Music was my first language.

I began playing violin as a child and grew up immersed in the world of classical music. I studied with remarkable teachers, performed in orchestras and chamber ensembles, and learned to understand the world through sound long before I had the words for many of the things I was feeling. Music taught me how to listen, how to pay attention, and how to sit with complexity.

At the same time, I was drawn to questions that extended beyond the concert hall. For more than a decade, I worked in criminal justice reform and broader social justice advocacy, helping lead efforts to reduce incarceration, expand alternatives to detention, and advance more equitable public policy.

It was meaningful work that placed me in constant conversation with systems: how they are built, who they serve, what they conceal, and how difficult they can be to change.

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Throughout those years, music remained a parallel current. I continued performing, writing, recording, and collaborating, often finding that the questions animating my advocacy work were not so different from the questions emerging in my art. Again and again, I found myself returning to the same themes: memory, power, belonging, loss, hope, and the stories people tell to make sense of the world around them.

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Today my work lives at the intersection of classical music, independent songwriting, film, movement, and visual art. Some projects begin with a violin. Others begin with a landscape, a question, or an image I can't quite let go of. Whatever form they take, I am interested in perception: how we make meaning, what we choose to notice, what remains hidden, and how familiar things change when viewed from another angle.

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Alongside my interdisciplinary work, I continue to perform as a violinist in both classical and contemporary settings. Over the years I have appeared with ensembles including the Charlottesville Symphony, the Puget Sound Symphony Orchestra, and the Seattle Rock Orchestra, while also performing, recording, and touring with indie bands and cross-genre collaborations. My original music has been recognized by the International Songwriting Competition, the International Acoustic Music Awards, and the One World Music Awards, and I am a voting member of the Recording Academy.

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These days, I make my home in California's Coachella Valley, where the desert has become an unexpected collaborator. The landscape's vastness, silence, and geological timescales continually remind me how small a single life is—and how connected we are to forces much larger than ourselves.

If there is a common thread running through everything I create, it is a belief that understanding rarely arrives all at once. More often, it emerges through layers, revisions, and returns. Through listening. Through paying attention. Through the willingness to look again.