Keynotes

Kaywin Feldman | National Gallery of Art

Kaywin Feldman is the director of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. She was appointed in 2019, the first woman to lead the nation’s art museum. As director, Feldman is committed to connecting people to art in a globalized world through the power of wonder and accessibility. Before joining the National Gallery, she served as the Nivin and Duncan MacMillan Director and President at the Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia) from 2008 to 2019 and led the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art from 1999 to 2007. Feldman is a member of the board of directors of the Terra Foundation for American Art and a trustee of the National Trust for Historic Preservation and the White House Historical Association. She is a past president of the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD) and past chair of the American Alliance of Museums (AAM). Feldman received an MA in Art History from the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, an MA in Museum Studies from the Institute of Archaeology at the University of London, and a BA, summa cum laude, in Classical Archaeology from the University of Michigan. She lectures and publishes widely on museums in the twenty-first century.

Shinique Smith | Artist

Shinique Smith is known for her monumental fabric sculptures and abstract paintings of calligraphy and collage. Born to a young fashion designer who is also a visionary thinker, Smith was exposed to an array of inspirational, childhood experiences, that include chanting with his holiness the Dalai Lama, attending the fashion shows in New York and Paris and studying ballet, piano and visual art from the age of four years. Smith attended the famed Baltimore School for the Arts, where she began honing her hand through life drawing and tagging with a local graffiti crew. Smith’s personal histories and belongings intertwine with thoughts of the vast nature of ‘things’ that we consume, cherish, gift, and discard and how these objects resonate on intimate and social scales. Over the last twenty years, Smith has gleaned visual poetry from clothing and explored concepts of ritual using breath, bunding and calligraphy as tools toward abstraction. Her layered works range from palm-sized bundled microcosms to monolithic bales to massive chaotic paintings that contain vibrant and carefully collected mementos from her life. Smith’s practice operates at the convergence of consumption and spiritual sanctuary, balancing forces and revealing connections across space and time, race, gender, and place to suggest the possibility of new worlds.

Erin Clabough, Ph.D | University of Virginia

Erin Clabough, PhD, is a neuroscientist and certified Reiki master teacher. Trained as a molecular biologist with a postdoc in biomedical engineering, she currently teaches courses at the University of Virginia on the neural basis of behavior, as well as the nature of consciousness and empathy, using experiential learning as the primary mode of teaching. She is the author of Second Nature: How Parents Can Use Neuroscience to Help Kids Develop Empathy, Creativity, and Self-Control, published by Sounds True. Her research explores neurodevelopment, synaptic plasticity, and ways to enhance well-being through nature, yoga, mindfulness, and meditative practices.

Presenters

Christina Alderman

Ronald Bernier, Ph.D.

Ronald Bernier is Professor of Humanities at Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston, MA. His books include “Religion and Contemporary Art: A Curious Accord” (2023); “The Unspeakable Art of Bill Viola” (2014); “Beyond Belief” (2010); “Monument, Moment, and Memory: Monet’s Cathedral in Fin-de-Siecle France” (2007). His research interests are modern and contemporary art and religious studies.

David Berry, Ph.D.

David Berry did his doctoral research at the University of Oxford with a focus on the history of museums, gardens, and libraries. David spent ten years at The Ringling in Sarasota, serving ultimately in the role of Associate Director, before joining Selby Gardens in 2021 as Vice President for Visitor Engagement and Chief Museum Curator. David teaches courses on the history of museums and the art of natural history at New College of Florida.

Jay Boda, Ph.D.

Jay Boda is the Associate Director of Academics, Innovation, and Research at the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art and a member of faculty for Florida State University. He leads The Ringling’s Program Team departments, directs higher education activities, manages publications, and conducts audience research. Jay teaches graduate courses for FSU’s Museums and Cultural Heritage Studies (MCHS) program and collaborates with other FSU programs like Museum Education and Visitor-centered Curation (EC). Jay’s research areas include audience research, performance-based pedagogies, and transmedia storytelling. Before his museum career, Jay honorably retired from the U.S. Air Force (1989-2010).

