I'm an artist, movement enthusiast, and technologist based in Kansas City.

I was born on 8.8.88 in West Plains, Missouri, USA. I moved to Kansas City after high school to attend the Kansas City Art Institute where I earned a BFA in painting. I spent a semester in Germany at the Fachhochschule Schwäbish Hall studying design and digital media. After graduating, I returned to Europe for a while and worked on farms and gardens in Belgium and Ireland where I learned from permaculture methods, and lower impact lifestyles.

After that, I returned to the US, and spent some time living on the East coast in New York and Massachusetts. I lived and worked at the Kripalu School of Yoga and Ayurveda, where I later became a certified yoga teacher. Following that experience, I spent three months in India, during which I completed my first (and likely my last) Vipassana.

I moved back to Kansas City in 2015. Upon returning I focused on building a career out of teaching yoga and making art. I was a two-time resident artist with the Charlotte Street Foundation. I received grants, commissions, and awards from Art in the Loop, Winthrop Rockefeller Institute, and the Crossroads Hotel to create large scale public art works. In tandem with making visual art, I combined my interests in making and moving when I created and organized local community events, called "Temenos", which involved groups of people wearing elaborate masks I made out of fabric participating in what I termed experimental movement workshops.

In 2019 I enrolled in a web development coding bootcamp. This was a transformative experience that allowed me to take my interest in creating things for people in a new direction. In summer 2020, I started as a web development intern with Bounteous, and have been working as a full time developer ever since.

These days, when I'm not working on apps, I'm making art, dancing around, doing yoga, making kombucha, tending indoor and outdoor gardens, looking for laughs, going on long walks, and starting books that I occasionally finish.