For the last few years until the coronavirus pandemic, I taught weekly classes at Majestic Yoga Studio where I specialized in Restorative Yoga and Meditation, highlighting the link between rest, receptivity, and revolution. My practice sought to bring students in touch with the mystery and magic of their bodies through careful and sensitive awareness of the present moment.

I previously collaborated with MIT’s Media Lab to curate a collection of objects and installations highlighting the tender connection between technology and activism. I produced “Between the Magic and the Machine”, a group exhibition which sought to challenge the social and political status quo of breastfeeding and chestfeeding parents highlighted at the Make the Breast Pump Not Suck event and hackathon in 2018. I co-designed with pediatrician and artist Eva Zasloff an immersive installation featuring 2 feet tall floating orbs of light -- actual breastmilk ‘globules’ reflecting light at 750x magnification -- which glowed like distant stars. Surrounded by soft fabrics and the lull of a baby sleep sound machine, Reflections evoked a deep space-inspired dreamscape drawn from the microbiological dynamic between parent and child.

As part of my artistic practice exploring deep space with fashion, with my collaborator Rosa Weinberg I conceptualized and built the Stethosuit: a wearable bodice and headpiece that synchronize the body's inner soundscape with the cosmo's vibrations. The fuzzy gurgles of our digestive system blends with the fizzy pops of satellites traveling through ionized space. Using transmuted audio of Voyager 2's escaping our solar system, the garment harmonized naturally occurring micro and macro rhythms across enormous timescales. It debuted on the catwalk at re:publica in Berlin in 2017, and was installed at the MIT Media Lab as part of their space exploration event, Beyond the Cradle, in 2018.

Building on my critical framework of wearable tech, I’ve worked alongside artists and designers to create new exhibitions and co-lead research modules. I curated BODY POLITIC, a show at OPEN in Boston, MA, which deployed fictional garments from eleven artists to resist entrenched social power structures amid systemic oppression: sculptures, dresses, lipstick and a spacesuit depict alternately hopeful and bleak visions of a tech-enabled, "inclusive" future. Wanting to get closer to the source of ready-to-wear tech, I co-designed and led a winter term module, “Wear But Why” with Dr. Beth Altringer that took Harvard students to New York City to conduct field work with fashion designers. Through behind-the-scenes site visits and interviews, we helped students form questions and research what qualities make a wearable tech product desirable or undesirable.

Previously, I was the Wheatland Curatorial Fellow in Harvard’s History of Science department with the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments where I researched and developed the permanent exhibit for 1944's Mark-1, what some consider the world's first computer. I contributed to a range of shows in the history of science, including a retrospective on the Rorschach ink blots; chatbots and the history of artificial intelligence; and science pedagogy during the Cold War. I also created a collection of experimental and ethnographic short videos documenting life at hackerspaces and the scientific method, and have shown work at the Somerville Film Fest and Tribeca Hacks.

During the mid-aughts tech boom I lived and worked in Bangalore, India where I was hired as one of the first American employees at Infosys Technologies. While living in Bangalore I crafted international marketing campaigns and organized an annual tech conference for Infosys's global clients. I was tasked to redesign Infosys's office dress code for its 20,000 employees at its Bangalore headquarters, balancing the values of conservative executives and young women engineers -- and Eastern and Western aesthetics. I was also an early advocate within the Blank Noise Project, a community founded in 2006 in Bangalore to end street sexual harassment through social media campaigns and non-violent street demonstrations. During that time Blank Noise launched an international, ongoing project, "I never ask for it", which counteracts the narrative that a woman's clothes can be justified as an invitation for sexual harassment.

Education happens throughout life and in countless venues. I’m grateful to my many teachers, mentors, and guides over the last several decades across the world. Most recently, I completed my Tantra Meditation Teacher Training Level 1 with Tracee Stanley, and a 200 hour advanced Yoga and Mindfulness Training with Lindsay Gibson. Previously, I earned my master’s degree in the History of Science from Harvard University and my bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University.