I’m a facilitator, community steward, and excitable person who loves getting into all of the awful and joyful things that come up when building things with other people.

These days, I’m supporting the Bradley Street Bicycle Co-op community and designing experiences and program strategy inside IDEO’s Play Lab.

Before all this, I connected people at an internationally beloved participatory museum, a voter registration org that activates diehard fans at festivals and concerts, and through experiences I’ve designed myself – like an amateur dance class or secret midnight concerts.

I also write about the mysterious, magical, unpredictable human funk that comes up when in community with other people at GROUP HUG. I recently realized this is just another thing in the long lineage of me obsessing over the secret sauce of “successful” collectives and alternative spaces. Everything is really just one big line in life! Or is it a squiggle?

Reach out if you’d like to chat or get up to something together.

Past Work & Projectness

COMMUNITY STRATEGY

Building a museum with and for the people

I helped build pathways for the thousands of members, volunteers, co-creators, and artists who made the museum their gathering place, their performance space, and their collaborative home. I was part of the core team that nudged the museum from a place of near-financial collapse to thriving over six years thanks to fire festivals, exhibitions co-designed with foster youth and seniors, and completely scrappy, DIY creative parties. One time we held a Speed Wedding where a dozen couples got real life married in just a few hours. It was all as fun as it sounds.

Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History