I build ecosystems for rural revitalization and international exchange. My work is focused on socially responsive program design, and rural resilience based on long-term collaboration. This means slowing conversations down to bring more people into the room and find shared language for the risks we want to take together.

I am a bilingual educator, reporter, and project manager with a background in journalism, design, and educational programming. I hold an M.S. in Sustainability and Disaster Management, where my food systems research focused on community systems and project-based storytelling.

Over the past decade, I’ve collaborated with educator, researcher, producer/farmer, and local community partners in the U.S. and Taiwan on designing place-based, regenerative, and community-centered learning. My community resilience studio TaiwanGROWS is focused on agroecology education and regenerative agritourism, supported by Taiwan’s MOA Agency of Rural Development and Soil and Water Conservation (ARDSWC) Rural Youth Revitalization Program.