I am a Southern, GNC and Queer, photographer, researcher, and storyteller.

My work centers on the intersections of human-ecological relationships in the context of industrial and rural agricultural development in the South, Midwest, and globally.

I also engage with the Queer identity in the rural Southern United States and the tension held between atmospheres of political and social violence and the desire to form community and place-based identification.

I believe that audio/visual storytelling is optimal for conveying the subjectivities of those experiencing disproportionate harm, toxicity, degraded quality of life, and socio-political ostracization. In the context of these throughlines, my work often takes shape in audio/visual formats in addition to my writing. I believe that sensory knowledge (i.e., visual, auditory, scent, and touch) is important in considering how policy prescriptions, activist movements, and permitting paradigms can become empathetic and responsive to harm and violence.

I am currently based in Minnesota, working as a food sovereignty assistant on an Ojibwe reservation. After this one-year position ends, I look forward to attending a grad school program centered around food sovereignty, development studies, agrarian studies, and rural sociology.