I’ve spent decades developing policy tools and funding programs, building pop-up space programs and cultural space education programs.

I’ve launched over a dozen cultural spaces, from tiny galleries to mammoth cultural centers in old warehouses and historic train stations.

I’ve developed reports designing strategic policy proposals and I’ve advised large complex cultural space capital projects.

My practice directly engages with cultural communities to identify a market’s challenges and its opportunities, and collaboratively design strategic solutions that bridge the distance between challenge and opportunity.

Most recently I created Seattle's Cultural Space Agency and served as its executive director for three years. Prior to launching the Space Agency, I served for nearly a decade as the City of Seattle’s Cultural Space Liaison, building a nationally unique body of work around cultural space. I was the first director of the Storefronts Seattle program, the largest pop-up cultural space incubator program in the country. I founded and ran two contemporary arts centers, including Consolidated Works, a 25,000 square-foot multidisciplinary center. I was made an honorary member of the American Institute of Architects, and received an Award of Merit from the American Planning Association. I am the only two-time winner of the Seattle Mayor’s Arts Award.

For decades my practice has centered communities of color, with particular emphasis on working with Black and Indigenous communities and organizations. Cultural spaces in most major markets dramatically underrepresent historically marginalized communities of all types. Working to secure the stability for these communities to thrive in place has been central to my practice.