I bring over twenty years’ experience shaping stories for museums, heritage institutions, and places across the UK and the U.S. My practice moves between writing, interpretive strategy, and community engagement—driven by a belief that imagination is a form of critical infrastructure, essential to navigating the complexities of now.
Before relocating to the UK in 2003, I worked at institutions such as the Franklin Institute, MoMA, and the American Museum of Natural History. These early experiences grounded me in the value of public institutions—and in the urgent need to remake them with care, rigour, and humility. I work with an iterative, human-centred design approach: testing, listening, reworking—always returning to the question: who is this for, and who speaks?
I also maintain a socially engaged arts practice centring on the art of invitation—through conversation, materials, and shared attention. While not formally trained as an artist, my work is relational and participatory: tending to the space between people, disciplines, pasts and possible futures.
I am co-founder of Narrative Threads and the Cultural Futures Lab, and an associate at The Place Bureau, which uses narrative as a strategic tool for place-making. Across all strands of my work, I’m asking: how might we live more attentively—with one another, with the more-than-human world, and with time? I see my practice as cultivating common ground—a kind of visible mending, between people, histories, and the more-than-human, in the face of fragmentation.