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Work

2024-Present, Co-founder of The People’s Flower School, a therapeutic floral design collective facilitating Floral Therapy programs inside the Chesterfield County Jail

2024-Present, Psychotherapist, WHOA Behavioral Health

2013-Present, Freelance Floral Designer, Richmond, VA

2021-2024, Horticulture Instructor, Chesterfield County Adult Continuing Education, Chesterfield County Jail, Virginia

2021-2023, Abortion Doula,Virginia League for Planned Parenthood, Richmond, VA

2020, Sprout By Design, digital therapeutic horticulture curriculum design for youth incarcerated in juvenile detention, New York City

2020, Solitary Gardens program manager, New Orleans

2016-2020, Horticultural Therapist, Horticultural Society of New York, GreenHouse Program on Rikers Island

Education

2026 Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Virginia

2026-2027 Fellow, Psychoanalytic Fellowship Program, Contemporary Freudian Institute

2025-2026 Fellow, Psychoanalytic Fellowship Program, Contemporary Freudian Institute

2025-2026 Fellow, Psychoanalytic Fellowship Program, Washington- Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis

2024 Master of Social Work, Virginia Commonwealth University

2019 Certified Horticultural Therapist, New York Botanic Gardens

2011 Bachelor’s in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University

Exhibitions & Speaking Engagements

2026, Let’s Get Free: Ecologies of Care, Love, and Abolition, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA

2026, Everybody’s Right to Beautiful, Radiant Things: Horticultural Therapy in the Carceral Space, Lewis Ginter Winter Symposium

2025 Shadow of a Petal, Branch Museum of Design, Richmond, VA

Additional Internships, Trainings, and Volunteer Experience

2023-2024, Social Work Intern, Intrepid Hospice of Chester

2022-2023, Social Work Intern, Richmond Community Hospital, Behavioral Health Unit

2019, Trained EOL Doula, International End of Life Doula Association

2016-current, member, Mid-Atlantic Horticultural Therapy Network

2018-2020, member, American Horticultural Therapy Association

2013-2024,Volunteer, Intake Counselor and Practical Support Provider, Richmond Reproductive Freedom Project

2021-2022, member, The Richmond Doula Project

2021, Certificate of Horticulture-Landscaping, NOCTI

2020-2021, Hospice Trained; Remote Covid Support, Visiting Nurse Service of New York

2020, volunteer, New York City Books Through Bars

2018, Certificate in Mindfulness Practices for Vulnerable Youth, Lineage Project, 2018

2012-2014, volunteer, Magazines staffer, Bluestocking Bookstore & Activist Center

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