After graduating from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a BA in Studio Art, I lived in Washington DC where I worked as an intern at the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage and the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. From 2016 to 2018, I served as the Director of Events at Dupont Underground, a 501(c)(3) cultural organization transforming a public work at the subterranean streetcar station in Dupont Circle, Washington DC into a new public infrastructure to support creative exchange. This experience inspired me to pursue a MS in Historic Preservation at the Stuart Weitzman School of Design. Today, as a trained visual artist and historic preservationist I seek to document and scrutinize the axiomatic language of the built environment through archival research, writing, and photography. The goal of these multidisciplinary studies are to expose the often overlooked social hierarchies and underrepresented cultural heritages that manifest in the historic fabric of the constructed American landscape.