Alyssa Braud

Alyssa Braud is modern and contemporary choreographer and dancer from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She has dedicated her life to two careers, teaching students with Visual Impairments, and freelance dancing. She has danced with companies like Of Moving Colors in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Tennessee Ballet Theatre in Memphis, Tennessee to bring people’s life stories to the stage and community. In 2019 she had the pleasure of performing with Staib Dance in Sant’Agata, Italy. Her choreography is based on the breath and flow of energies and portrays life stories and the journey one goes through. In 2023, she created Saoirse Movement, meaning Freedom Movement, to find the freedom, beauty, and breath with everyday movement through dance.

Emily Brown

Emily Brown is currently the Conservator of Sculpture and Decorative Arts at The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Florida. In this role Emily established the specialty area of objects conservation within the conservation laboratory, and oversees the preservation, conservation, restoration, and safe transport and display of three-dimensional objects and textiles, as well as consults with Collections and Curatorial staff regarding preventive conservation issues. She has supervised pre-program and graduate interns, and post-graduate Conservation Fellows. Prior to her hire at The Ringling she completed a Mellon Fellowship in Decorative Arts and Sculpture at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, a contract position at The Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, and graduate internships at Shelburne Museum, The Fitzwilliam Museum, The Walters Art Museum, and Winterthur Museum. She is a graduate of the Winterthur-University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation and is a recurring guest lecturer for the Program, teaching First-Year students about the history of glass manufacture.

Emily Carr, Ph.D.

Dr. Emily Carr is a joyous revolutionary arts educator, holistic fitness coach, and author of four collections of poetry. Her McSweeney’s collection, whosoever has let a minotaur enter them, or a sonnet – , inspired a beer of the same name, now available at the Ale Apothecary in Bend, Oregon. Emily was the founding director of the MFA in Creative Writing at Oregon State University – Cascades and creator of the B.A. in Creative Writing at New College of Florida. These days she’s the host of Soul SAUCE + FLOSS, innovative workout rituals choreographed to jolt participants into physical feats and imaginative leaps they didn’t know they had inside them.

Susan L. Cox

Susan L. Cox is a Ph.D. Candidate in Hispanic Linguistics at Florida State University, with a focus on Phonetics, Phonology, and Second Language Acquisition. Her research delves into the intricate acoustic analyses of Spanish intonation, exploring its nuanced interaction with various voice qualities such as creaky voice and breathy voice. Additionally, she is passionate about The Art of Constructed Languages and Computational Linguistics, further broadening her academic interests.

Connie Cuadrado

Connie Cuadrado is a museum professional, teaching artist, and public innovator with extensive work experience and knowledge in contemporary art, arts integration, visual literacy, and community outreach. She has a BA in Fine Arts form the National University of Colombia and a master’s degree in museum studies from Universidad Complutense de Madrid. She has worked with the Education and outreach programs at Bogota’s Museum of Modern Art, Thyssen Bornemisza Museum, in Madrid, Harvard Art Museums, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Currently working as Community Catalyst at the Sarasota Art Museum, she has developed content for educators and students of all ages to engage with contemporary art; she has created a series of outreach and inclusion programs to serve all audiences while and strengthening connections with the community.

Rachel C. S. Duke, Ph.D.

Rachel Duke is the Rare Books Librarian of Florida State University Libraries’ Special Collections & Archives. She promotes engagement with primary sources with university classes, community groups, and visiting researchers.

Victoria Eudy

Victoria Eudy serves as the Manager of Institutional Evaluation for the Missouri Historical Society (MHS). At MHS, Victoria designs and ensures program and exhibition evaluation across the organization and conducts organizational research. Prior to joining MHS, Victoria taught for the Museum Studies graduate program at Western Illinois University (2017-2021). Victoria completed her PhD in Museum Studies and Visitor Centered Exhibitions at Florida State University in 2019 with a focus on the development of digital strategies in the art museum. Her research interests include systems thinking and place attachment in the museum setting.

Carolina González, Ph.D.

Dr. Carolina González is Professor of Spanish and Linguistics at the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics at Florida State University, where she is also an Honors Teaching Scholar and Affiliate faculty at the Native American and Indigenous Studies Center. Dr. González research focus is the sounds, linguistic rhythm, and intonation of the world’s languages. She also interested in the exploration of language invention (“conlanging”) linguistically and as an art form. Dr. González teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on how to create languages, and has a book forthcoming on this topic with Cambridge University Press. She is originally from the Basque Country in Spain.

