CONSULTING
Build What Your Values Require:
I help artists, cultural organizations, and mission-driven teams transform ambitious ideas into programs, narratives, and structures that people can actually inhabit.
Through cultural strategy, program design, grant development, and facilitation, I build the connective tissue between vision and practice.
WHAT I OFFER
Cultural Strategy · Program Design · Grant Development
Community Engagement · Facilitation · Organizational Storytelling
SELECTED PROJECTS & COLLABORATIONS
Strategy in Practice
CAROLINA PERFORMING ARTS
Poetry in the Round
Love, Hope, and the Poems That Hold Us
CURATORIAL STRATEGY · PARTICIPATORY DESIGN · FACILITATION
As a curating poet and Open Gatherings partner for Carolina Performing Arts’ 2027 ALL. TOGETHER. NOW. festival, I am designing and facilitating an intimate poetry-in-the-round experience centered on love, hope, and collective imagination.
I will curate three Triangle-area poets, shape the gathering’s artistic sequence, and invite audience members into the circle through listening, reflection, and optional poem-sharing.
MY CONTRIBUTION
Artist curation · Participatory experience design · Creative direction · Audience engagement · Accessibility planning · Facilitation
In development · February 2027
BENEVOLENCE FARM
What Does Abolition Require?
ABOLITIONIST STRATEGY · GRANT DEVELOPMENT · ORGANIZATIONAL ANALYSIS
THE ENGAGEMENT
THE STRATEGIC SHIFT
Provided developmental review and strategic analysis for a major grant proposal supporting Benevolence Farm’s work alongside formerly incarcerated women and gender-expansive people.
My feedback centered a foundational question: What does it mean for abolition to operate not only as a stated value, but as an organizational practice?
I examined how structural empowerment becomes visible through the organization’s everyday choices: whose knowledge shapes decisions, how directly impacted people move into leadership, how conflict is addressed, how accountability to people who have experienced harm is held, and how resources and institutional power are redistributed in the service of repair.
This analysis helped strengthen the proposal’s articulation of abolition, justice, and reparative practice while connecting those commitments to the organization’s program model and internal structures.
MY CONTRIBUTION
Strategic analysis · Grant narrative development · Abolitionist program framing · Developmental editing · Organizational storytelling
PROJECT SCALE
Three cohorts · 45 countries
171 interviews · 406 surveys
Three years of longitudinal research
FROM FINDINGS TO THE FIELD
I contributed research and analysis to the resulting public report, translating participants’ experiences into accessible findings for nonprofit partners, funders, and the wider social-change community. Alongside this evaluation work, my grant writing helped secure $15,000 in additional support for wellbeing programming.
The work demonstrated that wellbeing is not separate from social change. Supporting the people doing transformative work can deepen their leadership, reshape their organizations, and strengthen the movements they sustain.
MY CONTRIBUTION
Developmental evaluation · Background research and literature review · Interview and survey design · Qualitative coding and analysis · Research reporting · Grant strategy and writing · Stakeholder communication
TERRALUNA COLLABORATIVE
How Do We Measure Inner Change?
DEVELOPMENTAL EVALUATION · QUALITATIVE RESEARCH · GRANT WRITING
THE ENGAGEMENT
As a developmental evaluator and grant writer with TerraLuna Collaborative, I supported a three-year longitudinal study of The Wellbeing Project’s 18-month Inner Development Program. The program combined retreats, peer support, webinars with wisdom teachers, and individual coaching to help seasoned changemakers cultivate their mental, physical, and spiritual wellbeing.
The larger research effort followed three cohorts of changemakers across 45 countries, examining how sustained inner work could transform participants’ relationships with themselves, their organizations, and the broader field of social change.
CARE AS RESEARCH PRACTICE
Because the project examined burnout and work-life imbalance, our research process could not reproduce the culture of depletion it was studying. I helped create flexible interview protocols and a conversational environment free from judgment when participants struggled to make time for their own wellbeing.
My work included background research, literature review, survey development, participant interviews, interview briefs, and collaborative qualitative coding in MAXQDA. I analyzed emerging themes—including vulnerability, openness, self-awareness, and more intentional choices around rest, nourishment, movement, and care—to help the team understand gradual changes that could not be captured through conventional measures alone.
CAROLINA PRISON MUSIC INITIATIVE
There Is a World Behind This Wire
MUSIC EDUCATION · EXHIBITION DEVELOPMENT · PUBLIC HUMANITIES
As Project Manager and Postdoctoral Fellow, I help shape the Carolina Prison Music Initiative as more than a series of music classes. My work asks what abolitionist practice can make possible even within the infrastructure of incarceration.
That means moving beyond access alone. It means creating pathways through which incarcerated participants can develop as artists: receiving sustained training, performing their work, documenting what they create, entering public conversations, and seeing their art circulate beyond prison walls.
FEATURED IN
The Local Reporter
From Listening Circles to Re-Entry Plans: The Work of the Carolina Prison Music Initiative
Pamir Kiciman · January 2026
LOVE AS AN ABOLITIONIST PRACTICE
I designed and facilitated a workshop grounded in bell hooks’s understanding of love as an action—a way of showing up through care, recognition, responsibility, and commitment. Participants reflected on what it feels like to be loved, what they need in order to experience love, and what love requires from us in practice.
I shared my poem “A World Behind This Wire,” creating an opening through which we could imagine incarcerated people not as subjects of correction, but as artists, thinkers, and world-builders.
AN EXHIBITION IN DEVELOPMENT
“There Is a World Behind This Wire” is a developing exhibition concept bringing together songs, paintings, poetry, lyrics, recordings, and other creative work by CPMI participants.
The project asks: What worlds exist behind prison walls that most people never get to see?
I am developing relationships with museums and community partners to explore exhibition, performance, and public-programming opportunities while considering how participants and their families can remain centered in the presentation and circulation of their work.
MY CONTRIBUTION
Abolitionist program strategy · Artist development · Workshop design and facilitation · Exhibition curation · Public humanities · Institutional partnership development
HOW I WORK
How the Work Takes Shape
Name the Real Question
I listen for the unresolved question underneath a project: the place where its stated values, lived relationships, and existing structures have not yet fully met.
Build What the Vision Requires
I translate that question into a program, narrative, partnership, gathering, curriculum, or public experience with a clear shape and purpose.
Make Room for People to Shape It
I design with participation, access, power, and relationship in mind, creating structures that can be changed by the people who inhabit them.
HAVE A PROJECT TAKING SHAPE?
Let’s Think About What It Could Become
I work with artists, cultural organizations, universities, and community-rooted teams seeking thoughtful support with programs, funding narratives, partnerships, facilitation, and public humanities projects.