Selected Current and Past Positions

Integrative Health & Music Researcher and Faculty/Composer, University of Minnesota (current)

Interdisciplinary researcher with Dr. Hubert Lim(neuromodulation/translational science) with a focus on sound/music and integrative health at the University of Minnesota Medical School and artist-faculty with The Bakken Center for Spirituality and Healing at The University of Minnesota.

Relational Leadership Faculty, Minnesota College of Art and Design, Creative Leadership MA Program(current)

Faculty and mentor focusing on community healing and wellbeing facilitation.

Senior Fellow and Faculty, Center for Excellence in Public Leadership, George Washington University (current)

Trauma-Informed Leadership Training, Youth Fellowship Lead (One Humanity Lab), Senior Fellow, Integrative Health and Creativity Coaching Faculty

Organizational Consultant and Trainer

Consultant and trainer with nonprofits and organizations, including DNA works, Biomimicry for Social Innovation, and Littleglobe as well as a range of organizations, companies, universities and communities. Senior level integrative health coaching to founders, teams and leaders with a focus on somatics, creativity and mindfulness. Current focus on trauma informed work and JEDI (justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion) work with a focus on embodied (somatic)approaches to social justice.

Depth Facilitator

Depth and creative facilitator to a range of organizations and communities. Trainer of facilitators integrating contemplative and somatic practices. Currently developing training program curriculum with The University of Minnesota and Immergent.

William Corcoran Visiting Professor/Scholar in Arts and Community Engagement, George Washington University and Corcoran School of Art and Design, DC

Created new projects at intersections of participatory art/music, community organizing, social healing, and spirituality: Waking The Oracle and SOS Soul Station. Public presentations included:  Getting Real In the Cauldron of Creativity and The Undeniable Power of Music to Heal

Founding Director/Lead Trainer & Facilitator/Lead Composer, Lifesongs,Academy for the Love of Learning/Littleglobe/Santa Fe Opera, Santa Fe

Co-Founder and Founding Artistic Director of collaborative intergenerational arts, aging and hospice project involving elders from hospice, nursing home residents, poets, composers, instrumentalists, university choirs, youth and community members.  Program elements include school based forms, concerts, recordings, long-term partnership development in Northern New Mexico, public speaking, annual performances (Lensic and National Hispanic Cultural Center) and more.  

Co-Founder/Co-Artistic Director, Facilitator and Trainer, Institute for Living Story Academy for the Love of Learning, Santa Fe

Designed and led a wide-range of workshops, trained community members in creative leadership and depth facilitation.  Projects included The University of Wisconsin and The Dalai Lama, The Academy for Ethical Leadership, New Mexico based training in creative leadership for cultural leaders and more.  Co-designed and led the Creative Action Team and Institute for Living Story. 

Professor of Practice, Art & Ecology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

Taught wide range of arts and social engagement courses to interdisciplinary group of students including Environmental Storytelling, Creative Collaboration, Creative Leadership,  and Social Practice Lab. Participated in interdisciplinary creative community engagement projects and teams, research and writing projects.  Developed Creative Leadership master’s level program blueprint for The Center for Fine Arts.   Trained a range of student creative facilitators.

Founding Artistic Director & Co-Founder, Littleglobe, Santa Fe

Non-profit artist-activist collective consisting of diverse professional artists committed to collaborative and community-sourced interdisciplinary creative projects.  Projects include: new musical works, large-scale community healing projects, intermedia performance, film, video and installations. Created and directed a wide range of creative projects including individual, small team projects and large-scale community collaboration projects.  Recipient of of numerous commissions and residencies in the US and Europe. Taught and mentored creative facilitators and leaders from the southwest and beyond. www.littleglobe.org

Artist Lead, Facilitator, Workshop Designer

Created, facilitated and taught scores of workshops and master classes for universities, arts organizations, arts ensembles, health workers, schools, and community organizations.  Subjects include arts and community engagement with communities, improvisational choirs, creating ensemble, interdisciplinary creative process, expressive arts & community health, building creative community partnerships, and creating performance scores from everyday life.  Selected hosts include University of Cork, University of Limerick, Gilda’s Clubhouse, UNM, College of Santa Fe, Arts-In-Hospital (Glasgow, Scotland), Dance City (UK), The Santa Fe Opera and more.

Creator/Artistic Director, Littleglobe’s Common Ground: TOC project, rural NM

A multi-year community organizing, arts and social healing project with the village of Cuba, NM and the two neighboring Navajo communities of Torreon and Ojo Encino. 150 intergenerational participants from the communities created The Common Ground Festival, a unique expression of place, history and community vision in June, 2007.  They have since formed a community council and together with Littleglobe create a wide range of community projects.

Composer/Artistic Director-Creator/Performer/Ensemble Lead

Soundtrack composer, musical researcher, performer, recording artist and leader of several creative music ensembles.  Creative ensembles include BING and mJane ( Pax Recordings).  Created and performed a wide range of arts and social healing projects  including Crossings for The Creative Center ( NYC), Memorylines-Nuestros Jornadas, a community opera for Santa Fe Opera, NIGHT for The City of Evora, Portugal;  Moment for City of Cork, Ireland and The European Union Festival of Culture and many more.  Funders included MAP, The EU Festival of Culture,  Black Rock, United States Artist and many arts and health commission in the US and Europe. 

Artist-in-Residence, Santa Fe Opera Community Programs

Created new musical storytelling community-healing works with many intergenerational groups in New Mexico including schools, nursing homes, families, schools, universities and community groups.

Meditation Teacher and Wellbeing Coach

Founder of the Wesleyan University Yoga and Meditation program, yoga teacher trainer ( NYC, CA) mediation and mindfulness teacher with organizations, studios and retreat centers in the US and Ireland. Focus on support for youth and their caregivers, spiritual emergence and somatic trauma.