I ask a lot of questions. Not necessarily to find the answers or the truth, but to embrace humility. There are always more questions to ask. And there are always more ways to ask them, to be open to their insights, to find new ways of understanding.

I have a fascination with place. How and why people live in place, what memories are stored in place, how our bodies move through place, and what our political relations are that create the places we come to know or abhor. I enjoy sitting in place, being in place, feeling place.

I have studied these questions, particularly through the theoretical lens of care ethics, throughout my academic career and have taught students at the undergraduate and graduate levels at the University of Washington and the University of Auckland. I have published in some of my discipline's top journals such as Political Geography; Gender, Place and Culture; Geoforum; Emotion, Space and Society; GeoHumanities; and ACME. I have mentored some of my graduate students to also publish in these and other journals. I have received grants and fellowships from the National University of Singapore, the University of Tampere in Finland, the University of Auckland in New Zealand, The Health Research Council of New Zealand, and Antioch University of Los Angeles. I enjoy being a part of my discipline’s wider questions around knowledge production and stretching our theoretical comfort zones.

With my MFA in Creative Nonfiction, I am challenging myself into new territory. To discover new possibilities for understanding, relationality and disarmament at all scales. My creative writing can be read in Pleiades, The Offing, The Los Angeles Review, and in The Sun Reader’s Write. I am seeking representation for my hybrid collection of essays.