I help organizations bring people into complex projects, connect what they contribute, and make progress visible.
WHERE THIS WORK FITS
Healthcare & Public Health · Universities & Community-Engaged Research · Public agencies, Planning & Redevelopment ·
Recovery & Resilience Initiatives · Foundations & Intermediaries · Cultural & Civic Institutions
Participation shouldn't disappear into a meeting log or a PDF.
I design participatory processes where people — residents, patients, students, staff, and partners — can contribute lived experience, see their voices reflected, and leave behind visible evidence of shared concerns, priorities, and hope.
173 days of independently sustained participation
— The Ties That Bind Asheville
Permanent healthcare campus installation
— Medical University of South Carolina
Engaged over 100 people in art making + CBPR-informed research methodology
— University of Florida
Institutions hire me when engagement has to produce documented outcomes, not just participation numbers.
How the method works
STEP 1
Engagement structure
I design how participation will happen: low-barrier ways for people to contribute across the life of a project, not just at one meeting.
STEP 2
Visual participatory method
People contribute through making and material processes that keep participation accessible, visible, and memorable.
STEP 3
Qualitative documentation
Contributions are listened to, documented, and synthesized into themes your team, partners, and funders can use.
STEP 4
Public-facing record
The process leaves a visible record — an installation, display, or archive — that keeps communicating after the facilitated work ends.