I lead interactive professional development trainings focused on effective communication, creativity, leadership presence, and team building.
I design and facilitate workshops for arts & education professionals, including the Miranda Family Fellows at The Public Theater and drama teachers across New York City.
I am also a regular facilitator with On Deck Workshops, a leadership consultancy where I have led workshops for diverse clients such as product designers at Intuit, engineers at Bloomberg, affinity groups at Adobe, UX designers Google, legal associates Covington & Burling, product solution teams at Flatiron Health, journalism students at UC Berkeley, and more.
My workshops are data-driven, rooted in findings from the field of organizational psychology, and inspired by the spirit of improvisational theatre.
Highlighted past projects
Self-advocacy workshop for theatre teachers
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In 2023, I created a workshop called “Advocating for Your Work through Creative Play” for NYC theatre teachers. This was an interactive, collaborative experience that used techniques grounded in improvisational theatre and personal storytelling to help participants practice articulating why they are uniquely qualified to do what it is they do. The workshop culminated in participants giving creative elevator pitches about their work and experiences. Since publishing this article, I have also led this workshop with several groups of educators in NYC and the Bay Area.
Communication workshops for new-hire engineers at Bloomberg
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As a workshop designer and facilitator for On Deck Workshops, I collaboratively created and led communication workshops for newly hired engineers at Bloomberg in NYC. Each workshop engaged 30-40 participants, and I trained approximately 500 engineers during my time working with Bloomberg.
These workshops allowed early-career engineers who were new to a large organization to practice building relationships, constructively collaborating, and projecting credibility and confidence.
Professional development at The Public Theatre
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I design and facilitate workshops with The Miranda Family Fellowship at The Public Theatre to help early-career theatre professionals from underrepresented backgrounds build the skills they need to succeed in the arts.
I care deeply about making the arts world more equitable and making careers in the arts more viable for young people from diverse backgrounds, which is what The Miranda Family Fellowship aims to do. In collaboration with Morganne Evans, Director of Workforce Development at The Public Theatre, I have created experiential workshops in which the Miranda Family Fellows practice communicating their unique stories and talents with confidence. These workshops are designed to combat the impostor syndrome that young people from historically marginalized backgrounds often experience when entering legacy arts institutions.
Educational Theatre Forum
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Wanting to create professional development and community-building opportunities for New York-based drama educators who might not have the funding to travel to larger conference, I collaborated with two of my fellow graduate students to host a local conference that was entirely free of charge. Approximately one hundred teaching artists, K-12 classroom teachers, and graduate students attended.
The Forum offered sixteen different workshops, panel discussions, and lectures covering topics including frameworks for incorporating equity into theatre classrooms, an introduction to clowning, using Laban Movement Analysis in directing musical theatre, and creating student theatre virtually during the pandemic in the Philippines.
The Forum provided valuable space for early career and experienced theatre educators from around New York City to connect. The attendees included current students studying educational theatre and related fields at NYU, Columbia, CUNY, and Barnard, as well as many practitioners currently working in the field.
View the virtual program for the Educational Theatre Forum here.
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