Ideas gain power when they’re shared, tested, and reimagined.

This space gathers my contributions across media, publications, and speaking engagements — each one an invitation to think differently about healing, belonging, and the futures we can design with care.

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Awards & Fellowships

Speaking & Facilitation

Youth Innovators Fellowship – ReThink Citizen (2025)
Facilitated storytelling for social change workshop and catalyzing imagination sessions with youth innovators from diverse Midwest communities.

Foundation for Social Connection – Intergenerational Dialogue Series (2025)
Led participatory dialogues on AI, technology, and intergenerational connection in partnership with Joint Family, bridging youth and elder perspectives.

Beyond Awareness — For You Page, UN Science Summit at UN General Assembly (2025)
Panelist on The Power of Connection: Fostering Social Support for Youth Wellbeing, highlighting youth-driven mental health advocacy and relational civic ecosystems.

Digital Health Week — PLOS Digital Health & DTH-Lab (2025)
Panelist on Building Trust, Literacy, and Participation in the Digital Health Era, exploring Gen-Z media literacy, health futures, and digital participation.

Mobility, Adaptation, and Wellbeing in a Changing Climate — Columbia Climate School (MR2025)
Co-facilitated workshop, Crafting a Shared Story for Resilience in Transitions, guiding participants through narrative and ecological resilience exercises rooted in solastalgia, belonging, and transition design.

The Wellbeing Project Global Gathering (2024)
Facilitated conversations on ecological belonging and intergenerational healing with global social-change leaders, integrating art, systems thinking, and dialogue practice.

Bearing Witness: Class Lecture, Georgetown University (2023)
Guest lecture on trauma-informed approaches to systems change, narrative strategy, and intergenerational wellbeing.

Publications

  • Why It’s Easier to Joke About the Apocalypse Than Imagine a Better Community

    Timeleft

  • Is Gen Z Too Emotionally Literate to Feel?

    Thred Media

  • “Ecological Belonging: Weaving People, Purpose and Planet”

    Network of Wellbeing

  • The Digital Crossroads: Media Literacy and the Future of Youth online

    PLOS Digital Health

  • Transforming Higher Education: Building Trauma-Informed Communities for Healing and Intergenerational Wellbeing

    The ADVANCE OSU Journal - Vol. 5, Issue 1, 2024

Media Features

  • The Journey Framework

    Georgetown University Red House

  • Navigating Generative AI and Youth Social Connection Through Intergenerational Conversation

    Foundation for Social Connection

  • Georgetown Expands Commitment to Mental Health Services for University Community

    Georgetown University Press Release

  • FreeState Justice/One Love Instagram Live Highlights Inclusive Curriculum

    FreeState Justice and One Love Collaboration

  • The With Intention Podcast

    Episode: Media Literacy and Artificial Intimacy with Kendall Bryant and Hannah Folau