I am a dance artist and educator navigating spaces of individual and collective identity. I create work of kinesthetic narrative, derived from colliding multiplicities of physical effort, idiosyncrasy, and emotional landscape. My movement draws from trainings in modern, bharatanatyam, ballet, jazz, and ethnography. I am most interested in stories of transformation.

My choreographic work has been presented around the midwest, New York City, and the United Kingdom with grant support received from the Chicago Dancemakers Forum, Puffin Foundation, Links Hall, and the Chicago Cultural Center. Scholarly work has been presented at New York University and World Dance Alliance-Americas. In collaboration with Links Hall, I curated the Braiding Rivers Festival – a three-weekend performance series that brought together ten dance-theatre companies to showcase the significant voices of artists across the United States dialoguing with Indian dance forms.

I have taught on faculty at Columbia College Chicago, Northeastern Illinois University, Carthage College, Northwestern University, and Oklahoma State University.