I'm Me

In my spare time, I recorded a version of Us the Duo's song I'm Me customized to my own life.

Skills and Tools: iMovieGarageBandVoiceoverParodyWritingSinging

Year of Dance

In 2024, I set out to sample as many styles of dance as I could. Illness kept me from trying anything outside the window of February through October, but within those eight months I danced 25 styles in depth and sampled another 18 briefly (under an hour each).

1. Hip-Hop
2. Burlesque Jazz
3. Contra
4. English Country
5. Tap
6. Zydeco
7. Fusion
8. Blues
9. Irish Ceili
10. Scottish Ceilidh
11. Salsa
12. Swing: Lindy Hop
13. Swing: Country
14. Clubbing
15. Waltz
16. Ballet
17. Balkan
18. Garba
19. Swing: West Coast
20. Hula
21. Zouk
22. Rapper
23. Bachata
24. Tango
25. Country Line Dance

1. Irish Step
2. Chinese Traditional/Folk (incl. Mongolian, Tibetan, Hmong)
3. Merengue
4. Egyptian Belly Dancing
5. Israeli
6. Greek
7. Turkish
8. Armenian
9. Bretagne
10. Bollywood
11. Appalachian Flatfooting
12. Ragtime Foxtrot
13. French Balfolk
14. Disco
15. Hustle
16. Maypole Dance
17. Dance Dance Revolution
18. Square Dance

1. Contra
2. Tap
3. Bollywood
4. Irish Step
5. Scottish Ceilidh
6. Fusion
7. Waltz
8. Theatre Dance
9. Ballet
10. Chinese Traditional
11. Garba
12. Hula
13. Lyrical
14. Appalachian Flatfooting
15. English Country
16. Egyptian Belly Dancing
17. Swing: Lindy Hop
18. Country Line Dance
19. Maypole
20. Blues
21. Ragtime Foxtrot
22. Bachata
23. Irish Ceili
24. Contemporary
25. Square Dance
26. Jazz
27. Merengue
28. Salsa
29. Burlesque Jazz
30. Rapper
31. Line Dance
32. Pointe
33. Balkan
34. Swing: Country
35. Disco
36. Modern
37. Zydeco
38. Hip-Hop

Skills and Tools: DanceContraSwingBluesFusionTapBalletPartner DanceSocial Dance

A Very Merry Sanctuary

I directed Seesaw's Spring production A Very Merry Sanctuary. Due to the pandemic, the final production was delivered in the form of an interactive website and mail-delivered props to follow along.

See the website version of the show here.

Skills and Tools: DirectingLeadershipCreative ThoughtZoomDevisingWritingAccessibilityDesign Justice

Lunar New Year Cabaret

I contributed a rendition of the song "A Change in Me" from Beauty and the Beast to Cape Cod Theatre Company/Harwich Junior Theatre's Lunar New Year Celebration Virtual Cabaret aiming to celebrate the new year and shed light on the asian community as racism and discrimination increased during the Covid-19 pandemic. The cabaret is viewable here.

Skills and Tools: SingingSelf-Tape

Outside the Lines

I acted as assistant director on Outside the Lines. While the performance was eventually cancelled due to Covid-19, I participated in the devising process which enabled us to finalize a script.

Skills and Tools: Creative ThoughtZoomDevisingEditing

Me & the Moon

I assistant-directed Me & the Moon and stepped in for several performances as an Adventure Guide.

Skills and Tools: Creative ThoughtCommunicationWorking with ChildrenASL

Rockin' Rodeo

I was a cowgirl Adventure Guide in Seesaw's Winter production Rockin' Rodeo.

Skills and Tools: Creative ThoughtPerformingWorking with ChildrenASL

Smoke & Mirrors

I joined Northwestern's magic club, where I acted as Historian and Vice President. I participated in the 2018 and 2019 Spring performances, doing a rope act the first year and a telepathy act the second. Thanks to the club, I can also perform several card tricks.

Skills and Tools: PerformingIllusions

Wanderland

I was The Fawn in Seesaw's production of Wanderland.

Skills and Tools: Creative ThoughtPerformingWorking with ChildrenASL

Snow Day

I was an Adventure Guide/Cast Member in Seesaw's Winter Event Snow Day. I performed as a student on a snow day and puppeteered the Snow Bunny.

Skills and Tools: Creative ThoughtPerformingWorking with ChildrenASLPuppetry

New York Cross Stitch

This cross stitch took me two years to complete, and another two years to actually get framed and hang in my apartment.

Skills and Tools: Cross StitchYarn

Needlefelted Penguin

To kick off 2024 I felted this penguin. His name is Pebbles.

Skills and Tools: NeedlefeltingWool

Needlefelted Poliwag

My first freehand needlefelt endeavor, based on the Pokemon Poliwag. It won First Prize in the Textiles category of the Global Operations and Technology Craft Show at work.

Skills and Tools: NeedlefeltingWool

Cross-Stitch

I cross-stitched this image of Stitch and Angel and had it custom framed.

Skills and Tools: Cross StitchYarn

Needlefelted Fox

In the first few months of 2021, I tried out a new art form, and made this fox from a kit my brother gave me.

Skills and Tools: NeedlefeltingWool

Orca Rug

In the first few months of quarantine, when I went home to Massachusetts, I picked back up latch hooking (and cross stitching!) and this orca rug was the result.

Skills and Tools: Latch HookYarn

Kayla's Directory

I spent several years editing blog posts for Kayla's Directory, a website created to assist special needs families in VT. (The blog itself is no longer live.)

Skills and Tools: Copyediting

Naughton But Movies

In my spare time, I edited Sean Naughton's film blog, Naughton But Movies

Skills and Tools: Copyediting

Writing

In high school, I wrote for the school newspaper. My article Hollywood still has a big diversity problem won the award Best of SNO (Student Newspapers Online). Other articles are available here. I had two poems published before college and also won a Scholastic Art and Writing Award Silver Key. My free verse poem I Am a Spider was published by Festival for Poetry in May 2025.

Skills and Tools: Creative WritingJournalistic WritingCopyeditingPoetry

Learning ASL

I believe strongly in the importance of accessibility, and my time with Seesaw showed me the beauty of American Sign Language, so I took classes to independently learn ASL at the Sign Language Center in NYC. I don't have any particular goals or plans to use this skill, but I hope that one day it will come in handy (haha)!

Skills and Tools: ASL

Carbon Offsetting Travel

Minimizing environmental impact is important to me. Beyond consolidating the majority of my investments into environmentally conscious or favorable companies, a primary way I try to minimize my personal carbon footprint is to purchase carbon offsets for travel. Every year, I track the travel I do via car, bus, train, and plane, calculate my carbon footprint, and purchase a corresponding number of carbon credits from a reputable source. (As of 2026, I purchase verified carbon credits through Gold Standard’s Climate+ Portfolio). I have fully calculated and offset 100% of out-of-state travel footprints for 2022 through 2025.

Skills and Tools: Quantitative Carbon ModelingData LoggingESGVendor Due Diligence

Study Abroad

I spent Fall Quarter 2019 studying abroad in Paris, France. I participated in an intensive French program. I studied sociology at the Sorbonne and ballet and pointe at the Marais School of Dance. I also took the opportunity to travel around Europe.

Skills and Tools: FrenchCultural AmbassadorCritical ThinkingBalletPointePlanning