I am an artist, writer, and Mad Pride activist. I am the founder and teaching artist at Woodland Sunflower Collective, an organization that aims to nurture the creative intention of connection, healing, and sustainability through nature and the arts. As a person with lived experience of voices and visions, I work to offer non-pathologizing frameworks and practices for living with and understanding emotional distress and diversity of consciousness. 

My work includes public speaking, workshops, essays, visual art, graphic narratives, and poetry. I have a graphic memoir, Tea and Ten Thousand Things on which I have based graphic narrative and healing workshops. I also have two books of poetry. All these works are available here. 

For three years I served as the Arts Editor at Mad in America Foundation. Currently, I serve as the Mad in the World Liaison. Mad in America is a leading voice in critical psychiatry and is run by the Pulitzer-nominated journalist and author of Anatomy of an Epidemic, Robert Whitaker. I am a consistent editorial contributor and curated Creativity and COIVD: Art-Making During the Pandemic and Teen Arts: Beyond Labels and Meds. I also ran the first annual Mad Poetry Slam.

I have been interviewed on popular mental health podcasts Madness Radio and couragously.u and have been a panelist for SoundsAbout Gallery and CTM Festival on The Auditory Experience of Psychiatry as well as a presenter at the Alternatives Conference, National Empowerment Center and the International Institute of Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal.

You can find my poetry and fine art at Hope Number 29 here. Writing and art-making have been passed down to me through two generations of women artists. I have a deep respect for my role as an artist in society and for the creative force itself. Art-making is as much a career as it is a part of my values and my spiritual path.