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Designer / Educator / Researcher

I build spaces, programs, and the room for people to make. My work learns from craft and from the knowledge held in materials, land, and community.

EXPERIENCE

2026
Tec de Monterrey · Adjunct Professor
Industrial Design + Architecture Foundations

2026
Boston Architectural College · Professor
Community Practice Foundations

2019
NuVu Innovation School · Program Designer
NuVuX Global Education Program

2018
Some Projects LLC · Founder + Designer
Design + Research Practice

2018
Deft Union · Fabrication Producer
Narrative environments + fabrication

2017
DownCity Design · Design Educator
Youth design-build + community projects

TEACHING + ACADEMIA

2026
Rhode Island School of Design · Guest Critic
Interior Architecture

2023
Rhode Island School of Design · Guest Lecturer
Fashion Department

2021
University of Tennessee · Visiting Lecturer
School of Interior Architecture

2018
Rhode Island School of Design · Graduate Educator
Interior Architecture

2017
Rhode Island School of Design · Lecturer
Interior Architecture

2017
Rhode Island School of Design · Invited Critic
Narrative Environments Thesis Reviews

SELECTED COURSES

Community Practice
Foundations of Digital Fabrication
Creative Methods
Creative Processes & Innovation
Engineered Landscapes
Textiles and Memory
Designing for Public Impact
Prototyping Studio

RESEARCH

2026
Vessels · Independent Research + Objects

2022
Brand History + Design Research · Researcher
Visual + material culture, archival research + storytelling

2020
Material + Indigenous Design Practices · Field Research
Southwestern U.S. + Mexico

2019
Design, Culture + Ecology · Independent Research
Material culture + indigenous knowledge systems

2019
Hawaiʻi Tourism Authority + Kamehameha Schools Foundation · Cultural Research Consultant
Sustainable tourism + intergenerational knowledge

2017
Rhode Island School of Design · Graduate Research Assistant
Research on repair, material culture + the built environment

LECTURES + INVITATIONS

2023
“Active Learning: Innovation in Education Delivery”
International School Leaders Conference, London

2023
“Many Hands, Many Voices: Textile Histories and Entanglements in the Americas”
Rhode Island School of Design

2021
“The Black Utopia: Repair, Reparations and Design Activism”
University of Tennessee

2019
“Reject Design: The Maroons of the Past, Present and Future”
Charlestown International Maroon Conference, Jamaica

2018
“Engineered Landscapes”
RISD Museum, Providence

2018
“Superkilen Repairs”
Design History Society Annual Conference, University of Oslo

EXHIBITIONS

2024
Refugio de Luz · Curator
Koik Contemporary Gallery, Mexico City

2018
Repair and Design Futures · Exhibition Designer
RISD Museum, Providence

2018
Reject Design · Artist
RISD Interior Architecture Biennale

2018
Designing Traditions · Curator + Exhibition Designer
RISD Museum, Providence

2016
What's The Plan, Investigating Interiority · Artist / Co-Creator
Rhode Island School of Design

2012
Dream the World Awake: Walter Van Beirendonck · Scenographer + Production Designer
MoMu, Antwerp