I am an artist and social geographer.

My work sits at the intersection of creative practice and social geography. I move through the world attuned to how places shape people and how people shape meaning. Landscapes (whether urban cemeteries, city blocks, or rural family plots) are never neutral to me. They are lived spaces, textured by memory, ritual, care, and the quiet histories that accumulate over time.

As both an artist and a geographer, I approach research as a creative act and creative practice as a form of scholarship. My fieldwork often begins with walking, observing, mapping, and listening. Those gestures become drawings, spatial studies, narratives, and visual systems that bring hidden or overlooked layers of place into visibility. I’m particularly drawn to sites where personal memory and public history blur, where the everyday holds traces of the past, and where communities negotiate belonging and loss.

Across my projects, I’m interested in how we inhabit landscapes and how we remember, maintain, adapt, and imagine them. My work builds bridges between analysis and atmosphere, data and story, documentation and care. Ultimately, I seek to create work that helps others experience places not just as coordinates or artifacts, but as dynamic, living worlds shaped by the people who move through them.

I am currently working on a collective book of my work, Mapping the Liminal.

Who am I beyond my geographic work?

I love learning. I've designed my life around the goal of constantly growing, evolving, and making the world a better place through artistic process. I get antsy when I haven't traveled recently. I love cemeteries. I thrive in cities where time and people move as quickly as my brain but find solace dancing at home. I find the world of higher education to be dynamic and ever changing and welcome the challenges and excitement that brings. I love to collaborate. I am ambitious. I am a maker. I am a mandolinist. I am a perpetual student. I am creative. I am excited for whatever comes next.

I am currently based in Chicago, Illinois with my three beloved boys - the most brilliant, the most concerned, and the most unable to wear shoes.