Our culture prizes data, speed, and optimization, but we forget that creativity, imagination, and relationship are what make life meaningful. We treat the arts as a luxury, but nothing could be further from the truth. They are the language of our inner life and of our shared resilience.

I believe the next frontier of cultural health lies in re-weaving creativity into the systems that shape us: education, medicine, and community life. When we engage in expressive process through story, image, sound, and movement, we remember how to feel, connect, grow, and adapt. These capacities are not soft skills; they are survival skills for a world in transition.

My work bridges expressive arts, narrative, and embodied practice to help individuals and institutions reengage with this creative intelligence. Whether through research, teaching, or community practice, I want to help build a culture where creativity is treated as a vital, daily contributor to human well-being, not an extracurricular indulgence.

More art is always welcome, but my goal is not production, it’s cultural transformation. I want to leave a legacy of systems and frameworks that will result in a more artful society, one that values curiosity over certainty, connection over control, and creativity as an everyday wellbeing practice.