Natalia Guerrero

Natalia Guerrero is a third-year PhD student in Astronomy (Schraeder Fellowship) and a first-year MFA student in Studio Art: Art + Technology (Grinter Fellowship) at the University of Florida. Her astronomy research is on the orbits and rotation of extrasolar planets and the impact of a day-night cycle on a planet’s capacity to sustain life. Her artistic practice is in text-based performance, centered around comprehension of her work and lived experience as an astronomer. Her work as an artist-astronomer asserts that the creative scientific process as intuitive, embodied, and fundamental to her identity. Previously, Guerrero managed the process for identifying and cataloguing extrasolar planet candidates for NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission at the Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, MA.

John Gulledge, Ph.D.

John Gulledge is an Assistant Professor of English at Wittenberg University, where he teaches courses on early modern literature and disability studies. His current book project recovers the rhetorical and poetic method of energia in early English drama to reveal how creative invention was often patterned after encounters with disability. His most recent work can be found in the journals Inscription and Synapsis, and forthcoming in Perspectives in Biology and Medicine as well as the edited volume Disability, the Environment, and Colonialism.

Taylor Henning

Taylor Henning is the University Archivist at Florida State University Libraries’ Special Collections & Archives. She works to make collections accessible and promotes engagement with primary sources in the campus community.

Steven High

Steven High, Executive Director of the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, is senior faculty at Florida State University. He has worked in art museums since 1977 and has held museum positions in cities from San Francisco to Boston. Joining The Ringling in 2011, he has undertaken major strategic planning, launched design, construction, and the opening for the Kotler|Coville Glass Pavilion and the Chao Center for Asian Art, re-branded The Ringling, and opened the Turrell Skyspace, Tibbals Circus Galleries, the Bolger Playspace, and the Monda Gallery of Contemporary Art. He was recently appointed as a Commissioner for the American Alliance of Museums Accreditation Commission. He manages a staff of over 250 with an operating budget over $26 Million. He has an M.A. in Art History from Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts, and an M.B.A. degree from the School of Business, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond. High’s curatorial experience and interests are in modern and contemporary art.

Piper Hutson, Ph.D.

Dr. Piper Hutson is a curator with over sixteen years of experience in galleries across the United States. Her career includes co-curating more than forty exhibitions, as well as serving as the head curator for ten shows over the past decade. Dr. Hutson’s expertise lies in 19th-century British art, art education, and inclusivity in cultural heritage collections for neurodiverse populations and she currently serves as both a Corporate Art Curator for Wells Fargo and an instructor in higher education at Lindenwood University. Her current research is dedicated to improving inclusivity in cultural heritage collections for neurodiverse populations. She has authored several works on inclusivity in the workplace and best practices for supporting neurodiversity in cultural heritage institutions, including Inclusive Smart Museums (2024), with her research underscoring the importance of creating accessible and welcoming spaces for all individuals to engage with cultural heritage collections.

James Hutson, Ph.D.

Dr. James Hutson specializes in multidisciplinary research that encompasses artificial intelligence, neurohumanities, neurodiversity, immersive realities, and the gamification of education. Earning a Bachelor of Arts in Art from the University of Tulsa, a Master of Arts in Art History from Southern Methodist University, and a Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Maryland, College Park, he later acquired additional Master’s degrees in Leadership and Game Design from Lindenwood University and additional PhD in Artificial Intelligence at Capitol Technology University (2023). Over the span of his academic career since 2006, Hutson has held various pedagogical and administrative positions across five universities, including Chair of Art History, Assistant Dean of Graduate and Online Programs, and most recently, Lead XR Disruptor and Department Head of Art History and Visual Culture. Notably, his scholarly portfolio includes several books on the application of artificial intelligence in education and cultural heritage, such as Creative Convergence: The AI Renaissance in Art and Design (2024), as well as numerous articles and case studies.

