I’m a strategic designer, craftswoman and farmer, sensing and creating my way towards systems change.

All of my work draws on an intrinsic motivation to empower one another and forge systems change for a more just and caring world. I’ve been lucky to develop educational programming around material reuse, food sovereignty and alter-economics; To design logistics for large-scale material recuperation and Community Supported Agriculture deliveries; And to offer facilitative leadership and action-oriented strategy in my collaborative work.

My strengths lie in my ability to sense, listen and connect as well as, in my affection for planning, strategizing, organizing and getting things done. I also rely on my dexterity in a great variety of artistic mediums which lends well to visual thinking in collaborative processes and creative problem solving.

COMMENSALITY & EMANCIPATION

Fall 2019.

Written in the context of a senior level class in the Design Arts Bachelors at Concordia University, this research essay aimed to contribute to the broader culture of design knowledge and to recapitulate as well as elaborate upon the ideas I found most poignant in my degree. Commensality & Emancipation is a personal investigation into the systemic issues of neoliberal capitalism and the potential of critical, socially-engaged design in food systems. I bring together ideas of ‘social infrastructure’, ‘commensality’ and ‘food sovereignty’ with social justice, alternative economies and anti-capitalism in mind.

The design of the essay alludes to the aesthetic of corporate food marketing schemes through colour and symbolism.