I’m a Boston-based scholar, facilitator, writer, and naturalist passionate about disrupting the forces that dispossess us of our own earthly consciousness and authentic sense of belonging. My projects integrate a multidisciplinary array of scholarly resources, folk knowledges, and embodied practices to nurture an earthly sense of agency, community, wonder, and aliveness.

A Little Backstory

Following a series of formative professional experiences within the fields of mental health and higher education, I developed a deep and abiding interest in prevailing conceptions of knowledge (including what counts as knowledge, how we come to know, and who can be a knower) as well as their limitations in a more-than-human world brimming with mystery.

Since 2017, I have been engaged in experiments dedicated to freeing consciousness from various types of enclosures including mainstream sites of learning and healing, and prevailing ways of knowing that devalue bodily knowledge (and other extracognitive intelligences), disavow neurodiversity, and obscure our place as vital components of an intelligent, living world. My portfolio of projects speak to these broad concerns in multiple registers and locations: on abstract and embodied levels, from the traditional classroom to the forest floor, and with audiences ranging from the general public to communities whose knowledge practices have been devalued and misrecognized.

Current Work

I am a PhD student in history of science at Harvard University where my current scholarly project examines the history of mind sciences and intersections with African American Studies. This research agenda is informed by my past training and work as a psychotherapist at the UCSF Department of Psychiatry and in other settings, as well as continuing education in various critical paradigms that complement prevailing psychodynamic and behavioral approaches.

I hold two additional roles within the Harvard community: (1) Convene the Black Critical Thought Group within Harvard's Department of Comparative Literature and (2) conduct research on the relationship between slavery and the founding of Harvard Medical School as a research assistant at their Center for the History of Medicine. Learn more about these endeavors here.

Outside of Harvard, I operate two independent ventures: (1) Our Wild Minds through which I leverage my psychotherapeutic training to support gifted BIPOC adults and (2) Storied Grounds through which I offer virtual learning tools and occasional events that foster connection to the natural world. Learn more about these endeavors here.

Education

— Ph.D. History of Science, Harvard University (in progress)
— M.S.W. Clinical Social Work, Smith College School for Social Work
— B.A. Sociology and Anthropology, Swarthmore College

— Certificate in Ecopsychology, Pacifica Graduate Institute

Plus ongoing training through various institutes in various disciplines relevant to my work.