—bio

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I am a multidisciplinary artist, facilitator, and full-spectrum doula working between Richmond, Virginia, and Berlin, Germany. My practice brings together somatic storytelling, embodied performance training, and doula-informed facilitation, creating participatory, community-based spaces grounded in lived experience, care, and collective transformation.

I hold a BFA in Dance and Choreography from Virginia Commonwealth University and have worked as a performance artist across Richmond, New York City, and Berlin. My dance background continues to inform my approach to movement research, performance training, and creative education, with an emphasis on relationality and process.

Since 2016, I have worked in reproductive care as a full-spectrum doula, beginning with the Richmond Reproductive Freedom Project and later co-founding the Richmond Doula Project, where I worked for five years. My training includes Ancient Song Doula Services, Center for Doula Pathways, and Doula Trainings International. This work grounds my commitment to reproductive justice, abortion support, and care-based, non-directive practices.

My facilitation practice is rooted in community organizing and education. I worked as a Conflict Resolution Facilitator and Youth Program Director at the Richmond Peace Education Center and co-founded The Richmond Peace Team, a mutual aid collective formed during the COVID-19 pandemic. These experiences shape my approach to facilitation training and community-based workshops.

I design and lead somatic storytelling workshops, embodied performance training, and doula-informed facilitation trainings in cultural and educational contexts, including Tanzfabrik, Impulstage/Lake Studios, 90mil, Berlin Cosmopolitan School, and co-developed Senate-funded somatic workshops for students in Willkommensklassen at Ruth-Cohn-Schule.

Based in Berlin, I work as an art educator, facilitate somatic storytelling and movement workshops, host ongoing abortion storytelling circles at Schokofabrik Frauenzentrum, and am honored to continue to accompany pregnant people and their families through pregnancy, birth, abortion, and postpartum experiences.

—offerings

  • Abortion Preparation & Accompaniment

  • Birth Preparation & Accompaniment

  • Postpartum Preparation & Accompaniment

  • Conflict Transformation Workshop (All Ages)

  • Somatic Exploration Workshop for Young People

  • Dance Performance and Dramaturg Consultation

  • Collaborative Cultural Workshops intersecting somatics and reproductive care

  • Early Childhood Education (Kindergarten Educator)

  • Artistic Research and community-based inquiry

—trainings

  • Kleine Schule: Workshop on Eco‑Social Justice and Transformative Pedagogy for Educators, Spore Initiative — 2024

  • Agri/Cultural Practices for Climate Justice Workshop, Oyoun — 2023

  • 20‑hour Loving Support Breastfeeding Peer Counselor Training — 2021

  • Doula Immersion, Center for Doula Pathways — 2020

  • Birth and Postpartum Doula Certification, Doula Trainings International — 2019

  • Abortion Doula Training, Full Spectrum Doula Circle — 2018

  • National Organizing Conference, National Network of Abortion Funds — 2018

  • Mental Health First Aid Certification, National Council for Mental Well‑Being — 2018

  • Decolonizing Birth Conference, Ancient Song Doula Services — 2017

  • Full‑Spectrum Doula Training, Ancient Song Doula — 2016

  • Restorative Justice Circle Facilitation Training, Kay Pranis — 2016

  • Trauma Responsiveness Training, Healing and Rebuilding Our Communities — 2016

  • Conflict Resolution Facilitation Certification, Richmond Peace Education Center — 2015

  • Undoing Racism and Community Organizing Training, People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond — 2014

  • B.F.A., Dance and Choreography, Virginia Commonwealth University — 2013