- Homestead Alliance Knoxville TN 2026
- Old City Market Knoxville TN 2025
- Boomtown Arts & Heritage Festival Asheville NC 2025
- Chattanooga Holiday Market Knoxville TN 2025
- Ijams Nature Park Hummingbird Festival Knoxville TN 2025
- Dogwood Arts Emerging Makers Knoxville TN 2025
- Art Struck Festival Johnson City TN 2025
- Ceramics at Boys and Girls Club Of Meigs TN 2024
- Pottery Teacher Teens Special Needs @ Oakridge High School 2023-24
- Lavender Festival Oakridge TN 2024
- Appalachian Arts Craft Center Clinton TN 2024
- Old City Market Knoxville TN 2023
- Market Square Farmers Market Knoxville TN 2023-2024
- Great Smoky Mountain Hot Air Balloon Festival TN 2024
- Boomtown Arts & Heritage Festival Asheville NC 2024
- Spring Faery Festival Knoxville TN 2024
- Kids Art Teacher Knoxville Museum of Art 2024
- Post and Beam TN 2023
- New Harvest Park Farmers Market Knoxville TN 2023
- Clay Teacher for Children at Nourish Knoxville's Winter Market Oakridge TN
- New Harvest Farmer's Market Knoxville TN 2023
- Sees Thru Trees Home Studio Knoxville TN Established 2022
- Webster Arts ‘Reentry’ jury exhibit Webster Grove MO 2021
- MVA Gallery ‘Nature Landscape Serene and Savage’ jury exhibit Bethlehem PA 2021
- Art Fluent ‘Connections’ online jury exhibit 2021
- Hawai`i Island Art Alliance ‘Abstract Only! 10th Anniversary’ jury exhibit Hilo Hi 2020
- Mānoa Horizons 2019 undergraduate journal University of Hawai`i Mānoa gifted & talented education case study publication | editorial artist statement | cover art and throughout
- University of Hawai`i Maui College exhibitor 2014-2017
- Soka Gakkai Buddhist Learning Center murals Wailuku HI 2014-2016
- K.I.R.C. Mural Kihei Charter Elementary 7th & 8th gades Kihei HI 2015
- Hui No`eau Visual Arts Center business technology internship | website design | catalog photographer | auction exhibitor works sold Maui HI 2015
- Na Leo Student Journal University of Hawai`i Maui College poetry publications | invitational speaker release party 2015
- Neshoba Unitarian Universalist Church 'The Soul of Creativity' invitational speaker | nursery murals | mentor | exhibitor | auction art works sold Cordova TN 2002-2009
- Chickasaw Elementary School solo commission murals main entry halls Olive Branch MS 2007
- Exchange Club Family Center ‘Boxes of Hopes and Dreams’ auction works sold Memphis TN 2006
- Job Teen Services 20th Anniversary & Metropolitan Inter-Faith Association solo mural-logo Memphis TN 2004
- 'Venus Envy' Exhibitor Memphis TN 2004
- Mpact Memphis & Estival Place project leader collaborative mural Memphis TN 2003
- The H.A.R.T. Center solo & group shows Memphis TN 2002
- 'Venus Envy' Promotions Coordinator Memphis TN 2002
- Republic Coffee House ‘Some Like It Hot!’ grand opening group exhibit & ‘The Soul of Creativity’ solo exhibit Memphis TN 2001
- St. Jude Children's Research Hospital 'Art Impact Murals' Memphis TN 2000-2001
- MTV Executive Suites ‘I Candy’ 6-month solo exhibit NY NY 2001
- ‘Tha Movement New Year's EVEnt’ Exhibit Co-Sponsored by Mpact Memphis | Gamut Magazine | Butler St. Bizarre group exhibitor Memphis TN 2001
- Nodanuff Productions with Angst Pictures ‘Nighthawk's Café’ anatomy renderings movie props St. Louis MO 2001
- 'Race for the Cure' Warriors in Pink djembe drumming performance Memphis TN 2001
- Memphis Symphony League & Mpact Memphis ‘High Heels & Hard Hats Gala Auction’ works sold Memphis TN 2001
- Art Farm ‘Summer Harvest’ exhibitor Memphis TN 2000
- Urban Arts Commissions and Shelby County Board of Commissions 'Shelby County Art Across the Ages Vital Series’ project developer oil renditions workshop 2000-2002 Memphis TN
- Memphis Botanic Garden ‘Arts in the Park ~ Arts in Medicine’ jury exhibit sponsored by Smith & Nephews | oil painting 'Hope for Healing' stolen and never recovered from exhibit TN 2000
EDUCATION
- B.A. Psychology | University of Hawai`i Mānoa 2019
- A.A. Liberal Arts | University of Hawai`i Maui College 2017
- A.A.S. Business Technology | University of Hawai`i Maui College 2015
- H.S.D. Mount Saint Dominic’s Academy | Caldwell NJ 1987
HONOR SOCIETIES
- Golden Key International Honor Society at UH Mānoa
- Pi Gamma Mu Honor Society at UH Mānoa
- Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society at UH Maui College
AWARDS & SCHOLARSHIPS
- Isamu Shinshiro Fund for Sustainable Technology UH Maui College
- UH Maui College Academic Scholarships & Dean's List
- Sheldon Negrod Memorial Scholarship Essex County Junior Miss Piano Instrumentalist NJ
- Adlawan and Heritage Endowed Scholarship UH Maui College
STIPEND INTERNSHIPS | FEDERAL WORK STUDIES | EMPLOYMENT
