“You help folks get to know other folks.”
This passing comment stuck with me and has grown in my mind to be a succinct and accurate description of my career.
A deep goal of my work is to forge connections between people and cultures. I regularly engage in documentary projects that benefit from my training as a folklorist and my communications skills.
The Art & Alchemy of Repair
Repair Professionals in North Carolina
(2021 Archie Green Fellowship)
Collaboration with Julia Gartrell & the Radical Repair Workshop
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Making Laos: Home in a New Place
“Home in a New Place: Making Laos in Morganton, North Carolina,” explores, through the world of one family, how Lao-Americans have crafted their home in a small southern community. By chronicling the experience of the Phapphayboun family in Morganton, this project tells a larger story about emergent global landscapes across the South.
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Audio Bites
A summer youth program with Transplanting Traditions Community Farm finishing in an audio documentary listening event.
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What’s Your NC Story?
A micro oral history project at the National Folk Festival in Greensboro, NC, in 2016 for deposit into the Southern Oral History Program at UNC Chapel Hill. Part of “Fabric of Freedom.”
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Embodied Text
How do you present a personal, even a painful, interview? A collaboration with artist Susan Harbage Page.
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