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?
GRANT STRATEGY · DEVELOPMENTAL EDITING · ORGANIZATIONAL STORYTELLING
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
