I’m an educator, storyteller, and editor whose work over the last 10 years has largely focused on facilitating critical consciousness in medical education and developing narrative-based frameworks that drive social change.

As a lecturer in the Graduate Program in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University, I teach courses exploring how the arts, humanities, and storytelling can be leveraged to address key issues impacting the health and safety of our most vulnerable communities. I’m also an editor at the Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine.

My writing and research have been featured in high-impact scholarly journals, including “Abolition Medicine” in The Lancet and “Abolitionist Reimaginings of Health” in the AMA Journal of Ethics. This work has taken me around the world - I am grateful to have delivered talks at Rutgers University, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, The University of California--San Francisco, New York University, The University of Oslo, The University of Leeds, Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris, and Weill Cornell Medicine - Qatar.

Currently, I’m the Storytelling and Media Producer at Interrupting Criminalization, where I lead Beyond Do No Harm’s national storytelling project, which amplifies the stories of health care providers interrupting criminalization in health care.