Gabrielle Isgar

Gabrielle Isgar is a Ph.D. Candidate in Spanish Linguistics at Florida State University, where she also completed her B.S. in Actuarial Science/B.A. in Spanish (2017) and M.A. in Spanish Linguistics (2020). With current interests in phonology, phonetics, and the language documentation & description of Mayan languages, her dissertation presents a comparative phonological analysis and optimality-theoretic account of syllable structure, stress, phonotactics and phonological alternations in two Mayan languages, K’ichee’ and Mam, and Spanish spoken in Guatemala. She is currently involved in a research group with Susan Cox and Dr. González focused on the acoustics of voice quality in native and L2 Spanish. Before switching focus to phonology/phonetics, during her M.A., she dedicated her thesis to the syntax of information structure in Spanish and took her first course on language invention with Dr. Carolina González (Summer 2019) where she first designed her conlang, Shiizuu. Since then, she has continued to develop the conlang’s writing system and worked with Dr. González on preparing her book for publication centered around creating a conlang. Along with Susan Cox, they have used language invention to inspire kids at Pineview Elementary School’s STEM Night to get curious about and creative with language.

Jaimee Jensen

Jaimee Jensen (they/them) is a creative educator based in the central Arkansas area. They hold an M.A. in Ritual Chant and Song, top honours, from the University of Limerick. Currently, they teach on the Equality, Equity and Social Justice through Music course at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. They also co-own Community Creative, LLC which facilitates community music projects, hosts meditation workshops, and provides voice lessons on a pay-as-you-can model.  Currently, Jaimee’s research focuses on the development of safe and brave spaces, with a focus on higher education settings.

Andy Johnson

Andy Johnson (he/him) is a DC-based arts writer/editor, publisher, and art historian. He is currently editor for Dirt. and adjunct faculty in Art History at Georgetown University, teaching courses on queer art, photography, and visual culture. He previously served as Director of Gallery 102 at the Corcoran School, and editor/creative director of Archelon: Journal of Queer Archives, published by the Stonewall National Museum & Archives. He holds a M.A. in Art History and is pursuing a MPS in Publishing from The George Washington University.

Betsy Golden Kellem

Betsy Golden Kellem is a scholar of the unusual. An Emmy-winning historian and media attorney, she has written for The Atlantic, Vanity Fair, Atlas Obscura, The Washington Post, and Slate, and serves on the board of the Barnum Museum and the Circus Historical Society.

Sydney Lemelin

Sydney Lemelin was born in California under a Libra Moon. And because Libras have to have it both ways, she holds both a B.A. in Dance and B.S. in Information Science from the University of Maryland (go terps). In 2021, she helped open The Field Center, an interdisciplinary arts center in Vermont. Then, purely for dramatic effect, Sydney hopped on the auto-train and relocated to southern Florida. She now brings boutique contemporary performance to the idyllic sea-side village of Sarasota as The Ringling’s Performance Producer. She has enjoyed dancing with Moving Ethos, BANDportier, Heart Stück Bernie, PEARSONWIDRIG DANCETHEATER, Britta J. Peterson, Jo Lloyd (Melbourne, AUS) and Orange Grove Dance. She has presented work with Project Alchemy’s Choreographer Showcase, Sarasota Contemporary Dance’s Rising Choreographers Showcase, Dance Place, Baltimore Theater Project, The Clarice Center for Performing Arts, and more.

Lisa B. Lewis

Lisa began her career as a graduate of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Clown College. She has a BA from Brandeis University and earned a Master’s Degree in Clown/Circus History from NYU, co-founded the Super Scientific Circus, and spent many years working with the Big Apple Circus in multiple capacities. She is the founder and executive director of Omnium: A Bold New Circus, whose mission it is to include and welcome the beautiful mosaic of humans who make up our world, creating joy and entertainment for all no matter the body you inhabit and the skin you are in. She is a recognized leader in the area of DEAIB (Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, Inclusion and Belonging) and a passionate advocate for making the magic of the performing arts available to all.

