – Georgetown University

    • Royden B. Davis Fellowship – College of Arts & Sciences, Georgetown University

    • Georgetown University Impacts Fellowship – Beeck Center for Social Impact + Innovation

    • Improving the Human Condition Grant – Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

    • Georgetown University Press — “The Journey Framework: Healing and Rehumanizing Systems” (Co-author, forthcoming Fall 2025)

    • — “The digital crossroads: Media literacy and the future of youth online” (Lead Author)

    • Thred Media — “Is Gen Z Too Emotionally Literate to Feel?”

    • TimeLeft — “Why It’s Easier to Joke About the Apocalypse Than Imagine a Better Community”

    • Network of Wellbeing —“Ecological Belonging: Reweaving Ourselves, Each Other, and the Natural World”

    • ADVANCE Journal (OSU) — “Transforming Higher Education” (Co-author)

    • The Journey Framework: Healing and Rehumanizing Systems — Georgetown University Press (Co-author, forthcoming Fall 2025)

    • https://redhouse.georgetown.edu/the-journey-framework/

    • Guest Lecturer — Georgetown University, Bearing Witness course (2023)

    • Speaker — The Gathering (The Wellbeing Project, 2024)

    • Facilitator & Designer — ReThink Citizen Youth Innovators Fellowship (2025)

  • Institutional & Academic Collaborations

    • The Wellbeing Project

    • Red House at Georgetown University

    Civic & Storytelling Initiatives

    • Made By Us (Smithsonian Affiliate) — civic imagination through public programming

    • Democracy 2076 — futures-focused civic dialogue and foresight

    Education & Youth Engagement

    • Early Years Leadership Diversity Initiative — equity-centered leadership in early childhood

    • ReThink Citizen — youth innovation and systems learning

    Social Connection & Wellbeing Platforms

    • Foundation for Social Connection — intergenerational trust and belonging

    • HoyaWell (implied among prior projects) — student wellbeing initiatives

    • Akazi Kanoze Access — youth employability tools in education systems

    Narrative & Media-Based Work

    • TimeLeft — storytelling on civic hope and social connectionItem description

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