world
making
What worlds feel necessary for you to seed alongside others who are willing to imagine otherwise?
For the last ten years, my work has been dedicated to stewarding collectives and networks, guiding community-led processes, weaving worlds, and trying to make the way easy with other designers, writers, and folks who are longing to build more liberated and caring communities.
I’ve created foundational support for these creative communities to exist—often within digital landscapes that transcend time and space.
Through the practice of engaging in communal and cultural work, rehearsing revolutionary dreams and desires, and shaping communities of care that will also care for us, I'm demanding that our systems of design reorient themselves toward everyday, creative acts of getting free—bringing us closer to each other and therefore closer to a more caring world.
“May my body and practice be a conduit for the tender power of care to come through.”
This is the spell that continues shaping my life’s work. It’s a statement that sustains my devotion to dreaming and designing more caring, liberating futures alongside communities harmed by injustice. As a designer with many dimensions, it's a commitment to holding an unwavering trust that the futures we long for and love can be nurtured into existence.
FEATURED EXPERIMENT
COLLECTIVE AGREEMENTS
WEAVER + CO-AUTHOR
center for liberatory
practice & poetry /
values and practices
Values & Practices is a collectively sourced and living set of agreements. It invites those of us who gather through the Center to ground ourselves in our visions for autonomous and liberated communities.
The agreements are meant to be drafted and redrafted every year of the Center’s life, with contributions and insights from folks who are part of the Center’s community. We invite others to begin naming and practicing liberatory ways of being and working.
PRACTICES
VALUES
LIBERATION
seeded worlds
caring spaces and liberated communities that have been collaboratively designed throughout the years.
VIRTUAL CARE ECOSYSTEM
CARE POD LEAD
design justice network
care pod
The DJN Care Pod was a soft, regenerative space experimenting with how the lineages of care and healing justice might shape the way we design more just, community-led worlds.
Through virtual gatherings and online/offline togetherness, we cultivated practices, designed rituals, and built relationships of support and solidarity with those committed to liberation work outside of non-profit and institutional spaces.
DESIGN FOR WELLBEING COLLECTIVE
FOUNDING STEWARD
black womxn
flourish
Black Womxn Flourish is a design for wellbeing collective shaping the future of Black womxn’s health and healing through creative, community-led practices.
With co-design and visionary gathering spaces, we nurture the communal dreaming and self-determination that’s necessary for us to redefine wellbeing in our everyday lives.
talks and panels on imagination,
care and wellness
Panelist on “In Imagination We Trust” with Black Policy Lab
Guest Speaker sharing “Design as a Process of Care” with Design Justice Network
Panelist on “The Sanctity of Black Bodies: Creating Spaces for Wellness & Joy” at Harvard’s 2019 Black in Design
One of the most insidious parts of white supremacy is how it colonizes the imagination.
You created a maroon space for a few hours, a place to reclaim our right to joy, peace, abundance. Our time together was an example of how we can create maroon moments in the hopes that they will spiral from mere moments to lasting liberation and collective ascension.
— Growhouse NYC, on experiencing the Dreaming Flourishing Futures session by Black Womxn Flourish