What are some of your core values?

As I grow older, I’ve noticed my focus shift from old coping strategies of achievement and excellence to healing values of connection, collaboration, and care. Now, relationships are at the core of my personal and professional pursuits. Within each project, I aim to learn, connect, grow, and celebrate the relationships that bring beauty and joy to my life and others.

• I care deeply for others. Whether my family, friends, pets, or plants, I crave strong, supportive, genuine relationships with my community.

• Additionally, a great deal of my success in life is thanks to the support of individuals across my various networks. I recognize this interdependence and aim to reciprocate the wealth of opportunity I have received in my life and career.

• I strive to be a strong advocate and ally for the marginalized people in my communities. I have dedicated parts of my education to the research and application of diversity, equity, and inclusion, anti-colonial, and anti-capitalist practices and processes. In an effort to build a healthier and more supportive environment for myself and others, I aim to address the impacts of settler-colonial and capitalistic ideologies that disenfranchise specific individuals from living their potential. I hope that one day my life and work embody whole-hearted wellness, healing, and connection and that these values integrate fully into today’s institutions, politics, and culture.