Things I’ve Made

Founder & Director · Community organizing & neighborhood activation

In February 2025, DC was reeling. Federal workers were losing jobs overnight, and heads were spinning. There was a lot of sudden loss.

I had an idea: let’s find a low-lift, low-friction, ambient way to connect and be together. I got a crockpot, and I got some ingredients, and I put my coat on.

For the entire month of March, I showed up in my neighborhood plaza every day with a pot of stone-soup style stew — made with whatever neighbors brought. It was different each time. Lots of beans. Sweet potatoes. But also pickle juice, Georgian spices, cracked chipotle peppers.

By the end of the month, we had served over 1,000 bowls, local + national news outlets had covered it. The crockpot went into hibernation, a job well done.

Then, something unexpected happened in the winter of 2026 — whispers for stew. Would it come back? It did indeed, by popular demand — for a three month run.

I now lead a team of volunteers who keep the pot going. We have lots of ideas about what might come next.
→ Visit us here.

Co-Founder · Branding, communications & creative direction

After finishing my death midwifery apprenticeship, I wanted to find the other death workers in DC — the ones thinking about holistic approaches to life and death, about systems and structures, about what it means to do this work in this city, in this moment. I knew they were out there, but I just couldn't quite figure out where they were gathering.

I began to dream up a clubhouse — a hub. A place for death workers to find each other, collaborate, and figure it out together. I found a collaborator in Laura Lyster-Mensh, our favorite Death Doula in Residence at the Historic Congressional Cemetery, and together, we co-founded The DC Death Collective.

Now I lead its branding, communications, newsletter, and creative programming — the connective tissue, dreaming up events, writing the words, making sure the whole thing feels like itself. We’re beefing up with a steering committee, thirty members, a growing directory, and an interdisciplinary community reimagining how we approach living, dying, and caring for one another in the DMV.

→ Visit thedcdeathcollective.org

Solo researcher, producer & exhibition designer · Columbia University MA thesis

When I went to Western North Carolina to ask how a physical geography shapes how you live and who you become, the question shifted. I needed to ask something else: what does it mean to die here? The result was a manifold project: a choose-your-own-adventure oral history concept album and a pop-up listening bar where strangers sat with the voices of Hot Springs, NC; a two part audio documentary; and an on-going oral history program that lives in Madison County and with StoryCorps + The Library of Congress.

→ Listen to part of it here

Co-producer · Oral history podcast series

My best friend + collaborator were handed decades of oral history archives and told: make something. Eight episodes, hosted by lead NPS oral historian Luann Jones, about the people who take care of America's parks — search and rescue rangers, wilderness managers, cartographers, interpreters. Winner of the Society for History in the Federal Government Excellence in New Media Award, 2021.

→ Listen here

Writer & researcher — Grim & Mild Entertainment, INC

The American sideshow built its spectacle on real people — people whose stories were deliberately obscured, whose interiority was stripped away so they could be turned into a commodity. We wanted to dig into the archives and reanimate each life.

Sideshow is a narrative podcast series I wrote and researched for Grim & Mild Entertainment, traveling across time and geography to understand how this institution came to exist — and what it left behind. It was created in collaboration with Taylor Hagerdorn and Sam Alberty, narrated by Aaron Mahnke.

It was collaborative institutional work — not mine alone. But the question underneath it is one I keep returning to everywhere: whose stories get told, and whose get buried.

I sadly didn’t get to attend the Sideshow School at Coney Island in the process of making this show, ut never say never.

→ Listen to Sideshow