About me
I started my career collaborating with design teams in the Global South on interactive projects ranging in scale. That experience shaped how I think about the real, lived consequences design decisions have on the people who build and move through our digital and consumer-facing systems, especially those most impacted by them.
I later moved into Transformative Social Work, where my focus shifted more directly toward lived experience in clinical, community, school-based, and research contexts. I built a private practice centered on anti-oppressive approaches to mental health, working primarily with people questioning the status quo and making sense of themselves and the systems around them, rather than simply adapting to them.
Across these contexts, I’ve developed a way of working that is both relationally attuned and analytical. I’m particularly skilled at tracking patterns of power within systems and adapting structures in response to what’s actually happening over time.
My work sits in the dialogue between embodied, relational ways of knowing and systems-level analysis, where insight is built through experience, reflection, and feedback over time.
I’m especially drawn to methodologies rooted in critical reflection, storytelling, arts-based expression, participatory research, and epistemic justice.
I’m interested in connecting with researchers, organizations, and practitioners exploring how human-centered design and relational practice can work together in grounded, practical ways.