- Operations and Maintenance UH Maui College Federal Work Study | Managed campus-wide re-key project 2016 – 2017 created and maintained databases and hard copy files | worked with security department issuing keys | read and updated blueprints | evaluated physical building sites | excel, MS word, apple, android systems | cut keys and organized key locker | aided director and other staff with administrative tasks | attended staff meetings and security briefings
- Music Department at UH Maui College Federal Work Study | Administrative Assistant 2016 – 2017 Hawaiian music preservation project for institute of Hawaiian music | scanned 800+ original sheets of music with lyrics for archives | organized expansive hard-copy music file library | MS word, excel, mac systems and mailing procedures
- Veteran’s Resource Center UH Maui College Federal Work Study | Administrator & Tutor 2014 – 2016 aided veterans applying for federal funds | offered technological and academic tutoring for veteran and non-veteran students | offered peer and advocacy support services for veteran and non-veteran students
- Hui No`eau Visual Arts Center Business Technology Internship UH Maui College 2015 Weebly website construction and design for art auction | primary auction catalog photographer | auction organizer | retrieved artworks from various locations | received and processed entries | auction exhibitor two works sold
- Department of Planning County of Maui 225-hour Stipend Internship with UH Maui College 2014 electronically filed government and public documents in kiva database | edit, format, mail or deliver hundreds of agency transmittals and permit applications for directors and planners in short-term planning | distributed transmittals and applications to county, federal and misc agencies | e-mail and in-person delivery | answer department phone calls and refer public to staff | address public walk-ins and process incoming documents | computer mail-logging procedures | maintain hard copy records | operate industrial scanner | printer, fax, computer and phone systems | monitor meeting schedules | attend staff meetings & briefings | in response to denial of funding testified in support of continued funding for stipend internships, at Maui County through co-op program at Maui College, with an appeal letter to council members which resulted in a 50% retrieval of funding for the co-op business internship program at UH Maui College | completed internship 4.0 GPA
- ReVive Boutique for Women Helping Women Maui | Volunteer & Sales Associate 2013 - 2015 aided women and children in transit from shelter supplying donated items for their new residencies | helped prepare women for applying to job positions with proper attire and grooming | offered support and advocacy services for women and children | managed cash register and bank deposits | managed donated items cleaning, sorting, pricing, displaying | promotions coordinator | designed flyers | managed social media accounts | organized fundraisers | trained new volunteers and employees
- Hawaiian National Coalition Against Domestic Violence four certifications completed and attended staff meetings and debriefings
CERTIFICATIONS
- C.C. Mediation Services Maui HI
- C.C. Visual Arts at UH Maui College
- C.E. Pai Kamana Student Support Services UH Maui College
- C.C. National Hawai`i Coalition Against Domestic Violence
- C.C. Soka Gakkai International Buddhist Community Center Service Learning Early Childhood Education UH Maui College
SPECIAL INTERESTS
- ceramics home studio
- teaching art
- oil painting
- beading & jewelry design
- murals
- mentoring
- guitar & ukulele
- writing
- psychology
- cooking
- hiking, biking, swimming & pickle ball
RECENT UNIVERSITY COURSEWORK COMPLETED
- design for print & web
- web page construction & marketing
- desktop publishing
- managerial business writing
- business math
- accounting
- records management
- sustainable science management
- sustainable island community
- Hawaiian studies cultural practices & language
- Hawaiian center of pacific studies
- statistics I & II
- interpersonal communication
- supervision & management
- excel spreadsheets
- advanced documents processing
- integrated office procedures
- conflict management & resolution
- survey of medical sociology
- foundations of disability & diversity
- accessible learning technology
- research methods
- learning & motivation | early childhood education, family, community
- early childhood education | health, safety, nutrition
- speech & language development
- social psychology advanced topics
- social development of children
- developmental psychology
- the exceptional child
- abnormal psychology
- health psychology
- psychology of emotion
- clinical psychology
- survey of psychology
- creative writing
- ceramics I & II
- oil painting
- visual arts
- music in world cultures
- contemporary performance recording & guitar