Participatory Artist. Strategist. Time Traveler.

Art as a portal to new worlds.

I use art, story, and collective imagination to open up what's possible, and bring people together to shape what comes next.

Illustrated portrait of a Black woman surrounded by planets, stars, and silhouetted figures.
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Biography

I’m an NYC-based community artist, storyteller, facilitator, and creative strategist based in New York City. For more than 15 years, I’ve worked across 20 countries alongside grassroots movements, communities, schools and school districts, nonprofits, international organizations, and global movements.

My practice moves between art and design, futures thinking and visioning, and creative strategy, sometimes weaving all three together and sometimes going deep into one. I might create the visual world for an idea, facilitate a process that helps people imagine what could come next, or build the creative strategy that turns a big vision into something people can see, feel, participate in, and make their own.

My work is rooted in story and made through collaboration. I move between illustration, photography, animation, collage, mixed media, participatory design, and immersive experiences, whatever a project needs to come alive.

But making the work is only part of the practice. I design ways for people to enter into it: bringing communities together to surface stories and collective memory, facilitating teams through questions about the future, or building participatory processes where people can imagine, make, and shape something together.

Depending on the project, I might work independently, embed with an existing team, co-create directly with a community, or assemble a network of artists, designers, facilitators, and other collaborators around an idea. There’s no single style or formula; the people, purpose, and possibilities of each project shape what we make and how we make it.

I’m the founder of The Linocut, my creative home, named for a printmaking tradition that has long put art into the hands of ordinary people as a tool for expression, resistance, and change.

I’m also Co-Founder of Resistance Communications, a creative collective working alongside communities and movements for justice, and Co-Founder of Vision Not Victim, a global participatory program supporting girls to reimagine their stories and lead change in their communities.

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Selected clients

  • Planned Parenthood
  • World Health Organization
  • Teach For America Innovation Lab
  • Stanford University Graduate School of Design
  • International Rescue Committee
  • TransLash
  • Front Line Defenders
  • HIAS
  • Sanctuary for Families
  • Tahirih Justice Center
  • SXSW Edu
  • CARE International
  • Center for Love and Justice
  • Collective Futures Fund
  • People's Bill of Rights 250
  • Voces Latinas
  • Helen Keller International
  • Shelterforce
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Featured media

BBC

ABC

CNN

The Washington Post

Ms. Magazine

Vanity Fair

Le Monde

BuzzFeed

WIRED

Newsweek

Refinery 29

Der Spiegel

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Exhibitions & presentations

  1. United NationsVision Not Victim · exhibition during the UN General Assembly refugee & migrant summit
  2. PhotovilleDUMBO, Brooklyn · outdoor exhibition
  3. U.S. CongressVision Not Victim · hearing presentation
  4. Museum of the African Diaspora, San FranciscoVision Not Victim: Congolese girls fighting against violence and dreaming of their futures · event
  5. International exhibitionsParticipant stories, portraits, and advocacy across the globe · including London, Brussels, Istanbul, Amsterdam, Beirut
  6. Public billboardsHuman Rights Defenders · global campaign
  7. U.S. gallery showsLos Angeles, New York City, Salt Lake City, Phoenix
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Selected work

