About Me

BIO

I love cosmic interconnectedness, reading 6 books at once, and swimming nakey in a big old lake. I’m a sculpture and ceramic artist interested in questions about ritual and process. I am committed to the good future where Land Back is reality, reparations are paid, white people reconnect to our humanity, and all people are all free. This work, like all aspects of life, is inseparable from the struggle for that future.

My cultural identity and experience of the world is definitively shaped by growing up in Central Asia as a person of US citizenship and English and Irish settler ancestry. I moved to the US at 18 to attend college. After several years in Tennessee and Texas, grad school brought me to Seattle. I’ve grown to love it here, while my heart is always with the global and American South.

I have a Bachelors degree in Studio Art and a Masters degree in Counseling Psychology with a concentration in Trauma & Abuse. In my clinical internship I provided therapy to teens and adults in an affordable therapy program. I pursue continuing education in trauma treatment, healing justice, and embodiment across various modalities.

My teachers have been many outside of the formal education system and I honor as teachers the kind neighbor aunties and uncles of my childhood, art mentors and materials, queer and trans community, farmers and sex workers, the elders and children in my life, writers across time, revolutionaries and mystics, and many unnamed others along with more-than-human teachers like water and the land.

SUPERVISION: I am deeply grateful to be under the clinical supervision of Smruti Desai, LPC, LMHC.

Learn more about her here.