publications + presentations
journal publications
Expressing the Inexpressible: The Impact of Art-Based Interventions on Teen Mental Health
Summer 2025
How the Fine Arts Create the Finest Students: A Design Thinking Study
April 2024
The Art of Inclusion: Theatre’s Contribution to Popular Culture Literacy for Students with Intellectual Disabilities
March 2024
Book Review of Pat in the City: My Life of Fashion, Style, and Breaking All the Rules by Patricia Field
September 2023
Review of Northern Exposure: A Cultural History
March 2023
book contributions
Curiosity, Risk-taking, Be Flexible, Playfulness & Humor, Visualize it Richly and Colorfully, Embrace Ambiguity, Mindfulness, Putting Ideas into Context. In: Cyndi Burnett and John Fitzgerald Cabra (eds.) Infusing Creative Thinking into Higher Education
2024
articles
OP-ED | Richmond’s Stages are Worth the Investment
July 2025
Applying Art Therapy to the Classroom
May 2023
Design Thinking as Art Therapy
January 2023
The Power of Theatre in Transforming Disability Culture
December 2022
5 Skills University Students Gain from Design Thinking
October 2022
Theatre as an Interdisciplinary Teaching Model
January 2022
small leaf press
The Changing “Male Gaze” in Western Fashion Culture
Jaden Magazine - November 2021
conference presentations
James River Writers Conference — Persisting: Navigating the Writing Life panel discussion in Richmond, VA (October 2023)
Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences — Examining the Role of Interdisciplinary Arts Courses in Liberal Arts Universities poster presentation at Oxford Brookes University in Oxford, United Kingdom (July 2023)
Management and Social Justice Conference — Arts Integration as a Teaching Tool to Facilitate Social Justice Conversations paper presentation at Parsons School of Design in New York, NY (April 2023)
International Conference on Food Studies — Imagining the Edible: Food, Creativity, and the Arts poster presentation at Marymount Manhattan College in New York, NY (October 2022) | Emerging Scholar Award recipient
James River Writers Conference — Procrastination and Goal-Setting panel discussion in Richmond, VA (October 2022)
International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities — Data, Media, Knowledge: Re-Considering Interdisciplinarity and the Digital Humanities themed virtual panel discussion at the University of the Aegean in Rhodes, Greece (June 2022) | Emerging Scholar Award recipient
2022 Southeastern Universities Graduate Research Symposium — Examining the Impact of Creative and Design Thinking on 21st-Century Skill Development in Higher Education poster presentation at the University of Alabama (March 2022)
2nd Annual Baylor Emerging Scholars Research Conference (BERC) — Remaining Relevant in a Changing World: Examining the Role of the Arts in Universities video presentation at Baylor University in Waco, TX (January 2022) — Ride the Elevator pitch finalist
2021 Southeastern Universities Graduate Research Symposium — An Evaluation of Interdisciplinary Strategic Design Efforts in Liberal Arts Education poster presentation at the University of Alabama (March 2021)