An ecology of practices.

A neuroballet in which dancers perform while live EEG turns their brain activity into sound and image. I was on the research team throughout: I ran measurements, fitted performers with EEG caps and rigged the mobile EEG backpacks, contributed to the visualization code, and helped with the analysis that shaped its signal filters. I was backup performer for one of the on-stage researcher roles and helped run the performances. The work was covered in The New York Times.

A networked installation, shown in 2025 at four sites across Virginia: the Torpedo Factory Art Center and Virginia Tech's Innovation Campus in Alexandria, the Taubman Museum of Art in Roanoke, and the Cube at the Moss Arts Center in Blacksburg. Each kiosk paired a real carved stone with a virtual one. Touch the stone and you felt, through a haptic device, someone touching its twin at another site, while footage of the carvers, 3D scans of their stones and their brain activity, rendered as images and sound, surrounded you.

It grew out of a study of what stone carving does to the brain and to wellbeing. Twenty carvers from the Backyard Stone Carvers in Newport, Virginia, wore mobile EEG caps while they rested, did guided breathing, filed stone in sync with each other, carved, and critiqued the work, and answered wellbeing surveys before and after. I helped capture media during the sessions and helped with the carving sessions themselves.

I was first author on the draft paper behind our poster at the Society for Neuroscience meeting in 2024, which reported that carving improved mood, mindfulness and social connection, and increased synchrony between the carvers' brains. The full paper is in preparation, and I'm a co-author.

I've taught vinyasa, power and heated classes since 2017, for most of that time at In Balance Yoga in Blacksburg, Virginia, where I trained, alongside Blacksburg Yoga Collective, Sweetgrass Yoga and classes for climbers at Crimper's Climbing Gym. Today I substitute at Threehouse Studios in Durham, North Carolina, and teach in community settings around San Juan.

I also dance, mostly contact improvisation: partners moving through shared weight and touch, improvising together.

The nonprofit behind the town's Main Street program. I've served on its board since 2022: as treasurer from 2022 to 2025, as design chair since 2023, and as vice president since 2025.

A 15-bedroom co-living house and community space. I help run its administration and organize around six events a month: art days, lightning talks, La Sala (a series of intentional conversations), yoga and workshops.