I am an interdisciplinary educator and facilitator whose work brings together art, science, and education. I have more than 25 years of experience designing and leading learning environments for intellectually engaged audiences. My background includes sustained collaboration with scientific, academic, and cultural communities, and ongoing engagement with research on creativity, learning, and creative process.
This experience shapes my approach to designing and facilitating creativity workshops and coaching.
experience & qualifications
My professional path integrates education, artistic practice, and research-informed facilitation.
I hold a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Over the past two decades, I have:
- taught and designed workshops for students, educators, scientists, and creative professionals
- worked with academic and research-oriented institutions, museums, arts residency programs, and nonprofit organizations
- developed interdisciplinary projects linking art and science
- facilitated learning environments that support experimentation, reflection, and intellectual exchange
- contributed to networks and initiatives focused on creativity, ecology, and interdisciplinary collaboration
My work is informed by research from psychology, neuroscience, education, and design, which highlights the role of practice, context, constraint, and interaction in creative practice.
interdisciplinary foundation
I come to creativity through long-standing art–science practice. My work has been shaped by:
- teaching and mentoring in academic, museum, environmental, arts, and nonprofit settings
- collaboration with scientists, researchers, artists, and educators
- artistic practice informed by science, systems thinking, and the natural world
- development of workshops and learning experiences integrating drawing, writing, movement, and discussion
- ongoing study of creativity research across neuroscience, psychology, education theory, design thinking, and socio-cultural approaches
This interdisciplinary foundation informs my facilitation practice, including:
- the use of multiple modes of engagement (verbal, visual, embodied)
- alternating individual and collective forms of work
- an emphasis on process over product
- commitment to human diversity, inviting people from a wide variety of fields, backgrounds, cultures, and points of view
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