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I create spaces that connect us with a sense of the numinous: real places, fictional worlds, both enduring and ephemeral. Welcoming high-agency, wisdom-seeking collaborators.
🌞 Home | 💃🏼 Tango | 📚 Writing | 👭 Learning Design | 🍇 Paradise
Portrait by Andrei Andreev
8-10 years: Establish a peer learning university and research lab using social learning models to address collective problems.
2-4 years: Settle in a walkable intergenerational “live-near-friends” neighborhood with common spaces, shared meals, and peer learning programs.
1-3 years:
Past lives: Research-driven brand + product marketer | UX Researcher (ex-Instagram/Meta) | Early childhood educator (Montessori) | Founded an adult learning community for improvisational partnered movement (LA)
🌱 Possibility even over perfection.
💪🏼 Responsibility even over comforting patterns.
🌷 Aliveness, even over convenience.
🧘🏼♀️ Depth, even over excitement.
🐣 Follow the child, but not off a cliff.
| 🌎 Stay pragmatic. To build a new world, we need to respect the one that exists already. | 🔬 Attention transforms. We bring out the genius in each other by the quality of attention we give. | ⛰️ Place is teacher. For better or for worse, wherever we are teaches us. We can make it better. |
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| 🦆 Anything is possible. This is a spirited world and what’s possible is limited only by our imagination and will. | 🫶🏼 Love takes practice. Choosing to love ourselves and our neighbors means committing to ongoing growth, and is worth it. | 👀 As we include, so we discern. All are loved and respected, but not everyone can be in the same room at the same time. |
| ✨ Mysticism is now. Everything is divine and we can tune into it in each moment if we choose to. | 🖼️ Words frame reality. The words we choose matter. They have the power to create new beginnings. | 🫀 Joy is power. The reenchantment of the world starts with a single joyful voice - probably yours. |
Influences
2025-2026: Today my core influences are Christopher Alexander, especially his late work The Nature of Order; Maria Montessori; Paul Selig’s Guides, and Jacob Collier.
Non-professional interests
The I Ching, walking labyrinths, contact improvisation, mystical traditions, how attention works, nonviolent communication, aikido, making things with young children, and Persian language, culture & cuisine.
Weird quirks and fun facts
I have a ironclad daily morning routine. I like working out in virtual reality. I’m an ambivert. Some people think I’m “too much” or have teased me for having a peter pan complex. I find it difficult to engage in social media but I will do it for the sake of the work. I invented a tango card game.
☕ If you feel drawn to anything I’ve shared here and sense that it would be joyous or productive to have a conversation, please set up time on my calendar.
📷 Image Acknowledgment
Some of the photographs on this site include moments from my years leading and co-creating Oxygen Tango (2009–2017), a beloved community where so much creative learning took place. These images are shared in the spirit of honoring that history and the people who made it possible.