I am a transformational leader, non-profit founder, and Executive Director of The Neuro: Community, Artist Residency & Mentorship. I am deeply committed to integrating art and nature as pathways to support neuroplasticity and foster community among neurodisrupted individuals. Through storytelling, research, and creative expression, I aim to foster awareness and develop educational programs that explore nervous system attunement and the transformative power of human and ecological connection. My journey was profoundly reshaped by a traumatic brain injury (TBI). My art practice developed as my brain rewired and healed. This experience redirected my life’s work toward supporting others at the intersection of NeuroArts and EcoPsychology. With a unique blend of strategic leadership and creative vision, I have consistently led new business initiatives and driven transformational change across every organization I’ve served. Following my TBI, my professional expertise merged with an intense personal healing journey, deepening my capacity to guide individuals navigating major life changes and personal challenges. Drawing on my PhD studies and M.A. in East–West Psychology, certifications in somatic coaching, Spiritual Herbalism, and hypnosis, I support those seeking growth and healing during pivotal transitions in my personal practice. I am the founder of Soul Topophilia, a bespoke, custom herbal apothecary, where I develop custom herbal blends and products.

Founder and Executive Director, The Neuro: Community, Artist Residency & Mentorship, UT and Remote

Mentor/Advisor, Startup Genome, Global/Remote

Founder, Soul Topophilia, lives within me, and wherever I am in the world

Head of Merchandising & Product Strategy/DTC and Licensees, Kenneth Cole Productions, New York, NY

Head of Women’s Portfolio, Iconix Brand Group, New York, NY

Founder, Coach, and Executive Consultant, Oh,K., Brooklyn, NY, and UT

2014 Traumatic Brain Injury

Managing Director, Guggenheim Partners, New York, NY

Vice President, Walmart Stores, Inc., New York, NY, and Bentonville, AR

Merchandising Director, Old Navy, San Francisco, CA

Buyer, Macy’s, New York, NY

Operating Strategy

BCBG for Guggenheim Partners

Walmart brand launches I led and ran:

Ocean Pacific - brand launch at Walmart (scaled to almost $1B in two years)

Miley Cyrus and Max Azria - brand launch at Walmart; includes exclusive launch of “Party in the USA” and Wonder World Tour sponsorship

Norma Kamali for Walmart

Sandra Magsamen for Walmart

Businesses I ran:

Juniors and Young Men’s - Brand Management - Design and Merchandising

Women’s Intimate Apparel

Girls Apparel

Global Procurement

Old Navy Baby Boys

Women’s Apparel Buyer at Macy’s

Licensing:

Mudd (denim), Candies, Op, Candies, Joe Boxer, Material Girl, Rampage, Bongo

Consulting Projects:

Kenneth Cole, Iconix Brand Groups

Currently a PhD student at the California Institute of Integral Studies with a concentration in East-West Psychology and an Ecopsychology and Resilience Leadership Certificate

MA in East-West Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies

MBA - Columbia University

MBA - University of California, Berkeley

BS - Davis and Elkins College

ACC Accredited ICF Coach, ACT/Brown University

Hakomi Somatic Coaching Certification (ICF Accreditation), Embodywise

Hypnotherapy Certification, Boulder Hypnotherapy Institute

Neuroscience for Business, MIT Management Executive Education

Healing Trauma: Interpersonal Neurobiology Clinical Strategies; Mindsight Institute, GlobalRemote (in progress)

Integration Coaching, The Plant Spirit School, Global/Remote

Spiritual Herbalist, Sacred Vibes Apothecary, Brooklyn, NY

Microdose Practitioner, Mycology Psychology, Remote

Herbal Astrology with Adriana Ayales, Anima Mundi, Global/Remote

2013-2017 Tectonic Theater Project, New York, NY

NOAH - National Organization of Arts and Health

UNA - Utah Non-Profit Association

SFNC - Society for the Neuroscience of Creativity

I am a Brooklyn-based artist. My art practice developed slowly after a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and Post Concussion Syndrome in 2014. As my brain healed, I inexplicably started to pick up rusted metal on my walks because I thought they were “pretty”. Part of my “picking-up” feels like a rescue and an offering of “care” in contrast to the blatant disregard of the item landing in the location I find it. Often items are run-over, mangled and in that destruction, I am drawn to color, line, shape and wear.

I understand that dormant characteristics/traits can get reconnected during the brain healing/re-wiring process. This is the only explanation for what has become my practice today. The “creative” parts of my brain that existed in my youth are now in their full-form and re-developed. It has been equal parts bizarre and natural.

What’s clear now is: I respond to my immediate environment. I gather all my items on my bike rides and walks. I call my bike “the hauler”.  In the panniers are:  wire cutters, a hand saw and bungee cords.  Arranging my treasures on the bike is a puzzle unto itself.  I have carried concrete blocks with random paint, wood that sits 3 feet off the end of my bike, two wood framed windows with chipped turquoise paint, and anything else you can imagine.  Often the items are indiscernible, but striking in their individual composition.  I typically “sit” with the items in my living space, sometimes for months before I take them to the garage where I work.  My process ebbs and flows with the seasons, not unlike my childhood on a farm.  I gather year round, but create mostly in Spring & Summer, with perhaps a small burst in Fall.

My work started outside in public spaces in 2018. For well over a year and a half, I tended to, and maintained a photo-documentation of a land art piece on the beach of Fort Tilden. My work evolved in 2019 when I wanted to use the rusted metals I had gathered since the beginning of my brain injury.  When I pursued welding instruction my work shifted to 3D.

My ideas are rooted in challenging the archetype of commercial beauty harnessing the conflict of philosophical anthropology, specifically the human nature relating to our impact on climate change.  My practices, concepts and work honor the earth, compelled to believe that each piece is a form of remembrance, a memorial of sorts, asking the viewer to meditate on their (dis)regard for the environment as a call to action.  Most certainly, all of my work is a reconciliation of my career in the fashion and apparel industry. It was an outlet for storytelling through color, print, pattern, texture and graphic design.

Group Exhibitions

2026 Moab Arts, Canyonlands Regional Airport. Moab, UT

2025 Art on Main. Dew Drop Gallery, Richfield, UT

2023 Recycle. Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition. Brooklyn, NY

2022 Field Notes: Flushing Creek Walk. In partnership with Sto Len. Year Of Uncertainty: Guardians of Flushing Bay Installation. Queens Museum.

2021 Recycle. Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition. Brooklyn, NY

2021 One in a Year. The Painting Center, New York, NY

2020 Deep Blue See. Ground Floor Gallery. Brooklyn, NY.

2019 Beach Elements V. Rockaway Artist Alliance. Rockaway Point, NY

2019 Priority Mail. Ground Floor Gallery. Brooklyn, NY

2019 Color. Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition. Brooklyn, NY

2019 Dare Small. The Cluster Gallery. Brooklyn, NY

Residency

2022 Artist in Residence, Wassaic Project; Wassaic, NY

Site Specific / Self-Managed Installations

2019-2021 Unsanctioned Meadows. Multiple locations in Brooklyn & Queens, NY

2018-2020 Fort Tilden Beach Art. Gateway National Recreation Area, Breezy Point, NY

Publication/Contributing Artist

2016 YO-NEW YORK, No. 3 - Fall 2016; Contributing Artist/Photographer

Photo Project/Social Performance Art

2015 “Places to Kiss You”: Documenting the locations of where people kiss and want to kiss

Author

2016 “11 Things Your Career Can Teach You About Your Love Life”; First published April 2015 on mindbodygreen.com; illustrated by Jason Logan