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Previous Projects

Music & Youth Development Program

A project funded by the Tacoma Public Schools to implement re-engagement programs for at-risk youth. Specifically, my program taught songwriting with an approach of using music to help self-reflect, connect to others, and tell our stories. I taught students ages 9-20 at Sheridan Elementary, Mason Middle School, and Willie Stewart Academy. My students struggled with a wide range of adversities from foster care to poverty, homelessness to gang violence, juvenile detention to mental illness and disability. What a rich experience it was to be welcomed into their communities and connect with such a vast range of ages and lived experience. Each student was my teacher just as much as I was theirs and pushed me to meet them in the challenges they faced.

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Centrum Foundation

I facilitated songwriting groups for Strong Voices-- a youth arts program designed for current WA state foster youth--as well as the Tales, Text, and Theatre program.

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Medicine Retreats (USA)

An ongoing project, playing music for plant medicine retreats throughout Washington and Oregon.

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Medicine Retreats (Mexico)

Music for plant medicine retreats throughout central Mexico.

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Medicine Retreats (Brazil)

Sang for plant medicine retreats at Ceu de Unalome in Florianopolis, Brazil.

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Port Townsend Psychedelic Society

Co-founder for the Port Townsend Psychedelic Society--a community based initiative to decriminalize plant medicine at a local city and county level. We successfully decriminalized at the city level in 2021. Subsequently, Jefferson County became the first county in the country to decriminalize entheogens in 2023. Today, the community continues with several committees including Harm Reduction, Veteran's Care, End of Life Care, and many others.

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Youth Homelessness Demonstration Project

Case managed and coordinated housing and other resources for houseless youth.

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Trauma-Informed Care Case Studies (New Delhi, India)

Worked in intimately with a caseload of girls within three orphanages in New Delhi. Conducted case studies on trauma-informed care, which included alternative interventions and workshops with music and art.

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Reclamation: Songwriting for Adults

A 5-6 week songwriting series for adults held both in person and virtually.

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