Bio

On the job

Based in Seattle, WA.

I currently work as a Program Coordinator in circuit board manufacturing, plus projects in sound art, music performance, flute teaching, and meditation. 

My background

The through-line here is maybe, "increasing access to knowledge!"

I studied Ethnomusicology at UCLA - I worked at the Music Library, and taught production at the radio station. 

After graduating, I moved to Washington, DC to work on the Research, Archives, and Data Strategy team at National Public Radio (NPR). I was then contracted to work in audio archiving for the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage (CFCH), primarily digitizing tapes from the early 1980s. 

I continued making radio, and after an ecoacoustics/field recording workshop in France, I began making work with the sound art group Cities and Memory - that has continued to this day, and has included several art installations. 

In Seattle, I applied my library background to technology, doing inventory management and procurement at the circuit board company Monsoon Solutions. I've also done design work on the company website, and based in that experience (and a long-time interest in industrial design and city planning), I took a continuing education course in user experience design through UW. That period included freelance work in graphic design, website design, sound design, and some personal user experience research projects. 

Most recently, I co-founded a meditation group here in Seattle (which has been meeting now for a year!) - during that time, I've started to play music more out in the world again, based in a music theory and composition technique that I can trace back to our group's studies of sound meditation and sound bath music. Very grateful and excited!

Some recent sound art work can be found through Cities and Memory, a field recording project based in the UK. This installation was featured at the C40 Mayors Summit in Buenos Aires, 2022.