About Me
Music and song has been the clearest and most consistent throughline of my life. My father taught me that you never need a “reason” to sing besides the joy of it. Improvisational & expressive music spaces shifted my understanding of music from something to be witnessed to something to be experienced. Through songleading in social movement spaces, I saw how lifting our voices together can create unity, trust, and presence. Stewarding the Boston-Area Singing Circle community has shown the power creating music together has to build meaningful relationships, connections, and support systems. And an ongoing "apprenticeship" to grief revealed how song can guide us into and out of the depths of the soul.
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After years of study, practice, and experimentation as a vocal coach, sound guide, songleader, grief tender, and ritualist while balancing a 9-5 desk job, I am now excited to be launching my private practice and putting my full energy towards my deepest calling: using song as a tool for personal, collective, and spiritual liberation.
I believe...
...that while singing is a birthright of all humans, and that our relationship with our voices is sacred, western society's elevation of “music for performance” over “music for embodiment” has left many of us ostracized from our inherent musical selves. I seek to make singing a more accessible, enjoyable, and connective experience for all.
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...that while grief is our bodies deeply intelligent, natural, and necessary response to loss, we live in a grief-phobic society that has left most us without the appropriate tools and support to be with our grieving. I seek to create spaces of safety and bravery where all are invited to notice, feel, embody, and express their grief and all the emotions that accompany it.
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...that while all of us have ancestors who found power in collectively singing, dancing, honoring cycles, celebrating harvests, mourning losses, engaging the elements, and invoking spirit, our modern, post-colonial, hyper-individualized society has left many of us strangers to the language of ritual and the power found in joining a collective body. I seek to create ritual spaces where all are supported to be strong in their individual agency as well as invited to surrender to that which is beyond our understanding.
I commit to...
using my gifts in service of healing, liberation, and repair - on the personal, communal, societal, and spiritual levels
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honoring the lineages that have informed and inspired the work I do around communal singing, grief, and ritual - many of which are rooted in black and indigenous cultures (Dagara, Maya, Wampanoag, The Black Church, and more). Holding the complexity of both benefitting from these lineages and reckoning with the role my ancestors played in repressing them. Reaching not just for spiritual teachings and practices from far outside of my ancestral lines, but also seeking wisdom from European wisdom traditions & practices
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consciously navigating the complexities of offering “healing” work during late-stage capitalism, and balancing the need to financially sustain myself with a desire to be of service to those with limited financial access, especially those who have been impacted most by colonialism & racial capitalism
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cultivating deeper relationship with the land I call home, flowing with it's seasonal cycles, and listening for its' teachings and wisdom
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continually seeking training and mentorship from wise teachers who can help me learn, evolve my practice, and identify blind spots
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continually investing in my own healing and systems of care that support it, such that I do not overextend myself in my care for others​​​​​