(feel) STORIES
Stories from the Edges
Not every lesson fits inside a case study.
This is a living archive of moments that didn’t fit neatly anywhere else - protests, projects, failures, collisions, and risks taken before they were safe to name.
Some of these stories sit adjacent to my work. Others sit far outside it. Together, they show how conviction, creativity, and consequence actually play out over time.
This isn’t a résumé expansion. It’s the lived context behind the systems - the scars, pivots, and decisions that shaped them.
You don’t need background to begin. Start anywhere. Follow the thread that matters to you.
These stories stand on their own.
If you stay long enough,
the structure reveals itself.
The Moment US Politics Embraced Sustainability
It’s wild to look at my resume and see one clean line: Producer — Democratic and Republican National Conventions (2008).
Three bullet points underneath it. Neat. Contained. Sanitized.
What it doesn’t say is that I was 26 years old, furious, and way out of my league, and that the whole thing started because no one was talking about sustainability.
When I learned oil was finite … and What I did about it
4 months. 20,000 miles.
Powered by recycled vegetable oil.
On a mission to educate about Peak Oil & Climate Change.
Instigating Rage @ the RNC
In 2008, amid the political tension of the Republican National Convention, I co-produced Ripple Effect — a festival of music, sustainability, and resistance. When Rage Against the Machine took the stage unannounced, their bullhorn-led protest electrified thousands before riot police pulled the plug. It was a moment where art, defiance, and democracy collided, and the sound of rebellion carried long after the amps went silent.