Things I’ve Made

Founder & Director · Community organizing & neighborhood activation

When a neighborhood needed a reason to come outside together, I made soup. Every day for a month. The Washington Post came. So did everyone else.

→ Visit us here.

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

When I went to Western North Carolina to ask how a landscape shapes who you become, the question changed. It became: what does it mean to die here? The result was an oral history concept album and a pop-up listening bar where strangers sat with the voices of the dead.

→ Listen to part of it here

Co-Founder · Branding, communications & creative direction

DC had no dedicated community infrastructure for death and grief workers — no directory, no programming, no shared space. So we built it.

I co-founded the Collective and 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. A steering committee, thirty members, a growing directory, and a community reimagining how we approach living, dying, and caring for one another in the DMV.

→ Visit thedcdeathcollective.org

Co-Founder · Creative direction & operations

It was deep winter 2024 and we needed a party. Not just any party — the queer disco party that didn't exist yet in DC.

I co-founded Disco Tits DC and led creative direction and operations: the concept, the aesthetic, the venue relationships, the logistics, the communications. We threw it once and people came back. We threw it again. By the fourth event we had scaled from 300 to 800+ attendees.

→ @disco.tits.dc on Instagram

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. I wanted to give it back.

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. Directed in collaboration with Taylor Hagerdorn and Sam Alberty, narrated by Aaron Mahnke.

It's 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

→ Listen to Sideshow