Can you tell me your favorite thing about yourself or what people say they admire most about you! (For me, it’s your smile, your willingness to be vulnerable and open (esp through COOL MOMS), your artwork, and Sargent. 

You’re so sweet! Thank you. My favorite compliment to receive is that I’m funny. I think to know me well is to understand my sense of humor. Aside from a good giggle, I really appreciate my ability to disarm and engage people. I’m definitely the person who a stranger will tell a secret or a friend to confide in. It works well in hosting Cool Moms, because the women I interview allow me intimate space to excavate their stories. 

How do you describe your work in this season?

Expansive. I’m leaning into doing less, more intentionally, to reach a larger audience.

I know for your visual art, it is a lot collage-based work, but when did you bring movement and video into the work medium? What kind of feeling does it evoke in a way that still art work might not be able to express?

I started experimenting with video really early in my practice. Video collage initially started off as a fun challenge. How can I bring to life the story of the subjects I feature? It was when I came across archived audio from an interview I commissioned from a writer (I was an editor at the time), that it dawned on me that I can bring together these two worlds, writing and art, to broaden my storytelling. 2D work allows the viewer to come up with their own stories about the art. Video work gives me the ability to weave together a story that feels important to tell from materials that otherwise are unrelated. 

What has movement looked liked for you? What has your relationship to movement and/or sports been like?

My relationship with movement has ebbs and flows. I try to stretch as often as I can remember, and workout whenever time allows. I’m a former athlete, but it's been surprisingly challenging to find the movement my body enjoys and responds to. In my most ideal time, I can spend it in nature, hiking.

How do you sustain community? Especially when life gets busy and things like distance, timing, global pandemic get in the way of building and sustaining it?

For one, I made it my job to sustain community. Cool Moms was in direct response to my need for understanding and support through the massive shift that is motherhood. The community keeps me honest and holds me accountable for showing up for them and myself. Outside of “work” I really love my friends. They are my chosen family, so there’s ease and joy in sustaining our connection even through our own personal shifts.