About

Note: This page is a work in progress and is currently being updated (November 2022).

Personal Statement

I am a heritage keeper of American mountain folkways including white settler and multiracial ancestors from the Appalachian South and New England. I share ethnobotany, herbalism, music, and other folk arts for education, regulation, and redemption. I make potions. I offer poison ivy removal. I use the domestic, feminine, ephemeral, and soft to create desired objects that deliver sensory experiences and transfer information. I make art to ask questions about our bodies and power in our culture.

Education

Smith College (Northampton, MA) Coursework in anthropology, English, geology (2002-2005) 

Sinclair Community College (Dayton, OH) Coursework in film and digital photography and Appalachian studies (2006)

The Ohio State University (Columbus, OH), BA in Anthropology, dual minor in Sexuality Studies and Studio Art (2009)

Tufts School of Public Health (Medford, MA) New Entry Sustainable Farm Program Farm Business Planning Course Graduate (2012)

Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism (Plainfield, VT): Clinical and Family Herbalism Program (2021-Present)

Research Experience

Reference Assistant, Smith College Libraries (Northampton, MA: 2002-2004)

Research Assistant to Dr. Erika Bourguignon, Professor Emerita, The Ohio State University (Columbus, OH: 2007-2009)

 

Teaching Experience

The Ohio State University (Columbus, OH) Art 331 (Warm Glass) Teaching assistant  to Aimee Sones, MA (2008) 

Presentations

Herbs for Trauma, The Center for Community Resilience after Trauma (Greenfield, MA: 2022)

Ancestral Genealogy Workshop, self led (2022)

Publications

Volume: Ann Arbor Youth Poetry Project (2000, 2002)

Labrys, Smith College Poetry Journal (2002, 2003)

Works Exhibited

Robert Frost, cut paper, 6” by 36”, shown at Agora: The Couchfire Collective, 2005.

Exhibitions to which I contributed my labor 

Ann Hamilton Studio. Human Carriage. The Guggenheim (New York, NY: 2009).

Awards

Mary Maples Dunn Scholar, Smith College (2002-2004)

Special Trainings 

Certificate in Trauma-Informed Herbalism in Clinical Practice, American Herbalists Guild Symposium (Asheville, NC: 2021)

When the Conversation Turns to Suicide, Wildflower Alliance (Holyoke, MA) January 2022

NAMI Peer Support Training (Pittsfield, MA) September - December 2021

Wintergreen Botanicals (Allentown, NH) Home Herbalism and Beyond Home Herbalism series with Maria Noel Groves, RH, AHG (2011-2012)

Community Service 

Natural Resources Steward, State of New Hampshire and University of New Hampshire (2012-2014)

Professional Affiliations

Student Member of American Herbalists Guild (2020-2022)

Member, United Plant Savers (2020-2022)

New Hampshire Master Gardeners and Natural Resources Stewards Continuing Education Committee (2012-2014)