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Education

2017-2021, BFA, The School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University

Spring 2022, Certificate, BEST Youth Worker Training at Health Resources in Action 

January 2024, Graphic Memoir Intensive at the Center for Cartoon Studies

Teaching and Facilitation Experience

2022-present

Workshop Facilitator, Boston Public Library, the Cambridge Foundry, the Boston Figurative Art Center, the KiOSK, and BAGLY

Oct 2024-present

Wall Talk Lead Teaching Artist, Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) Wall Talk - Boston, MA

July - Aug 2024 and July 2025-present

Teaching Artist, ICA Teen Programs (Teen Digital Collective and Teen Exhibitions Program)  - Boston, MA

2023-present

Design and Facilitation Team Member, Teaching Democracy at Tufts University - Boston, MA

Jan-Dec 2025

Teaching Artist, Comics Club at Mosesian Center for the Arts - Watertown, MA

June - Aug 2025

Lead Facilitator, Summer Leadership Academy at The City School - Boston, MA

Mar-June 2024

Teaching Artist, Resident Leadership Academy, and A-VOYCE Food Justice Comics at Asian CDC - Boston and Malden MA

Feb 2022 - Feb 2024

Teen Program Coordinator, Media Makers at Castle Square Tenants Organization - Boston, MA

Sept 2021-Feb 2022

Youth Program Coordinator, Allston Brighton Community Development Corporation - Brighton, MA

 

June-Aug 2019

Animation Instructor, Charles River Creative Arts Program - Dover, MA

 

Artist Residencies

Spring 2025

Chapters of Choice, Urbano Youth Art Project - Brighton, MA

Spring 2023

STARS Residency, Excel Charter High School - Boston, MA

 

Summer 2020

Residence Lab, Pao Arts Center - Boston, MA


 

Awards, Grants, and Fellowships

2026

Local Cultural Council Grant, Cambridge Arts Council - Cambridge, MA 

 

2024-2026

Ella Baker Fellowship, The City School - Boston, MA

2024

Collective Futures Fund - MA

2023

Massachusetts Cultural Council Pandemic Recovery Grant - MA

2022

California Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship - CA

 

2021 

Tufts Presidential Award for Civic Life - Medford, MA

 

2020

Tufts Summer Scholar (advised by Ethan Murrow) - Medford, MA

City of Boston Transformative Public Art: Later Grant - Boston, MA

SMFA Dean’s Research Award - Boston, MA


 

Selected Exhibitions and Screenings

2026

Multiple Formats Art Book Fair - Boston, MA

2025

Watertown Zine Fest - Watertown, MA

Somerville Zine Fest - Somerville, MA

2024

Half-Life, Unbound Visual Arts - Boston, MA

Kaleidoscope: Queer Visions, Boston Figurative Art Center - Somerville, MA

Community Engagement for Torii: Lot Lab 2024, Now + There - Boston, MA

 

2023

At Home in Chinatown: a Residence Lab Retrospective, Pao Arts Center - Boston, MA

Call and Response: Illustration in Uncertain Times, Pao Arts Center - Boston, MA

 

2022

Experience Chinatown Festival - Boston, MA

 

2021

New Narratives: Embodied Identities, Pao Arts Center - Boston, MA

inPUBLIC, The Design Studio for Social Intervention - Boston, MA

UC Davis noontime concert series - Davis, CA

 

2020

San Francisco Zine Fest - San Francisco, CA

 

2019

Bookworks, Tufts University Art Galleries - Somerville, MA

Verklarte Nacht animation, UC Berkeley, Hertz Hall - Berkeley, CA

Painting and Drawing Annual, 1st prize Painting Award, SMFA - Boston, MA

 

2018

Mapping Worlds, Spaceus - Boston, MA

 

2017

Art / Act: Youth, David Brower Center - Berkeley, CA

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