I’m an artist, writer, researcher and gatherer. This has shown up in my work in different ways over the years. This is an incomplete list of projects, interests and concerns.

East River Park Life

There once was a park along the East River. I didn’t discover it until walking became my lifeline.

Oil on canvas

For a while, painting was the center of my universe. These are some of my oil paintings in no particular order.

The Experiential Lab

In 2018, I attended a workshop hosted by Priya Parker, and read her book, The Art of Gathering, and got really excited about what becomes possible when people get together.

Be it a business meeting, product launch, birthday dinner or conversation space—a gathering is a temporary world with impactful possibilities.

If you design for it, and by that I mean: decide on and attend to what matters (to you as the host, and to your guests, collaborators, members, colleagues, directors, constituents, and so on) you can inspire true connection and move people.

The Experiential Lab was (and may be again) a gathering to deconstruct and discover the ways to good gathering. We talked through all kinds of events, and invoked The Art of Gathering’s six-stage approach as a guide to re-envisioning the special and the routine events, ceremonies, meetings of our lives. The Lab ran from September 2019 (in-person, monthly meetings in NYC) through July 2020 (then moving online in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown).

If you’re interested in gathering, let me know.

UNDERMININGnormal

UNDERMININGnormal is a digital coffeehouse that I started up during the March 2020 COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. It was a place where we could meet, and have conversations women don’t usually get to have.