I am an urbanista, storyteller, and unapologetic optimist whose work explores the intersections of community-based design, cultural memory, and imaginative futures. Through interdisciplinary practice and story mapping, I create frameworks that help communities reimagine the places they call home, transforming urban environments into spaces of connection, belonging, and collective possibility.

My practice is rooted in magical urbanism and hope core approaches that recognize imagination, culture, and collective care as powerful tools for shaping the built environment. I explore how stories, traditions, landscapes, and everyday acts of care can become catalysts for meaningful transformation, challenging traditional approaches to planning and design by centering lived experiences, ancestral knowledge, and community wisdom.

Through storytelling, participatory design, and creative engagement, I support communities in recognizing their agency as co-creators of their environments. My work focuses on moving beyond traditional models of community input by creating pathways for residents to move from consultation to authorship participating in projects from visioning and storytelling through design, implementation, and long-term stewardship.

I believe cities are living archives shaped by the memories, relationships, and dreams of the people who inhabit them. Whether through gardens, public art, gathering spaces, ethical storytelling, or experimental programming, my work explores how collective imagination can become a design tool for building more equitable, resilient, and culturally rooted futures.