After spending my mid-twenties caring for both of my parents through their declines and deaths, my world went topsy turvy as I sought to make sense of immense loss at a young age. Death has a way of rotating the kaleidoscope to reveal a new configuration of life here on earth; as the fragments found a new arrangement, I found a path forward in end-of-life support and education.

I advocate for early and authentic conversations about death as an act of love and responsibility. Through end-of-life planning, education, and care services, I am devoted to helping people meet this threshold with greater intention, understanding, and community.

As a Conway Scholar at Villanova’s Fitzpatrick College of Nursing, I am deepening my ability to integrate clinical skill with holistic, person-centered care at the end-of-life for both the dying and those they leave behind.

My creative practice is inseparable from this work. Leveraging visual art as a grief processing tool, I enshrine legacy through mediums of ink and paint for myself and others. Art as archive is a key element to my deathwork practice, a means for honoring what has been while tending to what remains.