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I am a person off-color — a mixed race, Native Hawaiian mother of two, toiling in the post-industrial soils of Troy, New York. My self-exploration is materialized through wordplay, gardens, and assembly of my nest. Built from strands of racial, eco, food, and birth justice, I find shelter in the creative opportunity of this entanglement.

Awards & Fellowships

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Events

Ongoing_

2014 - Present

Collard City Growers Workshop Series

Designed by the seasons: Plant propagation, Grafting, Community Tree Planting, Food Preservation and more. See instagram.com/collardcitygrowers

Last Wednesday of Every Month, 5 to 7pm

Mom's Night Out

A monthly gathering for mothers centered around creative activity held at Superior Merchandise Company.

Past_

03/30/2019 ~ Grafters X Change

Community Resource Mapping

04/15/2018 ~ Ruderal Ecologies Symposium

Census Tract 404: Collaborative Mapping

05/06/2019 ~ Bees + Barter

Bees and the Cooperative Community

Education

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Education

Class of 2008

Bachelor of Arts in English (Creative Writing)

Class of 2004

Kahuku High School 

2014

Geoff Lawton Online Course

Permaculture Design Certificate

Teaching

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Earthwork

2015 to Present

Other-Wise Homestead

Lansingburgh, Troy, NY

Rehabilitation and remediation of home and landscape with an homage to other-ness: other values, other styles, other wisdom — the non-conventional. Community composting site, edible landscape, alley plantings and backyard chicken experiments.

2014 to Present

Collard City Growers

North Central, Troy, NY

A block-wide public food forest and demonstration garden of the Sanctuary for Independent Media, dedicated to environmental arts education for the community. Where food justice meets bio art through reclamation of post-industrial landscapes and sharing food and skills with our neighbors. 

2014

Contemporary Artists' Center

Troy, NY

Design and installation of edible landscape at The Post set on partially-wooded, south-facing sloped terrain to feed and teach artists-in-residence self-reliance and earth-based skills. 

Publication

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Creations

words, photos, performance, installation

2019

"Sensory Baptism"

Bring No More Worthless Offerings

Troy, NY, August 2019 [words, performance + installation]

"Plantation Shovel" 

Tropic Zine

Published: June 2019 [words + photos]

"Ruderal Reunion" + "Here You There"

Greenhorn's New Farmer's Almanac, Vol. IV

Published: February 2019 [words]

2018

36 Weeks, photos by Michael Valiquette

Troy, NY, November 2018 [photos]

Upcoming

"Same Same" + "Hard Copy"

Depot Magazine, Issue 2: Reproduction

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