My creative/professional/educational practice is focused on relational heritage and land-based storytelling. I am also the founder of TaiwanGROWS, a collective of local growers, practitioners, and storytellers that together support hosting and community-building for environmental regeneration and rural revitalization.

I work toward rural resilience and long-term collaboration. This takes a lot of forms but mostly, it 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, designer, and project manager with a background in journalism and multimedia. 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 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.