After ten years working in human rights and fair trade advocacy, community organizing, and grassroots development, I am now an artist, independent curator, teacher, and scholar of textiles and social change.

My participatory artworks explore how labor, community, ecology, and meaning shape and are shaped by the craft of turning fibers into textiles; and how webs of production, circulation, and consumption enable me to bring a piece into being.

I find inspiration in the women labor movement’s call for “bread and roses:” life should be beautiful as well as just. So I use my hands to make cloth that touches our skin and inhabits our lives: to turn the results of my own consumption away from excess and back into objects I hope are of comfort, beauty, and meaning for others.