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
