I love to make things happen! I am the Director of Product at The GIANT Room, an innovation hub for children and families with GIANT dreams, who dare to act on them. I lead and manage GIANT Creative Bootcamps, where kids submit projects and ideas to be mixed and remixed into publications co-designed with generative AI and The GIANT Room team of educators and artists. I write STEAM (STEM + Arts) curriculum and make content for these bootcamps, including the creation of over 550 educational prompt videos about science mysteries, latest discoveries, real-world problems and inventions, animals and nature science, STEM role models, and artists and designers from around the world. (Sometimes, I even get in front of the camera and channel my inner silly.) These videos are meant to spark interest in STEM/STEAM topics and challenge kids to create projects inspired by them. Then, I mix and remix these projects, developing, designing, and writing published storybooks, games, trading cards, lookbooks, postcards, zines, and more.

In 2020, I co-founded Art Beyond the Ink, an arts education organization which supports students and early-career artists through musical storytelling and interdisciplinary collaboration. With co-director Emmalie Tello, we produce and write short films inspired by instrumental music, which have been screened at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music and internationally in Canberra, Australia. Designed for children in grades K-5, Art Beyond the Ink’s workbook, Hearing and Seeing Musical Stories: The Story-Filled Tool for Understanding What You Hear teaches music theory and musical storytelling through short stories, arts activities, games, and movement exercises and has been used by over 300 students across NYC. A second workbook in the series, Our Neighborhood of Musical Genres: The Story-Filled Teaching Tool for Music All Around the World, will come out in 2024.

As a performing musician, I have participated in the Krymov Lab, working with visionary Russian theater artist Dmitry Krymov on the creation of an original theater piece. I have played throughout NYC and internationally, including at Alice Tulley Hall, Carnegie Hall, the AlpenKammerMusik Festival in Austria, and the Gerald W. Lynch Theater. I currently run a private flute studio based in Santiago, Chile.

Prior to Art Beyond the Ink, I was the founder and director of MUSES: Music for Extraordinary Students, a program that taught music to children in foster care and prevention services in the South Bronx. MUSES was presented at the 2019 Collaboratory Centennial Symposium, which showcased exemplary community-engaged projects and celebrated interdisciplinary partnerships. Both MUSES and Art Beyond the Ink were recipients of the Alsop Entrepreneurship Award at The New School.

I hold a Bachelor’s of Music in Flute Performance and a Master’s of Arts in Arts Management and Entrepreneurship from the College of Performing Arts at The New School. With my husband, Basti, and dog, Bjorn, I live in Santiago, Chile, where you can find me badly belting out Broadway tunes, reading novels by Mark Z. Danielewski, learning about political philosophy from Jason Brennan, practicing Spanish, and making, making, making.