HIGHLIGHTS:

• Speaker Coach for Entrepreneurs’ Organization for multiple chapters from 2021 to present including their annual Alchemy event.

• Speaker and Performance Coach with Mia Tagano Coaching since 2016

• Voice of Lily in Disney/Pixar’s film, Turning Red -

  • including 2 years of weekly and bi-weekly scratch recordings in-studio during film realization.

• Role Play Consultant/Actor for Littler Mendelson’s harassment training videos and investigative training events in San Francisco, Alaska, Seattle, Portland, Las Vegas, Reno, Ft Worth and Kansas City (9 years+)

• Acting Teacher with American Conservatory Theatre Studio-ACT and SF Semester – SF, CA

• Acting Teacher with Berkeley Repertory Theatre · Berkeley, California

• Professional Actor 25 years –

• Member of Screen Actors Guild; American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (since 1999)

• Member of Actors Equity Association (since 1998)

• MFA in Theatre through the Professional Actor’s Training Program at the University of Washington

• Acting Highlights:

• Solo Show directed by Sir John Barton at the Camden People’s Theatre in London.

• Two years working with Pixar on scratch recordings in preparation for role in film, Turning Red

• 200 Shows at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in NYC

• Toured with Royal Shakespeare Company throughout the UK after 9-month rehearsal at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts

• Acting with Frances McDormand in Berkeley Rep’s production of Macbeth (Lady McDuff and Witch)

• Playing Zenocrate opposite Avery Brooks in DC’s Shakespeare Theatre’s production of Tamburlaine.

Continuing Professional Development (selected)

• 4 years of in-depth study with the late Angeles Arrien, author of The Four-Fold Way: Walking the Paths of the Warrior, Teacher, Healer, and Visionary - (included 4 vision quests)

• 3-day workshop with author/psychotherapist/healer, Resmaa Menakem, focusing on the work in his book, My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies - August 2023

• Master Coaching study with Robert Ellis, founder of Coaching from Essence, 2023

• Participation in multiple learning cohorts (Narrative Influence and Narrative Change) with Michael Margolis, founder of STORIED, Inc (2023 and 2024)

Professional Speaking and Instructional Experience

• Correspondence Coordinator; Interviewer; Writer; Social Media Coordinator; for DailyGood and Karmatube with ServiceSpace.org (10yrs)

• Opening Speaker and Anchor for Awakin Circles

• Group Voice and Movement facilitation for SS retreats

• Role Play Consultant/Actor with NITA: National Institute Trial Advocacy (3yrs)

• Teaching Artist over a 20-year period – working with youth and young adults in schools, community centers, arts centers, and theatres in Seattle, Ohio, DC, NYC, London, and the Bay Area

• Create/Co-lead workshop with SV Consultants entitled, Dare to Swear & Find Your Voice both in-person and virtually

• Create/Lead Voice Workshop for Women at Banyan Grove – including movement, breath awareness; voice/body/breath integration as well as writing to speaking exercises

• Invited to serve on the selection panel for the 2017-2018 McKnight Theater Artist Fellowship at the Playwright’s Center in Minneapolis where we chose and awarded 5 artists to receive $25K each.

• Acting Coach for Theatre Bay Area General Auditions

• Short story writer – published in Parabola Magazine and with DailyGood.org

• Co-Facilitator with Silicon Valley Alliance events

• Emcee Wildlife Associates Harvest Festival Fundraiser – 2 years consecutively

• Speaker for Bradford Business College giving 45-minute interactive speeches to Juniors and Seniors at high schools throughout Ohio