I'm an educator by training, an artist, maker, and storyteller by instinct, and a systems thinker shaped by a lifetime of working alongside children, educators, and communities.

My work has taken me from classrooms and community spaces to school gardens and farms, wool mills and tailor shops to universities and organizations—teaching, making, designing curriculum, developing educators, and building programs along the way. Across those experiences, I kept returning to the same question: What becomes possible when people have the space, support, and freedom to recognize and use the genius already within?

Genius Sprouts grew from that question. At its heart is the belief that we learn, make, and grow in relationship—with one another and with the communities and systems we shape. Together, we make more room for curiosity, creativity, connection, and the genius already within us.