One of my favorite things about living far from home is the community I’ve found in New York. I love bringing people together, supporting the spaces I care about, and contributing wherever I can.

From 2025 to 2026, I co-organized ITP & Friends, a monthly event at Wonderville in Bushwick where creative technologists shared live-coded music, visuals, experiments, and works in progress in a friendly, low-pressure setting.

With Start Lighthouse, I helped build the organization’s inaugural Literary Residency Program at P.S. 214 in the Bronx. Our team transformed a neglected room into a functioning school library, scrubbing floors, painting walls, transporting and cataloguing books, arranging shelves, and helping turn an empty space into a welcoming home for reading and imagination.

I also volunteer as a teaching assistant and illustrator with 826NYC, where I support young writers as they experiment with language, develop their ideas, and discover confidence in their own voices. It is a community shaped by creativity, care, and connection, the same values that guide the work I make.

Seeing the students’ work featured on The Kelly Clarkson Show was a surreal and joyful reminder of how far a story can travel when someone is given the space and encouragement to tell it.

Pictures from ITP&Friends