A spread of Infinite Imagination prompt cards with illustrated portraits and questions.A young girl portrayed as an astronaut in a spacesuit with a Syrian flag patch against a starfield.Illustrated Transcestors cards fanned out on a lavender background.A comic-style grid of portraits for TransLash: Living Their Legacy, Creating Our Future.Collage portrait of a woman crowned by a halo of piano keys and layered natural imagery.Profile portrait of a woman whose hair holds planets, moons, and small figures.Portrait of a girl in beaded Maasai collar wearing an astronaut helmet against a red sky.Futurescaping playbook cover with two Nevadans in a colorful imagined desert landscape.Participants carrying illustrated portrait posters through a city street procession.A person holding a large illustrated poster of a densely packed crowd of portraits.A roadside bus shelter billboard featuring a portrait of Mekfoula Mint Ibrahim of Mauritania.Red and blue collage of protest scenes with a banner reading We Will Never Give Up.Audience watching a large projected artwork during an evening exhibition event.The Freedom Theatre Feminist Theatre Festival logo — a woman's face half red, half white with closed eyes, beside a circle of keffiyeh pattern and curved white lines.Meredith Hutchison speaking into a microphone beside a collaborator in front of an interactive installation of handwritten notes on a silver tree.Panel discussion in a lecture hall with an Octavia Butler quote about change projected large on the screen behind three seated speakers.Portrait of a young photographer kneeling in a studio, holding a camera to their eyeDense illustrated crowd of people of many backgrounds holding books, tools and flowersBold black-and-white mural portrait of a bearded man pasted on a brick wallIllustration of neighbours joining hands in a circle around a village of small housesTarot-style card titled Place showing a purple flower blooming over a classical staircaseCollage of a hand raising a yellow megaphone against planets and swirling galaxiesBook cover for How to Time Travel: a cosmic collage of planets, nebulae and clouds with a lone figure gazing up, reading Go back, go forward, play, experiment, make mischief, and discover your place in the universe, all in one journal.Smiling woman in a red headscarf and grey shawl photographed against a dark backdropGirl in surgical scrubs standing with arms crossed in front of adult doctorsGreyscale portrait of a laughing woman overlaid with bold orange hand-painted letters reading If you don't know what to believe anymore, believe in yourself.Illustrated poster honouring Frances Thompson holding a parasol, with her story in textWoman in a pilot uniform smiling from the controls of an aircraft cockpitFigure entirely covered in pink blossoms standing in a pastel cloudscapePortrait of a young man with soft clouds resting on his shouldersPortrait of an elder woman in maroon beside a list of I am affirmationsYoung woman with braided hair haloed by an orange sun above a starry desertBlack-and-white raised fist collaged over hot pink and blue brushstrokesBlue campaign poster of a hand launching a paper plane folded from the U.S. Constitution, reading They're playing with our rights. for People's Bill of Rights 250Woman in a vivid pink dress and headwrap standing before an orange sun and blue shacksPoster reading T4T love is a radical act of resistance surrounded by embracing couplesChild in a full white astronaut suit standing in a pool of lightTarot-style card titled Our Story collaging many family photographs and flowersHand-lettered poster of a woman in red among roses declaring she exists in spite of themParticipants at a workshop table looking at printed materials and foilWall of participant collage portraits mixing photographs, painted suns, hands and hand-written words of identity and hope.Masked participants gathered around a workshop table cutting and arranging printed portrait collages with scissors and glue.Painted portrait of a woman with a glowing anatomical heart and trailing leavesTwo figures holding hands, each standing inside a giant dandelion seed headReport cover, Are We Listening, showing a woman in a blue headscarf looking to cameraIllustration of large hands reaching down to tend a hillside of small housesComic-style illustration of a doctor holding up a chest x-ray against a yellow starburstAnatomical heart painted with the American flag on black, reading We are the beating heart of America, for People's Bill of Rights 250Two figures in orange robes with mirrors for faces beneath a total solar eclipseFamily seated together on patterned blankets inside a tent shelterComic page about U.S. school boards becoming the frontlines of a political battleWoman turning in profile as her figure dissolves into rushing blue waterIllustration of students and teachers learning together across a starry classroom sceneProfile portrait of a young woman with dandelion seeds drifting from her eyeBlue poster of adhesive bandages stuck across the words Education, Jobs, Money in Politics, Housing, Climate, Safety, Healthcare and Affordability, asking when we stop putting band-aids on our broken system and start rewriting the rulesTarot-style card titled Liberation showing a young man with clouds at his shouldersCollage of figures, star charts and geometry imagining possible futuresComic page titled The Anti-Trans Hate Machine explaining organised anti-trans groupsPerson in pink standing in a tunnel filled with billowing pink smokePortrait of a young woman in magenta light with gold hand-lettering across her face reading Your silence will not protect you. But your voice might protect us. for People's Bill of Rights 250Luminous blue figure standing before a shadowy crowd in a dark hallFive women of different generations in profile beneath a giant dandelion sun, seeds drifting on the windA child in water lifting a glowing paper lantern as a crowd of women release lanterns into the nightA lotus of flames rooted in swirling night waters, ringed by smaller fire flowers under a starry skyRed woodcut linocut of an American flag shaped like a house with a gold sun, reading One Nation. One Home. All of Us. for People's Bill of Rights 250Black-and-white linocut titled America the Beautiful: silhouettes of a diverse crowd of adults and children, including a wheelchair user, standing above radiating stripes and a field of stars.Pink satirical poster of a pixelated figure beside a peeled banana reading Too many d*cks. Not enough rights. for People's Bill of Rights 250