Research

My research interests include: qualitative methodologies including research-creation and arts-based research; social justice and meaningful engagements with equity, diversity, and inclusion; mad studies, critical disability studies, disability justice and social justice; Mad art, disability-centered dance, and crip performance; Mad aesthetics, politics, and praxis; radical occupational therapy and therapeutic recreation; and trauma-informed practices that are intersectional, anti-pathologizing, anti-oppressive, and affirming.

​Art

My art practice includes Mad, disability, and crip performance, and integrated dance choreography. 

​Talks/Workshops

My talks and workshops often blend performance with educational material that works to shift our understandings and embodied relationships to disability, trauma, and mental distress.

​OT / Consulting

My OT and consulting work includes mobilizing dance and other artistic mediums to achieve self-determined personal goals, and to spark social change. I also conduct accessibility auditing, particularly in relation to artistic and cultural events and venues. I consult on how to make research, educational contexts and communities more equitable, diverse, and inclusive. I also consult on creating and implementing radical, accessible, and affirming trauma-informed practice in research, training and education, as well as artistic process and production contexts.

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I work to craft Mad-affirming and disability-affirming, accessible, intersectional, trauma-informed movement and performance communities. I do this by weaving my lived experience and professional practice with research-creation methodologies, as well as literature from Mad studies, critical disability studies, performance studies, and research on trauma-informed practice. My passions include teaching, choreographing, and performing disability-centered dance, Mad performance art, and crip video art. Over the past thirteen years I have presented research, performance, and workshops nationally and internationally, including in New York, Rennes (France), Seoul (South Korea), Toronto, Ottawa, and Montreal. I am the Programming Director of Solidance Inclusive Recreation Society, and a founder and former artistic director of iDANCE Edmonton Integrated Dance and CRIPSiE (the Collaborative Radically Integrated Performers Society in Edmonton). I am also a certified occupational therapist with over 20 years of specialized dance training, including training with leading integrated and disability dance practitioners around the world.