Bio

On the job

My current job is Program Coordinator at a printed circuit board company in Bellevue, where I facilitate procurement, schedule, and delivery coordination for the design and manufacture of printed circuit boards. It's an opportunity to train project management skills in a specialized and unique environment. 

In 2024, I completed the University of Washington's Certificate in User Experience Design. Since then I've done some odd jobs in website design for several local small businesses. 

My background

I was born in Oakland, CA and grew up all over the west coast. My earliest memories are of art and music and cooking. 

After completing a BA in Ethnomusicology at UCLA's School of Arts and Architecture, I went on to work for NPR and the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage as an analog audio conservator and digital audio storyteller. My goal was to make sounds accessible, useable, revived.

In 2019 and 2020, I traveled to France to participate in sound art and field recording workshops at CAMP in the Pyrenees mountains,  specifically studying ecoacoustics with Annea Lockwood and Leah Barlcay.

Some recent sound art work can be found through Cities and Memory, a field recording project based in the UK. This installation was featured at the C40 Mayors Summit in Buenos Aires, 2022. 

I sew and I make jewelry, I play the flute... and lately I've been learning to meditate.