I am an interdisciplinary scholar with a research and teaching background in Environmental Oral History, Climate Change Communications, Protected Area and Community Relationships, and Environmental Art. I have a Doctorate in Music and Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies from McGill University (2019), a MS in Interdisciplinary Ecology from the University of Florida (2007), a master's in music performance from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (2002), and a BS in Natural Resource Studies from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (1999). I did research as a Fulbright Scholar in Brazil in 2024 where I studied the relationships between traditional communities and the conservation of the Mata Atlântica (Atlantic Rainforest) of southeast Brazil. I also created a video and music montage featuring several of the recorded interviews from the project. In 2022 I was a visiting professor at East Tennessee State University, where I taught a course on Environmental Oral History and presented my work with climate storytelling and music.

I am the director of Climate Stories Project, an educational and artistic forum for sharing personal stories about climate change. I lead climate storytelling workshops where participants learn to craft and share their climate stories and to record interviews about other people’s responses to the changing climate. I also write and perform original music that features recorded climate stories, with the goal of engaging audiences through the power of storytelling and art.