Pamela Elisabeth Lindeback

Pamela is currently an MFA in Interior Design student at Florida State University. Her thesis research focuses on the holistic design of supportive affordable housing communities to reinforce identity and nuture human well-being. Equitable access to untouched nature through community development is essential. She works for the Florida Housing Coalition on the Resilience and Disaster Recovery Task Force. Pamela is currently working on initiatives for rebuilding resilient homes for disaster survivors in the realm of climate change. She is a mother of a 21-year-old and 25-year-old and enjoys yoga and kayaking as ways to connect to herself and nature.

David London

David London is a magician, storyteller, historian, and experience designer, who has spent over 25 years exploring the intersection of wonder, creativity, and play. He has created and presented numerous theatrical magic productions, including Cerebral Sorcery, Art of Dreams, Magic Outside the Box, The Tricksters and Adventure to the Imagi Nation, as well as numerous interactive seances, and immersive wonder-based experiences such as Sensorium and the Winter Festival of Wonders. David has also served as the Director of Operations for the Circus of Wonders, as well as the guest curator for the exhibition Inescapable: The Life and Legacy of Harry Houdini, which toured museums in Baltimore, Atlanta, and Milwaukee. For many years, he served as Chief Experience Officer of Baltimore’s Peale Museum, based in the oldest museum building in America, where he also presented HUMBUG: The Great P.T. Barnum Séance and Traveling Museum as well as the Time Travel Tours, which utilized a working time machine to transport visitors to Rembrandt Peale’s private studio in the Peale Museum in the year 1818. He regularly presents lectures and workshops on wonder, illusion, and the history of the show business across the country.

Katie Nickel

Katie Nickel is the Head of Educational Programs at the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art. She leads a team of museum educators who provide robust programs including school tours, teacher workshops, family programs, museum venue tours, accessibility tours and programs, training for healthcare professionals, and community engagement and outreach. Katie also oversees the museum’s adult education programs including lectures, workshops, and symposia. She holds BA and MA degrees from the University of Florida and is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of South Florida. Katie’s research areas include the intersection of arts and health, innovative program evaluation, and the ways wonder manifests in informal learning environments.

Hunter O’Hanian

Hunter O’Hanian, based in Fort Lauderdale, is an independent consultant working on a variety of queer art projects. Hunter was the Executive Director of the Stonewall National Museum and Archive in Ft. Lauderdale. Previously, he was the head of the College Art Association, the largest professional association supporting art historians and visual artists in the world. Prior to that, he was the founding Director of the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, the only art museum devoted exclusively to artwork that speaks to the LGBTQ experience. Prior to joining Leslie-Lohman, Hunter was the Director of the Foundation for Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston. He has also led two renowned artists’ residencies programs, having served as the President of Anderson Ranch Arts Center outside of Aspen, CO, and Director of the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA, the largest residency program for emerging artists and writers in the United States. Hunter has a long career of non-profit board and community involvement. He is the past board chair of the Alliance of Artists Communities, the national membership organization for artists’ residency programs. Hunter graduated from Boston College and received his law degree from Suffolk University. He is presently working on a book of images and writings by Baltimore artist Amos Badertscher and a touring exhibition of works by Rober Giard called Queer Pioneers.

Jess Pope

Jess is originally from Sacramento, California, and moved to Sarasota, Florida in 1992. She graduated from Ringling College of Art and Design with a Bachelor of Art in Visual Studies with a minor in Photography and Imaging, Business of Art and Design, and Video Communications. She received her MFA in Visual Art from Vermont College of Fine Arts in 2021. As a multi-media artist, their work explores identity and the human body to transform time and language through performance, still and moving images, and drag. They aim to dissolve hierarchies between the artist and the viewer to provide a layer of space where genuine connection can happen. With a focus on the act of Queer Mothering, less as a gendered identity and more of a call to action, she asks the viewer to examine their own beliefs on this topic to self-reflect and connect to a communal story.

