About Me

I received my degrees in Journalism and Environmental Science in 2017 from Ohio University. After working through school as an environmental reporter and photographer, I moved back to Portland in spring of 2017 and joined the team at Trackers Earth -  an outdoor education and rewilding organization. There, I worked as an outdoor educator for preschool age students who specialized in incorporating socio-emotional learning into traditional and ancestral skill acquisition, for example: fire, archery, gardening, and herbalism. It was at Trackers that I first discovered my love for fungus.

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After leaving Trackers in 2020, I helped to found NW Adventure Company (Then PDX Education Collab) as a COVID era, "pod teacher." As NWAC grew, so did my responsibilities there, and I took on the roles of tech support, branding, graphic design, and social media. 

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I've always loved nature, as evidenced by my photography, and have always been fascinated by the connections that living things foster in order to thrive. These systems have held my attention and driven my persistent hunger for information. Moreover, these systems became the inception and influence for the Intuitive Teaching Method, a pedagogic foundation that I employ myself and strive to share with others. It is through these unorthodox symmetries and the fragile balance of ecology that I find inspiration for my art and music.