EDUCATION
University of Massachusetts Amherst — MFA, Visual Arts
Aug 2022 – May 2025
Focus in analog photography, interdisciplinary lens-based media, and alternative processes.
Graduate Teaching Assistantship; coursework in creative practice, arts education pedagogy and museum teaching.
University of Massachusetts Amherst — MFA, Visual Arts
Aug 2022 – May 2025
Focus in analog photography, interdisciplinary lens-based media, and alternative processes.
Graduate Teaching Assistantship; coursework in creative practice, arts education pedagogy and museum teaching.
Emory University, Atlanta, GA — BA, Film and Media Studies (High Honors)
Aug 2018 – May 2022
Concentration in Film and Media Management through Goizueta Business School. Photo-book thesis awarded High Honors.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Photography Instructor, In-Sight Photography Project, Brattleboro, VT
2025 – Present Teaching introductory photography to students age 11-18 at a non-profit photography school dedicated to ensuring all youth have access to opportunities to express creativity in the photographic arts.
2025 – Present Teaching introductory photography to students age 11-18 at a non-profit photography school dedicated to ensuring all youth have access to opportunities to express creativity in the photographic arts.
Instructor of Record, Department of Art, UMass Amherst
2022 – 2025
Designed and taught undergraduate courses: Introductory and Intermediate Darkroom Photography, Alternative Processes, and 2D Design
Upper School Photography Teacher, Phillips Academy Andover – Summer Program
Summer 2024, Summer 2025
Designed and taught intensive digital photography courses for rising high school students in a residential academic program
EXHIBITIONS
Solo Exhibition
Noise of Time, Herter Gallery, Amherst, MA — 2025 (Thesis Exhibition)
Group Exhibitions
UMass Amherst Animation Film Festival, Amherst, MA - 2025
Emerging Artists Showcase, Northampton Center for the Arts, MA — 2024
Re/vision, Looky Here, Greenfield, MA — 2024
[RE]tangled, Student Union Gallery, Amherst, MA — 2024
Record of Existence, Herter Gallery, Amherst, MA — 2023
Is Seeing Knowing?, Herter Gallery, Amherst, MA — 2022
RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Media Arts Technical Coordinator, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA
Jan – Jun 2026 Managed equipment circulation and creative technology support in the Harold F. Johnson Library and film/photo facilities in the Jerome Liebling Center. Served as member of the Five Colleges Repository Committee, supporting stewardship of Hampshire’s 16mm film collection.
Jan – Jun 2026 Managed equipment circulation and creative technology support in the Harold F. Johnson Library and film/photo facilities in the Jerome Liebling Center. Served as member of the Five Colleges Repository Committee, supporting stewardship of Hampshire’s 16mm film collection.
Eva Fierst Curatorial Fellow, University Museum of Contemporary Art (UMCA), Amherst, MA
2023 – 2024
Led a year-long curatorial fellowship project for Faint Hidden Shrouded (2024), participating in every stage of exhibition development from research and object selection through interpretive writing, installation, and de-installation.
Collections Assistant, UMCA, Amherst, MA
Feb 2023 – Aug 2023
Historical Interpreter, Paul Revere House, Boston, MA
May 2019 – Aug 2022
Led educational tours and interpretive programs for K–12 groups, families, adult visitors, and international audiences; Researched and wrote public-facing content on Boston’s North End history for the Revere House Gazette.
Feb 2023 – Aug 2023
Conducted condition assessments and safely handled, unframed, and rehoused artists’ books and fragile works on paper for storage, research, and exhibition.
Historical Interpreter, Paul Revere House, Boston, MA
May 2019 – Aug 2022
Led educational tours and interpretive programs for K–12 groups, families, adult visitors, and international audiences; Researched and wrote public-facing content on Boston’s North End history for the Revere House Gazette.
Assistant Archivist, Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archive, and Rare Book Library, Emory University
Sep 2018 – May 2022
Supported access to rare and sensitive archival materials in an institutional research setting through digitization, preservation, and exhibition support for newly acquired collections.
Sep 2018 – May 2022
Supported access to rare and sensitive archival materials in an institutional research setting through digitization, preservation, and exhibition support for newly acquired collections.
Festival Programmer, NYC Short Film Festival, Remote
Oct 2019 – May 2022
Reviewed and evaluated 1,000+ international short film submissions; contributed to programming and final screening selections.
Oct 2019 – May 2022
Reviewed and evaluated 1,000+ international short film submissions; contributed to programming and final screening selections.