Hi! I’m an Oakland based artist, educator & creative strategist. My work centers portraiture for counter narrative, community storytelling & cultural strategy on behalf of abolition and collective liberation. I’m from Central Massachusetts where I grew up on occupied Nipmuc territory on my family’s 4th generation farm. I’m the 3rd generation of my Polish and Italian ancestors and descends from 11 generations of English colonizers. Before working as a artist full time I was a mental health and substance abuse counselor and taught art at San Quentin Prison, St Elizabeths Forensic Psychiatric hospital & Leadership High School. The intersections of creativity, mental illness, addiction and ancestral investigation have been driving themes in my art practice since I was a teenager. I’m committed to repairing the harm of my inherited legacy and working to heal our collective imagination by learning how to stand squarely in truth, accountability, renewed resilience and unknown possibility. I’m is currently working on a body of work called Cynical Pilgrim, Anatomy of the Colonial Fetish! If you churned butter at Sturbridge Village as a kid…you know what I mean.

From 2019-2024, I was a Co-Director and Cultural Strategist at Performing Statistics, a project that supports youth organizers to close youth prisons across the country. Check out nokidsinprison.org/experience, a virtual experience of a world where all youth are free.

My collaborations include work with The People's Paper Coop, The Painted Desert Project, 826 National, Critical Resistance, Survived and Punished, Planting Justice and Dear Frontline. I’ve been commissioned by Amplifier Foundation to create work on behalf of The Women's March, The Science March and March For Our Lives. My work has been featured in news and media sources including The Huffington Post, Teen Vogue, The Daily Show, LA Times and Navajo Times. I’ve exhibited at Galeria de La Raza, The Mission Cultural Center, The United States of Women, US Botanic Garden, Betti Ono Gallery, INTO ACTION, Interference Archive and Politicon. My work is in the permanent collections of The Library of Congress and The Center for the Study of Political Graphics.

Friends, family, dark humor, egg sandwiches, running up hills, sardines, cold plunges, succulents, speed walking for no reason & Agnes Obel on loop are also influences in my work.