Jennifer Lemmer Posey

Jennifer Lemmer Posey, the Tibbals Curator of Circus, has worked with the circus collections at The Ringling for over twenty years. She oversees and interprets the museum’s collection of objects and ephemera related to the history of the circus, including the Howard Bros. Circus Model, the Wisconsin Pullman Car, bandwagons, posters, costumes and more. With research interests focused on the relationship of the circus arts, mass media, and popular culture, Lemmer Posey has published in The American Circus, The Amazing American Circus Poster, and Early Popular Visual Culture. From 2013 to 2017, she served as editor for Bandwagon, the Journal of the Circus Historical Society and was an Advisory Scholar for the Smithsonian Folklife Festival celebrating the Circus Arts in 2017. Lemmer Posey has curated a wide array of exhibitions at The Ringling, including the reinstallation of the Historic Circus Galleries, A Kaleidoscope of Color: The Costume Designs of Miles White, and regular rotations of the poster galleries in the Tibbals Learning Center. 

Kelley G. Robinson

Kelley Robinson is an assistant professor in the Department of Interior Architecture & Design at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida, and a registered interior designer. She is also the founder of Workshop 131, Inc., an award-winning design studio, and past president of the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) Florida North Chapter. Her research revolves around the temporal and spatial evolution of the domestic space, specifically areas related to mapping regional vernacular structures, analyzing their extant features, and COVID-19’s impact on residential environments linked to WFH procedures and design practice. Her areas of teaching include Studio I and CAD I courses for undergraduate and graduate students.

Matthew Solomon, Ph.D.

Matthew Solomon is a professor in the Department of Film, Television, and Media at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Disappearing Tricks: Silent Film, Houdini, and the New Magic of the Twentieth Century, winner of the Kraszna-Krausz award for best moving image book, of a monograph on Chaplin’s The Gold Rush for the BFI Film Classics series, and, most recently, of Méliés Boots: Footwear and Film Manufacturing in the Second Industrial Revolution Paris, published open access. He edited Fantastic Voyages of the Cinematic Imagination: George Méliés’s Trip to the Moon, published with a critical edition DVD, and the late the late Madeleine Malthête- Méliès’ Magnificent Méliès: The Authorized Biography, and co-authored The Biggest Thing in Show Business: Living It Up with Martin & Lewis with Murray Pomerance. He co-edits the “Cinema Cultures in Contact” book series for the University of California Press and the “Out of the Archives” book series for the University of Michigan Press.

Tricia Tondryck

Tricia Tondryck is a Sarasota-based hair stylist, yogi, masseuse, and mother. Need a shot of confidence? An excuse for self-care? Tricia will help you to carve out time for a fresh cut, new color, creative braids, and more. She’s an expert at listening to what clients want and balancing that with what’s most flattering – all with a calm presence and efficiency.

Sue Uhlig

Sue Uhlig is a lecturer at Purdue University where she enjoys teaching online classes in art appreciation. Sue is also a Ph.D. candidate in art education at Penn State University. Her dissertation research explores collecting as social practice using a research-creation approach.

Maggie Vanderford

Maggie Vanderford is the Librarian for Instruction and Engagement at the William L. Clements Library at the University of Michigan. Her position deepens the Library’s engagement with the teaching, research, and community engagement mission of the University. These responsibilities include the oversight of the fellowship program for visiting scholars, the coordination of instruction partnerships with faculty across the university, and the support of Library collaboration with all academic classes, programs, exhibits, and workshops. Prior to joining the Clements staff, Maggie specialized in instruction and outreach programming at the William Andrews Clark Library (University of California, Los Angeles), where she developed innovative classes and digital programs. She has published widely across genres and fields, including bibliographic catalogues, journal articles, e-books, and more on subjects ranging from 18th-century literary history and disability studies to descriptive bibliography and transatlantic medical history. In 2024, she will complete her Ph.D. in English from UCLA.

Kat Vecchio

Kat Vecchio is a New York based writer and documentary filmmaker whose work centers on American popular culture, history, and gender. She is the editor of Bandwagon, the journal of the Circus Historical Society, and has presented on the topic of women in the turn of the century American circus for CHS, the Ringling Museum of Art, and as a class guest speaker at Yale University. Her writing on circus and entertainment history has been published in Bandwagon, as well as online at Narratively, and Atlas Obscura. This Is How I Roll, her feature length documentary film, is an unlikely underdog sports story about the first men’s roller derby teams to take part in the modern revival of the sport. Previously, she was the Chief Creative Officer at Folk Films, a nonfiction media company in New York City, and co-producer of the documentary The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales.