Your voice was never lost.
The room just wasn't listening.

The Book

Before the research, before the AI systems, before the peer review, there was a book. Polishing Your Jewels: What Makes Me Shine wasn't built on theory. It was built on the proven belief that completing something (finishing it, publishing it, holding it in your hands) is itself an act of healing. That book taught me that finding your voice starts with the act of using it.

The Service

I served as a U.S. Army Medical Officer as a Clinical Laboratory Scientist. I earned an M.S., an MBA, a PMP. By every institutional measure, I succeeded. But I also watched what those institutions did to the people inside them. Especially women. Especially the minds the system was never built to support. Especially the ones who tried to speak up and were punished for it.

The Training

I trained with David Diamond at Theatre For Living in Canada, in the tradition of Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed. And with Ann Randolph, who writes one-woman shows and taught me that solo performance is its own form of liberation. I learned that performance is intervention. The stage isn't where you pretend to be someone else. It's where you practice being yourself out loud, in public, with witnesses.

The Work in DC

I brought that training home to Washington, DC. Finding Your Voice™ ran at Phelps High School, Bard, Eastern, and Academy of Hope, in classrooms where students had never been asked what they wanted to say. It ran at N Street Village, a place of transition where women were rebuilding everything, including their right to be heard. It ran at Theatre Lab, the acting school that became my partner and my program's home. Watch the LifeStories video at Phelps →

The Documentary

In 2018, HBO featured that work in We Are Not Done Yet, a documentary with Jeffrey Wright about veterans using creative expression to heal. I sat for a series of interviews with Jeffrey during the production and the press cycle that followed, including appearances on Salon and iHeartRadio. The cameras captured what I already knew. When you give someone a safe space and a stage, what comes out of them changes everyone in the room.

The Mountain

In 2024, I climbed Kilimanjaro with an amazing Tribe. I reached Stella Point, the crater rim right below the summit. Not every summit is the top of the mountain. Sometimes the summit is the decision to go, the people beside you, and the proof that your body and your spirit can carry you further than any system said you could go.

The Scale

Today I build neuroinclusive environments as an AI Wellness Architect. Systems that solve the problem my own research identified: the gap between an intervention that works and the unsupported environment people return to. The Lifeline System. Complexity Season. Breaking the 80% Wall. These aren't apps. They're the room made permanent. The voice made sustainable. The methodology made available to every person who's been told their brain doesn't fit.