My work has been all about gathering and food. I run a small home bakery. My focus is on ingredient-driven food that nourishes my neighbors, supports local farmers and purveyors, and has a net positive environmental impact. Previously, in the Bay Area, I operated farmers market outposts for Midnite Bagel, worked parties for WIRED and Vanity Fair, and collaborated with Leif Hedendal on private events for high net-worth clients, public figures, and brand activations. I have served in restaurants in northern New Mexico, New York City, San Francisco, and western Massachusetts. As an intern with the Cooperative Food Empowerment Directive, I organized a regional conference for student-workers in Brooklyn and Amherst. What started this journey was co-managing a natural foods co-op in college. My lifelong fascination is with language, transmission, expression. I studied literature and psychoanalysis at UMass Amherst and The New School, then philosophy at The European Graduate School. Film has brought these interests together. I wrote for the Seattle International Film Festival and worked in artist relations and events at Frameline and Telluride. My current writing project considers visual perception and knowing in contemporary cinema. Cognitive science and psychoanalysis rarely meet, but together can expand our appreciation for this medium with an exceptionally rich capacity to communicate – both with and beyond words.
I grew up in Massachusetts, and live with my Australian Shepherd in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains.