I’m a writer and educator interested in how stories help us understand care, connection, and change. My work brings together writing, research, and teaching to explore how narrative makes meaning of illness and loss, and how it can open spaces for empathy and reform.

Since 2023, I’ve been reshaped by profound loss. Losing my mother, my unborn child, and my sense of health in the span of a year taught me what the body carries, and how words can keep us from breaking. Writing became a survival tool, a way to ask better questions about how we fail to care for, and sometimes even harm, women in pain.

When I’m not writing, I’m an associate professor of communication studies at CUNY Kingsborough in Brooklyn, where I teach and research communication, embodiment, and story. I also lead narrative-medicine workshops for healthcare professionals, students, and caregivers, blending performance, storytelling, and reflection to help build trust and compassion in clinical spaces.

Across my writing, teaching, and facilitation, I return to the same questions: How do we carry what breaks us? What happens when we tell the truth about our pain? And how might story itself become a form of care?

I believe humor belongs in hard places.
I believe in questioning systems that silence people.
And I believe storytelling, at its best, reminds us we are not alone.